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I could have killed āem all, I could kill you. In town, youāre the law. Out here, itās me. Donāt push it. Donāt push it, or Iāll give you a war you wonāt believe. Let it go. Let it go.
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Quick Recap before we go on. Oh, and SPOILERS right up top!
John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) is a Vietnam vet wandering through Washington State, until coming upon the town of Hope, run by the Sheriff Will Teasle (Brian Dennehy).
Sheriff Will Teasle is an absolute dick who arrests Rambo for no real reason; just for being aĀ ādrifter.ā His police force, which includes the sadistic Galt (Jack Starrett) and sympathetic Mitch (David Caruso, AKA Horatio Caine from CSI: Miami), beats John Rambo, and post-2020 me is UNCOMFORTABLE!!!!!!!
Rambo has Vietnam flashbacks (like you do) and escapes the prison, pursued by the obsessive and dickish Sheriff and his equally dickish men (except for Horatio, maybe).
Galt tries to shoot Rambo, and karma bitch-slaps him RIGHT in the face, holy shit. He dies, and Rambo is blamed and shot at, escaping into the forest.
OK?
OK. On with the recap!
At this point, all of Ramboās actions are in self-defense. In truth, itās been self-defense since the beginning. However, he does kill two dogs, so...yeah, canāt really justify that. That sucks. The dogās handler gets shot by Rambo, who now has a gun, and we also see that Galtās certified sociopathy has leaked into everybody else but Horatio upon his death, including the dog guy, who tells his dogs to straight up kill Rambo. But, as previously stated...thatās not what happens.
At this point, I should introduce the amemedala.
The amemedala is a portion of the mesencephalon (or midbrain) discovered in the brains of millennials and younger individuals, recently discovered, named, and made up by yours truly. This area, attached to the thalamus, acts as a relay center between the cerebrum and the various sensory receptors of the body, similar to the function of the thalamus. However, while the thalamus governs the broad relay of senses to the appropriate areas of the brain for analysis, the amemedala relays appropriate sensory signals to the frontal lobes, where catalogs of shared sociological trends, or memes, are housed. This relay and association generates connections between extrenal stimuli, and entries in the meme catalog of the frontal lobes. While this is technically an autonomic process, it can be suppressed with enough willpower.
Why am I ringing this up in the middle of First Blood? Because EVERY. SINGLE. CELL of my brain is working to suppress the amemedala right now. Why? BECAUSE OF THE LORAX, AND FOR WHOM HE SPEAKS.
Is it an outdated meme? Very much so. BUT I CANNOT GET IT OUT OF MY GODDAMN HEAD AS I WATCH THIS MOVIE.
OK. That is now out of my system. Anyway, Rambo continues to speak for the trees, which is understandably starting to spook the smalltown cops. This leads to the VERY surprising moment where a camouflaged Rambo appears OUT OF NOWHERE and stabs Horatio in the goddamn leg! Like, wow, he was invisible! I had to rewind the film to see where he was. This is tense...and awesome, not gonna lie. This is awesome.
And then, he gets another cop by JUMPING FROM A TREE. Well, a tree stump, BUT STILL. After he takes him out, he stands in plain sight in front of an approaching cop. That cop, subscribing once again to the shoot-first-ask-questions-later policy, fires. And I SWEAR, Rambo is FASTER THAN THOSE SPEEDING BULLETS, as he dodges out of the way, and the bullets HIT THE COP HE JUST TOOK OUT!
And then, when I didnāt think this could get any more intense, that cop triggers a booby trap, and A STICK WITH WOODEN SPIKES GOES THROUGH THIS MANāS LEGS, AND HEāS SPEARED LIKE A KEBAB OH MY GOD
The asshole sheriff runs to the NEW set of panicked screams, and his compatriot is just Batman-ed away by Rambo. Itās just the sheriff, now. The storm is building, and the forest is getting darker. The sheriff frees leg-spike cop, and goes to find the other cop, whoās been PINNED TO A TREE LIKE A BUTTERFLY IN A DISPLAY CASE. See, look!
HOLY SHIT ITāS RAMBO WITH A KNIFE IN THE FOREST. He pins the sheriff up to a tree, then with some legitimately badass lines, threatens with the sheriff with āa war [he] wouldnāt believe,ā and telling him to make like Elsa andā¦
I love this sequence. It is the most intense, crazy, holy shit sequence Iāve seen so far this month. Wow. I understand why people talk about this movie. Man, that was a hell of a ride! Good movie, though. All right, so, time for the final sco-
Oh. Oh, my God. Iām only HALFWAY INTO THE MOVIE?
...Wow. OK, then.
We now meet Colonel Sam Trautman, Ramboās commander in the Green Berets. Heās come to āget his boy.ā He says that he came to rescue the Sheriffās dumb ass from Rambo, rather than the other way around. And the Sheriff is...an idiot. Heās an ass, heās a maniac, and heās a stubborn idiot. Even after learning that Rambo is the best, heās unwilling to back down, the dummkopf.
Rambo kills a wild boar in the woods, which makes no sense for Washington State, but whatever, sure. Anyway, they try to get the colonel to lure Rambo out, even though thatās obviously gonna make his PTSD, just...SO much worse. Especially as he starts using Vietnam parlance in contacting him. Not gonna end well, guys. But itās then that we learn that Rambo is now the last surviving member of his unit, contributing to his trauma. Ramboās also been trying to get in contact with the Colonel, winding up here because he has no place to go. He says that there are no friendly civilians, and the troubleās been caused by that āking-shitā cop. I will be using this term from now on.
Wow. Damn. Hell of a reason for that title. And I think I love this movie. Seriously, Iām having a good time.
King-Shit Cop keeps going ahead with his absolute idiocy, despite all warnings to the contrary. So, a bunch of troops now converge upon Ramboās place, but he naturally opens fire on them, without killing a single person. In fact, he hasnāt killed anyone this whole movie, and they make a point of saying that heās been holding back the whole time. So, they decide to use the next, most logical course of action. They FIRE A ROCKET AT HIM.
Afterwards, the Colonel and King Shit Cop catch up at a bar, where the latter exposes his full sociopathy, commenting that he just wanted to kill Rambo. This is opposed to the Colonel, who doesnāt really know what heād do if Rambo survived.
Which, of course, he did. Cāmon, you think a little military-grade propelled explosive is gonna kill John Rambo? Nah. Heās the best there ever was, and heās gonna prove it now. He jumps into a military vehicle holding an M-60, and hijacks it. Doesnāt take long for the news to break that Ramboās still kicking, and heās quickly intercepted by King Shit Cop, who JUST. DOESNāT. KNOW. WHEN. TO QUIT. And Iād admire his tenacity if he wasnāt SUCH AN ASSHOLE.
The cops try to run Rambo and the truck of the road, and he plays the UNO Reverse Card on them instead. And Iām pretty sure at this pointā¦
...that old Johnny boyās just killed some cops. So, yeah, now thereās a bigger problem. He powers through the State Police blockade like it was a banner blocking a football team, stops at a gas station, grabs the gun from the car, and LIGHTS ALL OF THAT SHIT ON FIRE! Destroying the livelihood of an individual who had nothing to do with this.
Yeah, Ramboās starting to turn from innocent acting in self-defense to public menace REAL quick. And yeah, itās King Shit Copās fault entirely...but, yeah, Johnny needs some help, because heās losing the train at this point. But, not to be outdone, King Shit Cop is also beginning to lose it, and itās definitely beginning to seem like only one of them is going to come out of this alive. And the Colonel tries to give him an out, but King Shit Copās prepared to go down with the ship that he blew a hole in in the first place. Like an asshole.
But here we go, the finale. John Rambo vs. King Shit Cop (whose name, by the way, is Will Teasle. I just like Ramboās name for him better). KSCās on the roof, Ramboās on the street. Rambo causes more property damage, possibly because banks also give him PTSD (I joke, but PTSD is no laughing matter, John clearly needs help), and then finds his way to a store that has just all of the ammo a psychologically-damaged Vietnam War veteran on a revenge quest could ever need.
And then he BLOWS. THAT. SHIT. UP.
And he does this...ALL of this...just to lure KSC out of hiding. This man DESTROYS A TOWN because this idiot, sociopathic, unhinged, King Shit Cop, wonāt just STAND. THE FUCK. DOWN ALREADY.
Rambo enters the police station, where KSC is on the roof. And, like the Colonel and the rest of us guessed, KSC gets shot in the process. And as Rambo stands over KSC, the Colonel finally shows up and does what literally everybody else should have done.
Talk. He just...talks to Rambo. He talks to this mentally ill man, and that mentally ill man responds, espousing his pure anger at the war, the public, protesters, work, the country, the town, himself...everyone. And goddamn, is that shit palpable.
This man can no longer fit in the world that he was forced to leave, and forced to return to. This poor, poor, poor man. It hurts. And it sucks. And he pours his heart out to the Colonel, and to us, and...you feel it. You feel his trauma, you feel his pain. You feel the aftermath of war. And itās been seven years at this point for the Colonel, but no time for John. Not Rambo. John. And itās just...never over.
Damn. Goddamn.
This...this is one hell of a good movie. And not just a good action movie, either. A damn good movie.
