Though critical reviews were mixed throughout the original trilogy, the movies are regarded as cult classics among audiences.

While action star Sylvester Stallone's onscreen exploits as John Rambo are fictionalized, the famous character was based on a very real person.

First Blood marked Stallone's inaugural Rambo film. It premiered in 1982 and was based on a novel by David Morrell of the same name. However, the movie took a different direction from the written ...

FEW action movie heroes are as iconic as Rambo, the titular character of an entire franchise of films that has spanned from the 1980s to the present day. With that, all sorts of claims have been ...