Hated Crenna in this. He seemed to spend the whole movie constantly warning Dennehy about Rambo, his skills, his abilities etc in a very over-dramatic fashion.
Even his entrance with the line " I made him" is over the top.
But also lines like " You don't seem to know what you're dealing with", and especially the line about sending a good supply of body bags.
Maybe its not all Crenna's fault, his dialogue is very silly. But Crenna seemed to go foe a very hammy delivery of the script, and not at all realistic.
Dennehy was superb though.
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enriquesingh (1771)
3 years ago
It was the 80s!
Crenna I believe was a very last minute replacement, had to be fed his lines.
I believe the original actor was Kirk Douglas who wanted a more prominent role and wanted Rambo to die.
Years later he ran into Sly and they had a laugh about First Blood (I believe this happened between Rambo 3 and 4), he told him something like you would have lost a lot of money if you had agreed to my ending, *but* artistically I am still right, you should have died at the end of the first movie.
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