Picking Nits
Mud and tree-climbing continuity; quick trap and boar; local cops running the manhunt; Teasle not recognizing a veteran; using the walkie-talkie; convenient supplies; timeline since Vietnam; day-night continuity
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- The stake trap was built very quickly and the boar was dealt with fast; this was on the Picking Nits list.
- Rambo is covered in mud one moment and not the next, and somehow scales a 15-foot tree.
- The local cops keep running the manhunt though nearly all are hospitalized; a state cop yields to Teasle when the FBI would take over.
- Teasle, an army veteran, should have recognized Rambo's veteran jacket.
- Rambo is too smart to answer the walkie-talkie when he hears Crenna.
- Whatever Rambo needs turns up conveniently, such as gasoline on the third try and the one Army truck carrying the weapon he needs.
- If set around 1981, what was he doing for six years since the war? Setting it around 1977 would make more sense.
- Not quite a nit: Rambo's refusal to kill innocents is his flaw, since killing the Jeep driver would let him escape.
- Day and night flip within the last 20 minutes; as a filmmaker, those are spots where long-cut scenes were lost, and color correction could not fix it then.