Red Dawn: Blu Ray Review
Rating: M
Released by Roadshow Home Entertainment
A remake of the 1984 film starring Patrick Swayze and C Thomas Howell, this latest Red Dawn brings contemporary fears to life - particularly given what's currently going on in the world.
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When North Korea invades America, a group of teenagers escape, holing up in the woods. But it just so happens that US Marine Jed Eckert (Chris Hemsworth) is back on leave and is able to train the teens into some kind of guerilla force to try and save the day as well as stave off the invasion.Red Dawn is an action film which feels surprisingly tame and with a threat that is, frankly, unfortunately laughable in many ways. A lack of context for the invasion gives it an odd feeling but the bonding between the teens (including the inevitable tensions and conflicts) does little to add to the situation. Throw in one character's drive to get back his girlfriend who's become a prisoner of war and you've got the gamut as the bullets and explosions fly all around.
It does feel like an Americanisation of Tomorrow, When The War Began (particularly with the Aussie actors scattered throughout) and while it's solidly made and the action sequences hang together reasonably well, the overall feeling is somewhat disjointed as the East once again takes on the West, with very few serious casualties.
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