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It's Friday Night Lights territory, but without good writing or acting.
Mary F. Pols, TIME Magazine
Red Dawn
Welcome to the Home of the Brave
2012 · 1h 33m · PG-13
Action, Thriller
Directed by
Dan Bradley
Overview
A city in Washington state awakens to the surreal sight of foreign paratroopers dropping from the sky—shockingly, the U.S. has been invaded and their hometown is the initial target. Quickly and without warning, the citizens find themselves prisoners and their town under enemy occupation. Determined to fight back, a group of young patriots seek refuge in the surrounding woods, training and reorganizing themselves into a guerrilla group of fighters.
Director and cast
- Dan Bradley Director
- Chris Hemsworth as Jed Eckert
- Josh Hutcherson as Robert Kitner
- Isabel Lucas as Erica Martin
- Adrianne Palicki as Toni Walsh
- Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Col. Andy Tanner
- Edwin Hodge as Danny
- Michael Beach as Mayor Jenkins
- Connor Cruise as Daryl Jenkins
- Alyssa Diaz as Julie
- Matt Gerald as Hodges
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
13%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Red Dawn suffers from a number of serious problems. The first, and most obvious, is that this is mini-series material compressed into a 95-minute movie.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
Rotten
Take that, screaming North Koreans with no agenda!
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
Rotten
Preposterously insincere ...
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Rotten
John Milius's 1984 cult classic about American teens battling a Soviet invasion has been reinvented as a Tea Party wet dream that offers a scathing (if completely illogical) indictment of the federal government.
Drew Hunt, Chicago Reader
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