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.
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Grew up with the original Red Dawn. This remake isn't a let down. The speaches during the movie give me chills. Robert yelling Wolverines is classic!!!
This is pretty much the original without the subtleness, the top-notch acting of Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey, and the fantastic dialogue.
Putting up a defense of the original 1983 Red Dawn may embroil you in controversy, but defending the remake might make people think you just took a sharp blow to the head. In an era of remakes and sequels and remakes of sequels, The new Red Dawn just shows Hollywood's creative gas tank close to empty. It's just another a big, soulless military shoot-em-up adventure that will be forgotten by most everyone as soon as the end credits role. I can't believe how much I missed Patrick Swayze after seeing this.If you had a problem with the premise of the first one, it's best not to get involved in this. You could make a case in the Cold War days of the early '80s for a Soviet invasion of America. People did talk about that in those days, and the government planned for that contingency (sorry folks, they did do that). But you really can't say that in 2012 about the Chinese or the North Koreans , or whoever these guys are supposed to be. The Chinese have never shown an ability or desire to project power outside of their own sphere, and the North Koreans barely have enough gas to drive to Seoul, let alone invade the US mainland. It's just not on the political radar, and for that reason alone, this just doesn't make sense.
(Originally seen a few years ago) I have yet to see the original but I'm guessing it's one hundred times better than this pile of absolute garbage. Chris Hemsworth was never a good actor, he does the bare minimum as Thor, and yet he is somehow noticeably awful here, he stands around a lot and says "Here's what we should do", and when he's not doing that he's arguing with his dim-witted brother or shooting the invaders. The rest of the cast who are mostly unknown are dreadful here, they should stay unknown. God-awful action sequences, and awful everything. This piece of garbage is completely unwatchable, and another noisy, braindead piece of tripe that deserves it's place on the worst films of the decade. 0/10
