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3.0 out of 5 stars
What If?,
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This review is from: Red Dawn (VHS Tape)
What if Communist Russians invade the United States? Teens from America's heartland take on the Reds as guerrilla fighters in this fairytale action-war movie. This seems like a plot that somebody made up for a High School short story. Not a bad cast, which includes Patrick Swayze, Lea Thompson, Ben Johnson, Charlie Sheen, Powers Boothe and Harry Dean Stanton, make the film interesting but John Milius' direction is very pedestrian.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Red Dumb,
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This review is from: Red Dawn (Widescreen/Full Screen) (DVD)
This is one of those nonsensical flicks where the villians are depicted at first as being so incredibly competent they can invade America and come within a hairsbreadth of conquering us, but then, they can't find a bunch of sullen, surly and absolutely moronic children. Even when the kids stoll into town for a visit!Here's the plot: Godless, murderous, commie Cuban paratroopers invade a Western farming community during WWIII in order to machine gun a history teacher, so a bunch of monosyllabic jocks take to the mountains to drink deer blood and become heroic freedom fighters. Patrick Swayze bullies himself into the lead over the wimpy intellectual (wait, that's redundant) in the group, and pretty soon the kids are calling themselves the "Wolverines" and wiping out Soviet armor columns. Eventually, Powers Booth parachutes in to help them and tell them how we should've listened to the John Birch Society and nuked the Russkies years ago. The characterizations are marginal at best- all Commies are the purest evil (the only thing missing is "Ve haff vays off makink you talk!"), anyone who's remotely intelligent is a traitor, and anyone with a vocabulary of less than 10 words is heroic and manly- including Jennifer Grey. I was willing to meet Milius half-way on this movie- grant him the whole invasion thing and the Commies as the bad guys, especially given the era in which this movie was made- but then he goes out of his way to load this flick with outrageous anti-intellectualism and neo-fascism until the whole thing collapses under the weight of mindless jingoistic pandering. Okay, I'm out of ways to describe just how wrong-headed and misguided this laughably amateurish movie is. Hey- John Milius! In the future, stay away from politics, man! For that matter, stay away from filmmaking.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good Action Movie,
By Bruce J. Wallwin (Peoria, AZ United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Red Dawn (Widescreen/Full Screen) (DVD)
Wow, reading most of the reviews here you would think instead of reading a reivew of a "fictious" movie on Amazon.com you were on some liberal undergrould anti-Regan website. I suppose that this is the only place that you lib's and Regan haters can get your voices heard. If you would like a serious debate or conversation about Regan there are may places you can go, but you don't want to be there because you have no way of supporting your vision.Anyway. This is a very good action movie. Many stars of today are presented here and they do a good job and help make the movie enjoyable.
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