Naturally I opted to check out this 2025 movie titled "Desert Dawn" as I was given the chance. It was a movie that I hadn't even heard about, so I didn't know what I was in for, aside from it being an action crime thriller. So I suppose that director Marty Murray had every possibility to entertain me with this movie.
However, for an action crime thriller, "Desert Dawn" was frightfully devoid of most of those things. I am not sure what writers Chad Law, Johnny Walters and Art Camacho set out to accomplish, but the script that they churned out proved slow paced, rather uneventful and at times downright dull to sit through.
There were a couple of familiar faces on the cast list, with the likes of Cam Gigandet, Chad Michael Collins and Mike Ferguson. The acting performances in the movie were actually fair, despite the fact that the script was rubbish.
There is a bit of action in the movie, at least, but it was nowhere sufficient to make up for the lack of a properly entertaining or interesting storyline.
If you enjoy action crime thrillers, then I would suggest you invest your effort, money and time elsewhere, because "Desert Dawn" was a dud.
My rating of director Marty Murray's 2025 movie "Desert Dawn" lands on a generous three out of ten stars.
