Um grupo de adolescentes está tentando salvar sua cidade de uma invasão de soldados norte-coreanos.Um grupo de adolescentes está tentando salvar sua cidade de uma invasão de soldados norte-coreanos.Um grupo de adolescentes está tentando salvar sua cidade de uma invasão de soldados norte-coreanos.
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Despite scrupulously reconstructed battles and partisan raids, it military thesis is patently ridiculous. Exciting , entertaining and moving movie about an absurd invasion for invasion US that threatens American economic prosperity . The picture concerns a dangerous international terrorist army trying to destroy United States via some continued series of terrorist operations . It's a pulp movie of political war genre ; resulting to be quite bemusing . The history deals with cruel Korean soldiers causing destruction and panic , versus American patriots who fight strongly to vanquish them.
This is a routine and passable actioner, stars Chris Hemsworth as U. S. Marine Jed Eckert, resulting go be one of the best roles he'd made to date , as he's nice as tough, cold, stubborn soldier. He's well accompanied by a good cast of young newcomers who'll follow decent film careers, such as: Josh Peck, Josh Hutcherson, Adrianne Palicki, Isabel Lucas, Connor Cruise, Alyssa Diaz, Edwin Hodge, Will Yun Lee playing a nasty , ominous korean villain and veterans as Brett Cullen, Michael Beach and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
It's a predictable , shallow and brainless film though will appeal to warlike enthusiasts because of it contains some excellent action sequences . An agreeable and entertaining film, but the plot is almost ridiculous and senseless but it's developed in fast moving and numerous surprises and that's why it is amusing enough.
This paranoia-political-thriller movie has precedent in those films of the 50s and 60s in which take place fantastic invasion on America as ¨Sinister invasion or Invasion USA (1952)¨ by Alfred E Green and ¨Battle beneath the earth¨(1967) by Montomery Tully . The motion picture takes part of a genre which in the 80s achieved splendor, thus : ¨Red Dawn¨( by John Milius with Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe Tom Cruise) , US Invasion (by Joseph Zito with Chuck Norris) and ¨Amerika¨ ( by Donald Wyre with Kris Kristofferson) where the communists -Russkies generally- execute invasion on America.
The film was mediocrely shot by Don Bradley, without any originality, being his only film as a director . Bradley is a stuntsman and stunt coordinator who has worked in a lot of films. Bradley was originally cast as Jason Voorhees in Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part 1986), however after only a few days of shooting, he was replaced by C. J. Graham, some of his footage remains in the film, as he plays Jason during the paint balling sequence. Rating Red Dawn. 5/10 . Passable but mediocre reboot.
Just by looking at him is annoying.
Enough has already been said in previous reviews about the wildly idiotic plot and lazy directing. Rather get the 1984 version. At least it had some heart in it, though the plot was just as ludicrous, playing on the strange fear of communism America has always fostered.
One more thing! Modern movies (this one being no exception) way overuse the lazy technique of compressing together various sorts of character growth sequences into a few minutes. It's very annoying and shows a lack of skill on everyones part.
No I'm going to focus more on the huge failures in basic logic and basic film making the new 'Red Dawn' makes.
Of course this is a remake of the 80s Reagan era classic about an American everytown invaded by communist troops. The only escapees of the high school massacre opening scene become survivalists in the deep woods and become insurgent freedom fighters calling themselves "The Wolverines." In this sense 'Red Dawn' is true to the original plot.
The first major flaw is high school students (all in their early thirties) awaking to poorly animated CGI airplanes dropping CGI paratroopers. These are some of the worst FX in recent memory. How difficult and basic is it to simply dress some stuntmen in military fatigues and film them parachuting? The did it in the first film just fine! The second, which many fans were already groaning over was that red China threatened a boycott not only of this but all of the studios films from ever being released in there, if the Chinese were portrayed as the communist invaders. Hence we're stuck with North Korea as the villains.
In an opening montage a sarcastic reporter asks, "What are they building a army this large for?" The logical guess would be that North Korea is still officially at war with South Korea, but 'Red Dawn' would have us believe they're secretly planning to invade the American West Coast? There is also some dispute as to how much of the film was made prior to villains' nationality change. Some rumors state the actors were actually filmed speaking Mandarin and had to be dubbed speaking Korean. It's unclear from the released footage.
Third, much like 'V For Vendetta' Hollywood also seems to have forgotten why communism is evil. In one ridiculous scene the Wolverines rob a Subway restaurant for its fresh bread and meat. See this is why communism doesn't work, the people are too poor to have things like fresh food. HOW THE FXXX would a communist Subway have fresh food? This is why it took decades for McDonald's to open its Moscow location. Because communists don't understand basic principles like farms delivering food to restraints. This isn't so much an insult to the intelligence of the audience as it is to the film makers.
There are various other plot holes, such as the blonde love interest (Isabel Lucas) being held as a political prisoner. "She's a survivor. I'm sure she's fine," the Wolverines reassure each other. Yes, certainly the invading troops wouldn't be using a gorgeous blonde teenager for gang rape or anything. As you may recall in the original Jennifer Grey and Lea Thompson were both gang rape victims.
Another flaw is the Wolverines driving into the woods and looking for a radio. Certainly one of the three cars they drove in would have had a radio.
All in all the new 'Red Dawn' isn't that bad. It just strips most of the emotional scenes we loved from the original and turns a bold premise into a 90 minute shoot'm up flick.
Hemsworth was solid as usual, Josh Hutcherson wasn't bad, Friday Night Lights girls was good...although she was overly dramatic towards the end... and Isabel Lucas was a total smoke show like she usually is.
But Peck made every scene he was in seem like a horrible high school play or a really bad acting class where the students are trying to "out drama" one another.
Also, the ending of this movie was stupid as heck. At least the original movie gave us some closure and let us know the outcome of the resistance and the war.
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- CuriosidadesThe film was shot and completed in 2009, and originally scheduled for release on November 24, 2010. It was shelved for almost two years, due to MGM's financial troubles.
- Erros de gravaçãoAn EMP-style weapon fried all electronics, but they seem to have a working cell phone.
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Jed Eckert: I'm going to fight. I'm going to fight. Now, this is easier for me because I'm used to it. The rest of you are gonna have a tougher choice. Look, I don't want to sell it to you; it's too ugly for that. It's ugly, and it's hard. But when you're fighting in your own backyard, and you're fighting for your family, it all hurts a little less and it makes a little more sense. And for them, this is just some place, but for us? This is our home.
- ConexõesFeatured in WatchMojo: Another Top 10 Worst Hollywood Remakes (2012)
- Trilhas sonorasOakland University Fight Song
Written by Michael Mitchell
Performed by The Oakland University Golden Grizzlies Band
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- Orçamento
- US$ 65.000.000 (estimativa)
- Faturamento bruto nos EUA e Canadá
- US$ 44.806.783
- Fim de semana de estreia nos EUA e Canadá
- US$ 14.276.668
- 25 de nov. de 2012
- Faturamento bruto mundial
- US$ 50.950.296
- Tempo de duração
- 1 h 33 min(93 min)
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- 2.35 : 1