Red Dawn Reviews
Birmingham Mail
Ridiculously violent for the certificate and wholly implausible in its set up, Red Dawn is the kind of gung-ho action thriller for people with sawdust for brains.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Fan The Fire
In the wake of the Oscars, we have an early contender for worst film of the year.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Observer [UK]
It is a foolish, ill-considered undertaking, the unexpected topicality of which makes it all the sillier.
Digital Spy
This dismal remake of the overrated '80s cult flick is littered with the type of nausea-inducing patriotic dialogue lampooned by the likes of Team America: World Police.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Cinema Crazed
While it does have its inherent flaws, it proves to be much better than the original...
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| Original Score: 3/4
The List
The action is generally well-staged, although watching teenagers building car bombs and cracking jokes about Call Of Duty feels like something to be endured rather than enjoyed.
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| Original Score: 2/5
What Culture
Hollywood's cynicism knows no bounds. They're now remaking bad movies too.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
Sun Online
From its doomsday narrative and tired action set pieces, Red Dawn represents the lowest common denominator of dumb action movies.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Guardian [UK]
This has to be the year's most pointless remake: a boring and badly acted reboot of John Milius's gung-ho red-scare actioner from 1984.
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| Original Score: 1/5
The Skinny
The enemy may have changed, but the same fatuous paranoia, flag-fluttering patriotism, and flimsy grip on international politics remains.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Little White Lies
With any luck this will be the spanner that finally jams up the works of Hollywood's dangerously overcranked '80s remake Wurlitzer.
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| Original Score: 1/5
HeyUGuys
You're constantly asking yourself 'Will it matter if I leave half-way through this film?"?!
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| Original Score: 1/5
Sky Movies
The concept is, undeniably, ridiculous, and the plotholes plentiful if one cares to look hard enough. But Red Dawn zips along at such a pace it's hard to notice.
Empire Magazine
Long-delayed. Arguably not long enough.
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| Original Score: 1/5
We Got This Covered
Dan Bradley's Red Dawn does a fine job distancing itself from the original, but while doing so becomes a mostly mindless action picture with a rather shallow message.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Total Film
The doltish, messy and frequently incoherent result bears all the hallmarks of a botched and compromised endeavour.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Sci-Fi Movie Page
It's rubbish . . . and its sheer chutzpah makes it insulting as well!
3AW
Unfortunately unexciting remake of the 1984 junk-culture cult classic about a bunch of American teens who fight back after America is invaded by Communists. Yes, Communists... This could have been fun.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
As idiotic as its inspiration, but it lacks the live-free-or-die integrity that 'Zen anarchist' John Milius brought to the original production.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Atlantic City Weekly
Unfortunately, post-9/11, an invasion seems more plausible than it did in 1984.
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| Original Score: 2/4
