Red Dawn Reviews
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
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.
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
jackiekcooper.com
Has enough patriotic fervor to draw in audiences once word of mouth gets around.
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| Original Score: 6/10
7M Pictures
Red Dawn isn't a particularly good film... but it is entertaining. As an exploitative remake of an exploitative flick from the 80s, it's still fun to watch.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Suite101.com
A technically proficient, matinee time-waster, but not the palpable, clammy-palmed geopolitical nightmare that could have been. It trades not on current U.S. anxieties, but the bankability its stars acquired as the film languished on studio shelves.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Not as gloriously cheesy, or gritty, as the original, but still a good little low-rent action flick.
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| Original Score: B
Nerdist
...actually more entertaining than the 1984 original... though that isn't saying a lot.
DustinPutman.com
Viewers willing to check their brains at the door and go along for the ride will find it a suitably exciting, if not exactly tougher or smarter, version of subject matter that is timely in an entirely different way than it was nearly thirty years ago.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
RedEye
It's not saying much that the new Red Dawn is better, but it is. By quite a bit.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Bullz-Eye.com
Red Dawn is far from perfect, [but] it's a crowd-pleasing action flick that does John Milius' original movie justice.
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| Original Score: 3/5
NECN
Shockingly tolerable and surprisingly entertaining.
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| Original Score: B-
Top CriticBattle scenes are infused with a propulsive sense of urgency, as Bradley (a vet stunt coordinator and second unit director) often achieves an effective semi-documentary look.
Film School Rejects
Ultimately, Red Dawn is a fun film that knows enough not to try to be anything it's not. Most of the cast is solid, the action is good, and there's a nice sprinkling of legitimately funny moments throughout.
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| Original Score: B
CraveOnline
I'm just hoping it does well so I can pitch my own sequel, Fred Dawn, where terrorists take over Fantastic Fest and I take them out one by one and save the day... Perfectly good fun.
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| Original Score: 7 out of 10
The Playlist
Stands well enough on its own as an efficient, exciting tale of teenage insurgency.
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
