The initial Red Dawn movie was released in 1984 as a part
of the US propaganda movie in the Reagan era Cold War era. It had tried to
depict the fighting spirit held within the Americans. But the movie looked very
dated and at times silly back then, and now there are hardly many people
watching it. So, me and my friends (Mr. Oak
and Mr. Phoenix) could not grasp why
Dan Bradley decided to make a remake of this film? One of my action movie crazy
Forex trading friends watched this
movie and he told me that the movie was good. For once I fell for the trap and
decided to watch this movie with Mr. Phoenix.
It was one of the worst mistakes of my life!
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| Mark Brewer's Review |
If the initial film was unimpressive, then the remake made
no sense at all. Dan Bradley and his screenplay writers made a film out of
nothing. If Russia was the villain in the initial film then North Koreans
became the villains in this movie. The director and his screenplay writers
tried to mingle patriotism with the temperament of the teens. As the story
progresses, US marine Jed Eckert (Chris Hemsworth of “Thor” fame) visit his
native city of Spokane and has a few brief encounters with his rude teenaged
brother Matt. All of a sudden North Koreans land in Spokane riding their
parachutes, they take the city and kill Jed’s father. The motives behind this
sudden are not known throughout the movie. Why North Koreans chose to attack
Spokane, an insignificant town from all views is also not revealed in the film.
However, Jed along with his brother and other teenagers
flees to the woods. He trains the novices to become junior Rambos almost
overnight and then they start Guerrilla warfare against the invading North
Koreans in order to take back their land. The group names themselves Wolverines
after the local high school team. There are various skirmishes along the way.
The story is highly unrealistic and there are too many
loose ends. Only good thing about this movie is use of urban warfare tactics.
Red Dawn is a forgettable film and I (Mark Brewer) feel that there should be
a certain amount of thought put in when a film is remade.
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