Based on 100 votes and 31 reviews.
loved it
Good amount of action. The two "twists" towards the end and the ending itself leave something to be desired. Good acting and good story line. Just good overall.
I was going to give it 4 stars but I thought all the actors really Do deserve oscars for their perfomances! Especially the 2 "brothers". I Don't like war movies but this was more of a defend your country at home movie. I wish there would be a sequel! But instead of a sequel, they should've did the ending, where they show if the "Koreans" went back to their country or not.
finally saw RD in hopes of finding redeeming depictions of who's INCLUDED as good-guys as part of Wolverines young homeland rebel defenders. NONE. Only one odd East-Asian American, born here, got to play a peculiar US Marine (1 of 3 older adult Marines), clearly East-Asian looking BUT named SMITH. Ironic Obscurity. WHY NOT add few stereotypes going negative-to-positive: e.g. a local-born Chinese food delivery boy delivers Chow Mein and a few semi-automatic weapons (act of heroism) to the Wolverines and later gets caught and executed? Why NO Chinatown seems to exists in Red Dawn West-Coast America to draw such characters from!? how odd! Opp wasted even if imperfect
RED DAWN is an injustice to open minded whites who are receptive to East-Asians born in the West. RD needs a MAJOR rewrite; it LEGITIMATELY missed a big opportunity. Why bar East-Asian American/Canadian 'born here' peers as side-by-side FRIENDS? Where are we? Are we invisible? Does it mean White folks here NEVER have CLOSE East-Asian friends? But just East-Asian friends they keep at the outer most fringes as mere 'acquaintances'? Ashamed to associate closer? Why? Did USA Hollywood's brainwashing in last 100 yrs work so well, that NOBODY here can imagine an East-Asian American/Canadian local born 'hero/ally/lead' visible likeable/(dare i say, loveable) 'friend' (barely even a side-kick status
PROOF: The only reason Im going to see red dawn is cause there's sexy ass guys running around with guns killing Asians my type of movie ;) ! wendy gomez<3 2012-Nov-20
Why can't they leave the classics alone?
complete waste of time
most don't know Red Dawn was made about demonizing (Commie Reds) China invading America (uncharacteristic of China knowing the way they think). I'm sick of this, since I have ethnic roots there but born and bullied/shunned/mocked here. so, instead, they photoshop the entire movie with North Korean signage. fail. I'm looking at every character in the movie, and MISSING are East-Asian 'friends' (positive peers 'born here too') which seem to be ABSENT from most Hollywood movies. this only perpetuates hatred for 'chinks' (boo, we don't like slant eyed [expletives deleted]) sad.
The Chinese I could see invading America. But the North Koreans? Come on. They can't even feed themselves.