
The city of Spokane, Washington is awakened by a North Korean paratrooper invasion. Marine Corps veteran Jed Eckert and his civilian brother, Matt, escape with a group of friends to an isolated cabin in the woods, where they witness the execution of their father at the hands of the ruthless Captain Cho. The brothers unite with their friends to form a guerrilla resistance group--the Wolverines--to drive the invaders from their home.... (Full plot summary below)
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The city of Spokane, Washington is awakened by a North Korean paratrooper invasion. Marine Corps veteran Jed Eckert and his civilian brother, Matt, escape with a group of friends to an isolated cabin in the woods, where they witness the execution of their father at the hands of the ruthless Captain Cho. The brothers unite with their friends to form a guerrilla resistance group--the Wolverines--to drive the invaders from their home.
Leave your thoughts about Red Dawn.
| Boston HeraldJames Verniere'Hot Tub Time Machine,' here we go again. |
| BeliefnetNell MinowMGM looked at the original formula and decided that if it was going to upgrade just one ingredient, it would be the quality of the explosions. |
| Detroit NewsTom LongNorth Koreans? Falling from the sky? Seriously? |
| Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallAfter a while all you notice are the head-slapping moments, like an odd bit of product placement when in the midst of street warfare a Subway store is open for brisk business, with the Wolverines grabbing cold cuts and cheese. |
| RedEyeMatt PaisIt's not saying much that the new Red Dawn is better, but it is. By quite a bit. |
| About.comRebecca MurrayIt's highly unlikely that 30 years from now anyone will be looking back with fondness on this 2012 release. |
| EricDSnider.comEric D. SniderAs stupid as the original, yet modernized to include the Subway product placement that today's audiences crave. |
| NECNErick WeberShockingly tolerable and surprisingly entertaining. |
| Reeling ReviewsRobin CliffordThe [Dan] Bradley "Red Dawn" plays more like an extended video game. |
| VarietyJoe LeydonDespite the considerable impediment of a premise arguably even sillier than that of the original "Red Dawn," helmer Dan Bradley's long-delayed remake of John Milius' 1984 kids-vs.-Commies adventure delivers enough thrilling action sequences and rock-'em, sock-'em fantasy-fulfillment to amp its B.O. potential. |