Review of Rescue Dawn (2007) by Peter P — 14 Oct 2010
This seems to be one of Herzogs more conventional efforts. Christian Bale shines in this film and once again commits to his role by sacrificing a large portion of his body mass for his characters manourished look.
The story is cliche in parts but Bales performance manages to pull it through with his characters resilliance through the escape to surviving in the Vietnam jungle. All this makes the ingredients of a decent film, but it just did not blow me away for some reason.
Also, the awful gung ho ending ruined the film some more.
This review of Rescue Dawn (2007) was written by Peter P on 14 Oct 2010.
Rescue Dawn has generally received positive reviews.
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