Red Dawn

Pros: Attention to detail, taut script, believable acting from young cast.
Cons: Defies logic at times.

In 1984, just as the Presidential campaign between then-President Reagan and Walter Mondale was getting underway, MGM-United Artists released director John Milius' ultimate "Cold War gone hot" action-adventure film, Red Dawn. Written by ...

Pros:

good acting, some decent story elements

Cons:

one-dimensional villains, doesn't seem relevant any longer

Movies often become dated, that rsquo;s just a fact. This is especially true when movie intertwine themselves with a current political climate or world situation and try to project a possible future. At times, even though they are dated, they are ...

Pros: Great vehicle mock ups, interesting cast.
Cons: Far fetched at times.

The world was a very different place in 1984, when John Milius’ Red Dawn was released, than it is today. Back in those days the threats of communism, the Soviet Union, and nuclear holocaust were very real ones. This context is very important ...

Pros: Entertaining if ultimately flawed and over-long
Cons: Not nearly outrageous enough to be over-the-top entertaining

God bless the eighties, where you could get away with completely over the top jingoistic melodrama like this with a reasonably straight face. Stuff like Rambo II, Invasion USA and the John Milius (he of Conan The Barbarian fame) film Red ...

Pros: Interesting intro to future stars, historical cold war paranoia, now a classic
Cons: Dated to 1984, unlikely, time, attenuated subplots, gory, too many times on TV

You have seen this movie a hundred times on TNT (with commercials, and editing) but it might be worth an hour or so to watch it again, without distractions.

Directed by John Milius, the same guy that gave us the original CONAN movie and the...

Pros: Fun action flick. Nifty Sov-Bloc hardware simulations. Lea Thompson shooting that DSK.
Cons: Light-weight. Weak acting. Dated. The "Top Gun" problem.

Back in the day there used to be something called the Cold War. It was what President Kennedy called a "long twilight struggle" between the Forces of Light (us) and the Bad People (for the most part headquartered in Moscow). To the extent there was any ...

Pros: Super realism for the time it was made.
Cons: Was not long enough.

I remember lazy afternoons in English class, looking out the windows at the football field and dreaming that camoflauge parachutes were falling all over it with Cuban and Russian soldiers setting up fighting positions and getting me out of class for,...

Pros: Great portrayal of courage, bonding. Lots of action
Cons: None

Yeah, I know it never happened, but this movie gave a great portrayal of the way things could have been had it happened. Even better, instead of hiring one over-priced star to be the main hero of the whole movie, who single-handedly defeats the whole...

Pros: Energetic young cast
Cons: Bad script, laughable acting

Movies like this are the reason Communism never should have fallen. It was only back in the first Reagan administration that an unabashedly patriotic and wholeheartedly stupid anti-Russky movie like Red Dawn could have been made. That’s not to say it’s...

Pros: Early movie for Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen.
Cons: Ridiculous plot and situations, one-dimensional characters.

I saw "Red Dawn" in 1984 when it was released in the theaters, and I was underwhelmed by the movie, and startled, and nearly shocked, by the reactions of the audiences to it. "Red Dawn" was able to do what few movies have done...

Pros: Great cast, great action, good fun
Cons: None!

Red Dawn is one of the best 80's cold war action movies ever made. There were so many 'the Russians are the bad guys' kind of movie out then, and this one is the best.

Red Dawn begins with a classroom full of kids when all of a sudden men in...

Pros: First rate Cold War propaganda film,overall absurdity gives it camp value
Cons: Absurdly unrealistic

The premise of this 1984 film is simple. NATO dissolves, Central America goes communist, the U.S. is invaded by Soviet lead forces from Mexico, a group of high school kids played by future big name actors takes to the hills and they become partisans....

Pros: Symbol of America, cool plot.
Cons: Could be considered a little Cheesy.

This is such a great movie. This is worth your time so you should see it. There is so much action involved in it. I think it is one of those things where you ask yourself as a college student what would I do? It is a classic movie about the United ...

Pros: young actors before their time, good action
Cons: predictable ending

Okay, I'll admit that this was one of my favorite movies of all time back in the day.  Swayze, Sheen, C Thomas Howell, Jennifer Gray, and a few others play high school students that escape into the hills and forest when the Russians invade their ...

Pros: GREAT beginning for several actors
Cons: acting was a little overdone in parts

This movie was an 80's classic. Even though it wasn't one of the most popular ones, it became a cult classic to most who have seen it. One thing that is particularly fun about this movie is that most of the actors in this flick were brand new, or fairly...