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Red Dawn (1984)

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21:00-23:20 Sat 5th Sep 2009 140m
Virgin 1

Synopsis

A small band of American teenagers wages guerrilla warfare against Russian and Cuban troops staging an invasion of their small town in a ludicrously gung-ho fantasy from director John Milius, who co-wrote the script with regular Kevin Costner collaborator Kevin Reynolds. Some of Hollywood's finest - including Patrick Swayze, Powers Boothe and Ben Johnson - struggle with highly unconvincing dialogue to justify the bombastic militarism, and the result is a scrambled action adventure smothered by political and dramatic insensitivity. Get caught up in the mock heroics, by all means, but take everything else - especially Milius's preaching - with a huge pinch of salt.