Rescue Dawn film about a pilot flying secret missions over laos before the vietnam war, gets shot down and taken POW, its about his escape as you would expect. overall it was a decent film, starts off a bit soft which is to be expected with its 12a rating, it had the makings of a really mint film if only it was harsher, you never get the feeling the guards are that much of a cunt as you would expect. once the escape plan builds up it gets better. ends quite well too. theres a couple of daft bits like throwing their guns away os theyre heavy, this despite the fact theirs cong all over and the ak could have went round his back and im sure the sks has a strap aswell. pros, decent enough story, characters are ok and the acting overall is quite decent, running tim is decent so you get your moneys worth and its never too boring even the 2nd half during the jungle scenes negs, direction was a bit soft purely down to the age rating restrictions, few daft bits in it that wouldnt make sense but thats purely a common sense thing,and some attempted humour that falls on its are and ruins any tention that was being built. 7/10
i thought age restriction was set after the film was made? a going to see this next week i think, cheers for the headsup.
Chris Bale is one commited actor like, he loves to puch himself to the limit. Thought this was alright, not as good as I was expecting...the plane crash was cannie...it's not a bad film...good acting...though the camp part dragged a bit. 6 machete's to the leg out of 10
it's set afterwards but they edit and direct it to try and acheive a certain rating. I'm surprised with a film like this they'd try to get a 12a rating like:spangled:
yeah when i watrch a film about a prison camp i wanna see hardship toil and retribution, not wise cracks and half arsed brutality
where's the realism in "right, we're going to torture you the the edge of death..... nicely, so that the BFCB dont complain"
It could of been alot better this like. Like Lee said it was too soft and should of been really brutal. I liked the colour of the whole film though. It was like old 60's footage of vietnam you see. Christian Bale must have some naughty stretch marks from gaining and losing weight all the time.
and what a sweet bottom it is. aye the colours are good infact the whole cinematograpy is good just editorial softness and a blatent lack of feeling lets is down.
