Red Dawn

2012
PG-13
1h 33m

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5.3/10

82K

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A group of teenagers look to save their town from an invasion of North Korean soldiers.A group of teenagers look to save their town from an invasion of North Korean soldiers.A group of teenagers look to save their town from an invasion of North Korean soldiers.

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IMDb RATING

5.3/10

82K

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Awards
- 1 win & 4 nominations

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Trivia
The encoded messages on Radio Free America are identical to those in the original Red Dawn (1984).

Goofs
An EMP-style weapon fried all electronics, but they seem to have a working cell phone.

Quotes
Jed Eckert: I'm going to fight. I'm going to fight. Now, this is easier for me because I'm used to it. The rest of you are gonna have a tougher choice. Look, I don't want to sell it to you; it's too ugly for that. It's ugly, and it's hard. But when you're fighting in your own backyard, and you're fighting for your family, it all hurts a little less and it makes a little more sense. And for them, this is just some place, but for us? This is our home.

Connections
Featured in WatchMojo: Another Top 10 Worst Hollywood Remakes (2012)

Soundtracks
Oakland University Fight Song
Written by Michael Mitchell
Performed by The Oakland University Golden Grizzlies Band

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2/10

The acting... is painfully bad

And I'm mostly talking about Josh Peck... if a better actor had played his role I think the movie could have been saved.

Hemsworth was solid as usual, Josh Hutcherson wasn't bad, Friday Night Lights girls was good...although she was overly dramatic towards the end... and Isabel Lucas was a total smoke show like she usually is.

But Peck made every scene he was in seem like a horrible high school play or a really bad acting class where the students are trying to "out drama" one another.

Also, the ending of this movie was stupid as heck. At least the original movie gave us some closure and let us know the outcome of the resistance and the war.