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Absolutely Brilliant!

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Based on what I have read about the actual truth behind this mans story, this film is very inaccurate. It shows a few truths of what happened to him but compared to what I read, he seems to live a life of luxury in this film. The reality was a lot harsher and he was treated a lot worse. Finally, it always makes me laugh how Americans think they won the Vietnam war.

When I settled in to watch "Rescue Dawn", I was ready for a terse, taut treatise on being captured behind enemy lines during the Vietnam War. What I got instead was a ham-acted, goofy-themed war flick that I struggled to get through.For a basic plot summary, "Rescue Dawn" tells the real-life story of pilot Dieter Dengler (Christian Bale) being shot down and captured at the very beginning of the Vietnam War.The most glaring problem with this film is that the tone is completely wrong for a war flick (based on a true story or not). Dengler is never without a goofy smile on his face, he doesn't seem to respond to emotional situations, and towards the end he seems to forget everything he had previously experienced. Thus, there is a total lack of drama throughout the production. I even found some of the scenes bordering on offensive considering their portrayal of the U.S. Military.It doesn't help that the usually-incredible Christian Bale is given such a barren role/script to work with. One could easily say this is his "worst role ever", but I think it's only because the whole shebang is a mess and never really gets into any meaty drama or emotional material that actually requires acting.Overall, I believe that director Werner Herzog really screwed this one up. It is (up to this point) the worst "war film" I have ever seen.

A U.S. fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War. Rescue Dawn packs 2 great leading performances by Christian Bale (The Dark Knight Trilogy) and Steve Zahn (Speak) but although it's based upon a true story i didn't feel that much of energy as other films of this genre like Hacksaw Ridge or even Lone Survivor and i understand that the film was meant to be like this have a lot of long conversations and try to showcase upon these 2 men to try escape from that village that they were taken hostage but i honestly believe that a bit more action would have made it much better but that doesn't mean that the film was bad it was very well shot and edited and Christian Bale was really good here as i already said now my second flaw with the movie was that the plane crush sequence looked horrible with cgi effects that look like they came out of an 80's film but overall Rescue Dawn is a great true story film about a man that wants to escape and go back home and for that i'm going to give it an 7.3 out of 10!!!

What a perplexingly weird movie. What makes it even weirder is, it's based on a real person and event. Typically if a movie is based around a real event, the movie goes for more of a realism type approach, but I'm not sure what the the movie was trying to achieve? Did they not want to depress the audience, so they decided to cover this story in a way that the audience wouldn't have to be emotionally impacted by it? Where to begin? When Dieter (Christian Bale) gets captured and brought to the leader (not sure the leaders title). His demeanor was that of a US teenager in Europe for spring break or at least the way movies like to portray American teens over seas. Cocky, like the world owes them something and just immature, whereas I can't imagine anyone in a situation where they were captured acting like that. It gets weirder as it goes into the various torture thing they do to Dieter... it's done in more of a comedic way, rather than upsetting. The fact that it's based on a real person makes me think that no, and someone completely dropped the ball and if I had to guess that someone was Christian Bale. As if he was incapable of playing this role and it came out in more of a dark comedic style. And they went a little over board with the insanity part of it. Then when is friend gets his head hacked off, it's not a sad moment and it isn't sad for Dieter either. Anyways, I give up trying to figure this movie out. It felt as though the movie was on anti depressants.... no emotion whatsoever in reference to things that should have been really upsetting.