Rescue Dawn Werner Herzog Digital Life DVD

Rescue Dawn
starring: Christian Bale, Steve Zahn, Jeremy Davies
directed by: Werner Herzog

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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: RESCUE DAWN - WIDESCREEN (DVD MOVIE)
EAN: 0027616093578
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: MGM Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: MGM Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 20, 2007
Running Time: 125 minutes
Sales Rank: 238
Studio: MGM Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: July 27, 2007

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Real-life story of a US fighter pilot Dengler shot down and captured during the Vietnam War. Christian Bale as Dengler plans a death-defying escape.System Requirements:Run time: 126 MinutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/MILITARY & WAR Rating: PG-13 UPC: 027616093578 Manufacturer No: M109357

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In the tradition of The Great Escape and The Deer Hunter, Rescue Dawn is Werner Herzog's take on the pulse-pounding POW genre. Unlike most such efforts, however, his isn't just based on a true story, it's a remake of his 1997 documentary Little Dieter Needs to Fly. German-born Dieter Dengler (Christian Bale, who first made his mark in Steven Spielberg’s prison camp drama Empire of the Sun) has longed to pilot a plane since he was a boy. When he joins the Navy during the Vietnam War, he gets his wish. Then he's shot down over Laos. Though he survives, Dengler is captured by the Pathet Lao. Through his internment, he meets Duane Martin (Steve Zahn in his finest performance), with whom he becomes fast friends. While Dengler is arrogant and resourceful, Martin is patient and humble. With Dengler's assistance, the prisoners escape, but the untamed wilderness turns out to be just as dangerous (cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger ably captures its cruel beauty). Those who've seen Little Dieter know how this tale ends. Suffice to say, Herzog's reenactment makes for rousing entertainment. If the film has a flaw, it's that the rah-rah finale plays like something from out of a mainstream sports movie. That quibble aside, the actors, including Jeremy Davies as a delusional campmate and Toby Huss as a fellow flyer, are aces. And Herzog, who's been concentrating on nonfiction, like Grizzly Man, proves he can direct a Hollywood-style action epic with the best of 'em. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

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- Excellent
It's been quite a few years since Werner Herzog did a major fictive film. The last couple of decades has seen an increasing veer into documentaries and more experimental cinema. However, with 2007 film, Rescue Dawn, Herzog shows that the years have not taken their all too inexorable toll on the visionary mind. While the film is not an inarguably great masterpiece along the lines of some of his classic fictive films from the 1970s, it is a terrific war film, but, more so, a terrific prison escape and action film, even as it wholly subverts many of those subgenre's worst banalities.
The film is sometimes an expansion, condensation, and retelling of the same basic tale Herzog told in his classic 1997 documentary Little Dieter Needs To Fly. That film chronicled the life and capture, over Laos, of a German born U.S. Navy Pilot named Dieter Dengler, who spent six months as a prisoner of war in Laos, before escaping ... Read More

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- Just Missed 5 Stars
This is a great movie. The story is amazing, the movie is very realistic and it puts you right in place. The only problem I had with the movie which made it miss 5-stars was that the directing is a little different. Not bad, but different. Didn't really care for the directing...

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- Great
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- I never received my item!
I have never received the video Rescue Dawn that I ordered. It has been almost two months. I am not very happy with my service!
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