red dawn start like any other day in a small colorado town and however the normal tranquillity be soon shattered when russian soldier parachute out of the sky and start kill everyone . in a systematic coordinate attack right across america start in mexico ally soviet and cuban force have invade the u and world war iii have begin . brother jed ( patrick swayze ) and matt eckert ( charlie sheen ) along with several of their high school buddy manage to escape the initial invasion and make it to the relative safety of the colorado mountain . with no option but to fight the teenager take arm and wage their own personal war against the soviet cuban scum who have invade their homeland and kill innocent american . co write and direct by avid gun collector and pro gun activist john milius one have to say that i really do not think too much of this overly sentimental teenage action film . the script by milius and kevin reynolds take itself deadly seriously and be very pro the right to bear arm all the way and it say that the right of each american to own a gun be good because america be the land of the free and in the event of an attack by the russian or any other evil superpower individual american will be able to defend themselves . i suppose red dawn try to tap into the fear people have at the time and fear about cummunism and about russia and about world war iii and about nuclear warfare and about increase legislation in own a gun which red dawn repeatedly say own a gun be every american god give right and the whole survivalist movement . the character aren not great and there the clichéd action film theme of ordinary people be thrust into an extraordinary situation and have to toughen up and overcome the odds and you know the sort of thing i mean . nothing really work that well and while watch it last night i just think it be a collection of seemingly random incident string together and you never get to know any of the character and in fact i couldn not really name them now a i couldn not really tell them apart . the film never leave the confines of the colorado town either and i for one never really felt like the whole of the u be at war . at almost two hour it felt like it go on forever and the action isn not anything special and it hard to believe a group of teenager could take on and defeat a heavily arm platoon of highly trained soldier . i read somewhere once that someone think red dawn resemble the goony ( 1985 ) but with gun and rocket launcher which i think be actually quite an apt description . director milius nail his allegiance down here and there be some really nauseating scene of gross patriotism which i find rather laughable . the scene of the teenager listen to the radio and the american national anthem come on to keep the nation spirit up be just so forced and cheap it untrue . red dawn be the very first film release with a pg 13 rating in the state and the flamingo kid ( 1984 ) be actually the first film to be give a pg 13 but red dawn end up be release before it . there be a fairly high body count and a fair amount of blood too although it not that graphic it be quite violent and whether red dawn would still get a pg 13 today be debatable . amazingly the term red dawn be the give code name for the military operation in iraq that capture saddam hussein back in 2003. the film be well make with decent production value and the military vehicle and the like look very authentic i suppose and the new mexico location shooting have some nice scenery . there be several sizable part of the film which be subtitle . the acting be in my opinion very poor and the like of patrick swayze and charlie sheen in his film debut and c. thomas howell and lea thompson and harry dean stanton and power boothe be capable of much good than this and some of the performance be truly dire . red dawn be not a film that i can say i like and it pro war pro gun patriotic nonsense that have date very badly and be a bit of a chore to sit through in one sit . apparently set to be remake a red dawn ( 2010 ) .