Rescue Dawn (PG-13)

Quicklook Rating★★★½

synopsis

In the annals of history's great escapes there is no other story like that of Dieter Dengler, the only American to ever break out of a POW camp in the impenetrable Laotian jungle. After months plotting his getaway from a harrowing prison and a death-defying journey through some of the world's fiercest wilderness, Dengler appeared at his first press conference looking like a dashing movie star and showing neither sentimentality nor bitterness - simply an indomitable will to survive that allowed him to triumph against impossible odds.

MovieGoer Review

The year's best ensemble cast isn't even Rescue Dawn's biggest asset. That would be writer-director Werner Herzog, without whom the movie would've been made with uber-testosterone instead of being about it.

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synopsis

In the annals of history's great escapes there is no other story like that of Dieter Dengler, the only American to ever break out of a POW camp in the impenetrable Laotian jungle. After months plotting his getaway from a harrowing prison and a death-defying journey through some of the world's fiercest wilderness, Dengler appeared at his first press conference looking like a dashing movie star and showing neither sentimentality nor bitterness - simply an indomitable will to survive that allowed him to triumph against impossible odds.

MovieGoer Review

The year's best ensemble cast isn't even Rescue Dawn's biggest asset. That would be writer-director Werner Herzog, without whom the movie would've been made with uber-testosterone instead of being about it.

Story

Rescu... MORE