Post by jipper on Aug 25, 2013 5:34:10 GMT -5
Red Dawn (2012)
4 of 10
***No Spoilers***
4 of 10
***No Spoilers***
I loved the original Red Dawn. It wasn't the greatest movie ever made but it was a great action movie. The plot for this movie has so much potential that can be lived up to if done right. The original did a good job but there was certainly room for improvements.
When I first heard about the remake coming, I was initially excited. When I began to hear about the casting, I lost a lot of luster for this film. Chris Hemsworth isn't the worst pretty-boy actor out there but he's by no means a good actor. He's definitely an, "in the moment" pretty boy that will probably pass. Josh Hutcherson is just a flat out bad actor. I say that and he's even from my home state which I think makes me hate him worse. The kid just lacks emotion. Or at least the right emotion for the right scene. Josh Peck has actually turned out to be a good actor but the fat kid from Josh and Drake just isn't the right casting for a young Charlie Sheen's replacement.
So when the trailers for the movie came out my worst fears appeared to be confirmed. The movie appeared to be action'd up, CGI'd up, glazed over depth and more of a paycheck movie than something someone in the making process actually felt inspired by. I didn't watch the remake I was once excited to see in theaters. After bad reviews I didn't even rent it on BluRay when it came out. Instead, I decided not to watch it. Eventually when TV watching was hard up a few weeks ago and the movie was free, I watched it. My worst fears were confirmed but it wasn't as bad as I thought it'd be.
The best way to describe this movie is with an analogy. The "bad guys" parachuting into the town would have been a powerful emotional scene if the bad CGI hadn't taken me out of it. Everything in this movie was close to being good but something (i.e. CGI, bad acting, pointless action, not reaching for enough depth) took me out of it and kept it from being as good as it could/should have been.
Overall not horrible, but a below average movie. All this can be blamed on the director or whomever was controlling him. There was some bad acting. Chris Hemsworth was as usual, towing the line between descent and bad. Even that falls onto whoever was in charge of this project.
A quick summery of this film from me would be, "A lot of failed potential that overall just missed the mark."