james-donald-1952 We are from Alabama and we lvoe MAGA, God and America and this film showed the heartland will pound the Cubans BUT also our Russian friends used to be our ebemy but now because of the genius of President trump they are our only allies and friends. so watch enjoy but it is dated history MAGA

Nick-Goudy (uaz-78250) The Red menace and Russkies and good old wholesome American boys.How the Russians and Cubans got to the center of America with no resistance and barricaded the strategic little town but kids could leave and enter is part of the magic!

Silent_Cal Let's for a moment leave aside the rather asinine political background of the story, the Cold War milieu and the Middle American paranoia. Obviously the movie is about a bunch of "average" white kids, football players at that, fighting a cast of foreign invaders with scary accents; make of that what you will. But it's also a predictable Eighties action movie, and a rather dumb one to boot.High school kids, half a dozen or so, survive the Soviet-Cuban invasion of Wyoming and take to the hills as guerrilla fighters. I gave a vague number, because director John Milius never convincingly distinguished between any of the characters; I couldn't keep track of who was who or what their names were, so that when several of them inevitably died tragic deaths, I could only react by asking, "Which one was that?"The story is a great celebration of brainless macho posturing. The kids' leader bullies them and threatens them when they express any emotion, and Milius portrays their transformation into killing machines without any trace of irony or self-awareness. He's already stripped them of their individuality, but his only goal seems to be to create violent fight scenes, and not any sort of commentary on the dehumanizing effects of war. The fight scenes, or action scenes or whatever the aficionados prefer to call them, are elaborately staged, with helicopters, tanks, rockets, and lots of exploding stunt men. They also manage to make the trained Soviet soldiers look like morons, while the plucky American youngsters perform like steely Red Berets. The overwhelming focus on the action ensures that the movie will never be taken seriously, because the characters are allowed no emotional life, and the real consequences of guerrilla violence are avoided -- the brutal reprisals, the collateral civilian deaths, the moral compromises.Cheesy Eighties action movies can be fun, but "Red Dawn" is too exploitative for that. It misses all the opportunities it had for thoughtful commentary or provocative insights, and instead just stages a bunch of generic shootouts.

aaronrt-88309 What I like about this movie is it shows A different outcome then most Cold War going Hot movies, and I would like to compare this to another movie made in the 80s, and I was not around during the Intense times, so I may not know what I am talking about, but their is this other movie called The Day After which was made A year before Red Dawn, and of course in that everyone gets Nuked and Humanity is on the brink of death, now in Red Dawn, as A part in the movie explains how nukes were still used, but not enough to destroy the world, limited exchange, and I think that makes for A better WW3 movie, yeah it probably would have not gone down that way during those times, but massive use of Nukes is the cowards way out, and in this movie, it shows pretty well how people dragged into Conventional Conflicts are feeling and the morale in society during times of War and occupation from a foreign enemy, and I like how it showed how even the invaders, at least some of them were feeling the effects of A War, You should just watch to see what I'm talking about. really good show