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Although it parallels an old-fashioned prisoner-of-war movie,
Rescue Dawn becomes much more because of writer-director
Werner Herzog's admiration for the remarkable true story
of Dieter Dengler, the German-born U.S. Navy pilot shot
down over Laos in 1966, who escaped a remote jungle prison
camp after months of brutal captivity. Dengler at first
seems a conventional action-movie hero: handsome, resourceful,
brave and optimistic. But the more time spent with him,
the more eccentricities he reveals...
Herzog has found in Christian Bale an actor capable of conveying
the intensity and visionary quality of the typical Herzogian
hero, in the lushness of the Laotian jungle a wonderful
backdrop, and in his nod towards the Iraq war a most thought-provoking
movie.
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"Riveting... superbly directed by Werner Herzog and
featuring yet another terrific performance by Christian
Bale."
Matthew Turner, VIEWLONDON
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