Rescue Dawn

Pros: Good acting, based on a real-life hero, touching, inspiring.
Cons: Slow at times

I watched this movie, thinking that it would involve a lot of action and Christian Bale kicking butt throughout the film. This film took me through several emotions: bored, frightened, shocked, humor-filled, intrigued and so on. What first got me to even ...

Pros: Very well told story with a gripping plot and excellent performances.
Cons: the story in the second half moves on a slow pace

Christian Bale is one of my favorite actors and I don't miss many of his movies. I watched this movie only for him but it is worth more than that. Werner Herzog, a very capable director, directed this movie and it is one of his best movies. It has a very ...

Pros: Good supporting actors, some nice camera work.
Cons: Doesn't communicate the horror of SouthEast Asian POW camps. Deer Hunter did it better.

I saw this as a preview in NYC last evening.

I happen to like Christian Bale since his first major role (I think) in Empire of the Sun, the S Spielberg movie. Bale was a child then, and already an wonderfully expressive actor. I've seen him in many subsequent films, some brilliant, some less. He always gives so much to the character he plays.

In this film he's an optimist and a POW (unlike his Batman role where he's depressed but he can fly over rooftops.
There was a lot of fine acting going on, but the film was a little dull. You know he is going to escape his POW circumstance (because the film is based on his story), but the prisoner scenes are not as vivid as what we were fed years ago with The (great)Deer Hunter; nor as interesting as Midnight Express. Just a little flat, though there are some very good supporting actors.