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Mary F. Pols, TIME Magazine: It's Friday Night Lights territory, but without good writing or acting. Read more
James Rocchi, MSN Movies: ... the new "Red Dawn" feels like -- a surface-level photocopy with all of the problems of the first film and none of the accidental, seen-in-the-rearview power. Read more
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: Bradley ... handles the low-fi action well, which helps divert attention from the bargain-bin special effects, bad acting and politics. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: Scenes are rather murkily shot and characters are like cardboard cutouts. Read more
Soren Anderson, Seattle Times: Was anybody out there clamoring for a remake of "Red Dawn"? Show of hands? Anybody? Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: Red Dawn without the jingoism is like a pie without the filling-it collapses into splintered mush. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: Could be fun, you might think. No. Bad acting and worse dialogue quickly put an end to that notion. Read more
Tom Russo, Boston Globe: An even odder war story than the bluntly provocative, Reagan-era original. Read more
Drew Hunt, Chicago Reader: John Milius's 1984 cult classic about American teens battling a Soviet invasion has been reinvented as a Tea Party wet dream that offers a scathing (if completely illogical) indictment of the federal government. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: It's not a disaster. It's just drab. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: North Koreans? Falling from the sky? Seriously? Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Take that, screaming North Koreans with no agenda! Read more
Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter: An already silly premise is given a ham-fisted treatment in this ill-advised remake of John Milius' 1984 hit action film. Read more
Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: A movie in search of its moment. Read more
Charlie McCollum, San Jose Mercury News: Remaking an old film is rarely a good idea, but sometimes the idea is so spectacularly bad that the reasoning behind it defies all comprehension. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: There's no edge to anything, either dramatically or politically. Read more
Mark Jenkins, NPR: [Its] portrayal of violence derives more from video games than from history. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: The more ludicrous a concept, the more crucial it is that the director embrace the bigger-than-life absurdity. But everything about this project feels small-time. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: It's Kim Jong-un versus Some Young Dumb 'Uns. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Hobbled by a laughably bad script and a uniformly uncharismatic cast. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Red Dawn suffers from a number of serious problems. The first, and most obvious, is that this is mini-series material compressed into a 95-minute movie. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: I think I'm beginning to understand why the Chinese were not reckoned to be a prime market for this film. Read more
Hugh Ryan, Salon.com: "Red Dawn" is a ghoulish parody of reality, served up earnestly and obliviously, to an audience whose enjoyment will, perforce, be directly proportional to its ignorance. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Unfortunately, the characters are so programmatic, the premise so ridiculous and the situations so far-fetched even if you accept that premise that no energy can be built, and the little that's there can't be sustained. Read more
Jake Coyle, Associated Press: Today's terrorism paranoia, apparently, is too complex and too faceless for some. No, we need a clear-cut enemy. Do you have something in red? Read more
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: This world is divided between the makers and the takers, and after just a few minutes of "Red Dawn," you'll realize there's not much more you can take. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Preposterously insincere ... Read more
Bruce Demara, Toronto Star: Just really, really lame, right down to the Communist symbols that adorn the revised Stars and Stripes. Read more
Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: Hutcherson gives what may be his first lackluster performance here, and I say that as someone who saw both Journey to the Center of the Earth movies. Read more
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: Anew Red Dawn could have been so much more fun had it thrown a properly out-of-bounds tea party. (It lacks the signature brawn of original director John Milius, a guns-first libertarian.) Read more
Joe Leydon, Variety: Battle scenes are infused with a propulsive sense of urgency, as Bradley (a vet stunt coordinator and second unit director) often achieves an effective semi-documentary look. Read more
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice: Single-mindedly action-oriented to the point where Milius's film seems relatively ruminative ... Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: Despite the more realistic battle scenes, nothing in it feels more fateful than a football game. Read more