Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Mabel Munoz Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

contactdouglashumble If you don't like this movie...then you ain't American and that's all there is to it. In fact, if you don't like this movie, just take your butt on outta here you pinko!

Patmillsqa No, the Russians probably wouldn't have invaded the US. And high school jocks fighting as guerrillas? Try turning the sides around. How about American troops fighting kids in Iraq or Afghanistan? Or Vietnam? Wars are declared by old men, but fought by kids in their teens and twenties. I like this movie for the way it explores the changes in the kids' ethics and emotions.

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

grantss Entertaining WW3 drama.Russia launches a surprise attack on and invasion of the USA. A small town in Colorado experiences this first hand when Russian paratroopers land in the town and quickly take it over. A small group of teenagers from the local high school, calling themselves the Wolverines, manage to escape into the mountains and start to fight back.Quite entertaining. Yes, it was made during the Cold War so is a tad propagandic and, some might say, dated. However, it is still relevant today to a degree, due to Vladimir Putin doing his utmost to restart the Cold War. Always good to see the Ruskies get their rear ends kicked.Much grittier than I imagined. Being centred around teens and thus aimed at teens I imagined it would pull its punches and present a Disneyised version of war, complete with empty sentimentality and idealised versions of honour, chivalry and the like. Was pleasantly surprised to see that it didn't go down this path. The scene with the prisoner and the traitor rams that point home.Plot is a bit basic and direction more focused on action than drama, so the movie is certainly no Citizen Kane. However, it has great momentum and is never dull.Main cast includes many stars-to-be: Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, Jennifer Grey (in her second feature film), Lea Thompson and C Thomas Howell. Swayze does well but is a bit miscast, looking to old for his part. Turns out, that, while his character is 18 or so, Swayze was 32! Supporting cast includes Harry Dean Stanton, Powers Boothe and William Smith.Good fun.