Put it down to the fog of war if you're feeling generous, but either way this is a heartfelt and, at times, gruesome reminder of an often overlooked chapter in history.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 13, 2024

That lingering whiff of unquestioning patriotism is an ugly scratch on its shiny livery but for relentless, meat-and-potatoes action you could do a whole lot worse.

| Original Score: 3 | May 2, 2020

Danger Close fends off sentimentality with a pacy narrative which keeps the action sequences fierce and involving.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 12, 2020

It's skilfully shot and grippingly well-edited, with a superbly engaging cast.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 8, 2020

It offers more to genre enthusiasts but is a good watch.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 7, 2020

[I]n this day and age, painting the Battle of Long Tan as a victory for Australian grit while making no comment on their reasons for being there simply is not on.

| Apr 6, 2020

The end result is about the ebb and flow of a conflict involving hundreds of combatants, not the scenes of solo heroism that typically make up the bulk of war movies

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 12, 2020

A familiar formulaic 'War is Hell' movie.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 20, 2020

Grippingly depict[s] the intensely subjective experience of violence without centring individual heroes ... what makes it effective is Kriv Stenders' multifaceted approach.

| Dec 11, 2019

Travis Fimmel leads a fresh cast of actors in this story of Australia/New Zealand fighters in Vietnam. Full of heroics with a personal touch.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 15, 2019

By turns viscerally exciting and predictably formulaic - and, quite often, both at once - "Danger Close" is an efficiently crafted and consistently involving old-school war movie propelled by matter-of-fact professionalism on both sides of the cameras.

| Nov 8, 2019

Anyone interested in the complexities and controversies surrounding Australia and New Zealand's involvement in Vietnam may find "Danger Close" disappointing. But the movie actually works OK as one long fight scene.

| Nov 8, 2019

Danger Close ... exclusively paints with broad narrative strokes.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 8, 2019

What makes this familiar vision of the apocalypse work now is composer Caitlin Yeo, whose burbling score gives Danger Close a sense of mid-70s Peter Weir-ish mysticism the film itself almost doesn't deserve.

| Nov 7, 2019

Solely focused on the soldiers from Australia and New Zealand involved in the Battle of Long Tan, the cinematic hagiography seeks to honor their memory and succeeds. Beyond a core audience, however, most other viewers may remain nonplussed.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 5, 2019

While Aussie audiences might find enough incentive to cheer their own, dramatically it seems like a missed opportunity.

| Nov 2, 2019

A straightforward but compelling account of a significant military victory in an unpopular war.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 9, 2019

[F]or those interested in the machinations of warfare Danger Close is an intense, exhausting and visceral experience.

| Sep 5, 2019

Intense, emotional and, at times, harrowing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 4, 2019

Stenders has put together a well shot and engaging re-enactment ... (but) it falls short in many other areas.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 26, 2019