Filled with corny speeches and uncharismatic performances, there’s not one iota of dynamism to this dull action fodder.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 21, 2022

Throughout the movie you’ll find huge gaps in logic, glaring plot holes, and numerous moments where all you can do is bury your face in your hands.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 24, 2022

With its over-hyped bravado, laughably machismo dialogue, and stilted performances, the film often feels like a high school acting class

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Sep 21, 2020

The whole point of "Red Dawn" is to blow up a lot buildings, shoot off a lot of bullets, and prove, once and for all, that jocks, sluts, nerds, and every other high school social caste can come together as one to battle a highly trained invading army.

| Original Score: C | Jul 12, 2020

A blend of fun popcorn entertainment, resonating characters, and balls to the wall basic action with bullets, car chases and blowing things up, it's the dawn of a new era for Red Dawn. Lock, load and howl. Go Wolverines!

| Nov 27, 2019

This is a corny bit of fluff that grows more preposterous as it goes along.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 11, 2019

Red Dawn is horribly dull throughout, with no pace or vigour to its action, no purpose to its story, and no investment in its characters.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 13, 2019

For people who are remake completionists...Red Dawn may be a fun diversion. For others, it will be an assault on valuable time and film-viewing sensibilities.

| Original Score: C- | Jan 30, 2019

[It's] a fun piece of escapism -- thanks mainly to the talents of Hemsworth.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 19, 2018

Notably, this wretched remake sat on the shelves for about a couple of years before the movie studio salvaged it in hopes of capitalizing on the ham-fisted hedonism of John Milius's 80s hit actioner...no need to rise at Dawn for this rancid reboot.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 19, 2018

Red Dawn, whose heroes are teens, will be most appreciated by the teen audience. But adults will lose interest pretty quick.

| Nov 29, 2017

It's hardly worth the wait.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 1, 2017

More like Red Yawn.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 14, 2016

A picture of slight charms and minor successes, but they're definitely there for the right audience to discover.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 17, 2016

... intricately designed to not offend any subset of its audience. It's as impotent as Milius' original was ballsy, and despite a brief running time and passable action, it ends up a frustratingly pointless experience.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 25, 2013

As stupid as the original, yet modernized to include the Subway product placement that today's audiences crave.

| Original Score: D+ | Jul 27, 2013

Ridiculously violent for the certificate and wholly implausible in its set up, Red Dawn is the kind of gung-ho action thriller for people with sawdust for brains.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 19, 2013

In the wake of the Oscars, we have an early contender for worst film of the year.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 17, 2013

It is a foolish, ill-considered undertaking, the unexpected topicality of which makes it all the sillier.

| Mar 17, 2013

This dismal remake of the overrated '80s cult flick is littered with the type of nausea-inducing patriotic dialogue lampooned by the likes of Team America: World Police.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 17, 2013