Good stuff! It's pretty hardcore in the jungle.

it's ok, true story, bit slow, not that great in terms of this kinda rescue stories in vietnam.

Bien rodada, mantiene el ritmo y cuenta con el habitual aliciente de ser una historia real y la particularidad de los inevitables paralelismos con la dramatica realidad actual de las selvas colombianas...

This rates high mostly due to the dedication of the actors and the physicality of the film-making - typically Herzog strengths. Having read the book, and seen Herzog's earlier documentary on the same subject I found this inevitably familiar. It's imp... (read more) This rates high mostly due to the dedication of the actors and the physicality of the film-making - typically Herzog strengths. Having read the book, and seen Herzog's earlier documentary on the same subject I found this inevitably familiar. It's impossible to know whether the decisions over Bale's portrayal of Dengler were suggested by the Hollywood studio, but even if they were, to the uninitiated his performance was strong. I couldn't help thinking of the real Dieter Dengler though. Zahn and Davies were both very good and totally committed to the task. The ending - a little too Top Gun for me.

This is a strong film, with powerful performances but it is Herzog-lite.

Couldn't see this film again for a while after, made me cry.

Rescue Dawn may not feel much like a Herzog movie, but it's a gripping real-life thriller.

Herzog shows all of this with a fresh, observant eye. While sadism is a staple of most POW movies, Herzog focuses on the punishing tedium and deprivation of confinement. And filming on location in Thailand gives the film a harshly sensual look.

If Rescue Dawn isn't about heroism, then it's about something deeper, more primitive: survival instinct.

Those coming to Rescue Dawn cold will probably accept it as a straightforward, even predictable account of POW suffering, and they'll hang on Bale's muscular portrayal of a man who refuses to say die.

Rescue Dawn's late-coming Vietnam war story -- [Werner] Herzog's first American drama -- is his best film since his great 1970s period.