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Rescue Dawn
2006
· Movie
· 125 min
B
MEANRANK
74/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1558
- IMDb #1715
- Google retired #1941
- Rotten Tomatoes #1361
- Metacritic #1053
- Letterboxd #1946
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1018
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2110
- Metacritic Critics #869
- Metacritic Audience #1590
- Criticker #1145
- Douban #1084
- Kinopoisk #2611
- AlloCiné #2166
Every rating
56–90
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 56, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 90.
See the most agreed on films →A U.S. Navy pilot on a secret mission during the Vietnam War is shot down over Laos and captured. He is imprisoned in a brutal POW camp where he endures terrible conditions. He meticulously plans a daring escape, convincing other prisoners to join him in a risky bid for freedom through the dense, unforgiving jungle.
Details
- Director
- Werner Herzog
- Based on
- a work by Werner Herzog
- Released
- 23 June 2007
- Country
- Luxembourg, United States, Thailand
- Language
- English, Lao, Vietnamese
- Runtime
- 125 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $10.0M
- Box office
- $7.2M
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Awards
1 win & 6 nominations total
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