Rescue Dawn
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Christian Bale, Jeremy Davies, Steve Zahn Director: Werner Herzog Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed) Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.85:1 Running Time: 126 minutes Published: 2007-11-01 DVD Release Date: 2007-11-20 Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Studio: MGM Home Entertainment |
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Movie Reviews of Rescue Dawn
Movie Review: Rescue Farce...A Disservice to an American Patriot
Summary: 1 Stars
This movie is awful. It's awful not so much of bad acting, it is awful because Werner Herzog is an opportunist and elevates an heroic character by sacrificing the good name Eugene DeBruin who was just as heroic as Dieter Dangler was and perhaps more so by sacrificing his own life to help a fellow prisoner, though most people do not know this.
Anyone interested in the truth should google Rescue Dawn The Truth. This is a web site that Eguene DeBruin's brother has made and points out many egregious ommissions and twists of the truth that Werner made. He basically strives to increase Danglers heros status through ommissions and distortation of the truth by villifying DeBruin. He sacrifices this poor man and has no problem doing it for the good of his movie. He rationalizes this by proclaiming his goal was to tell Dangler's story. It's too bad that in doing so he creates a presumption that this movie is accurate when in fact Herzog clearly failed to do his research on the other characters.
Some factual errors include the wrong number of POW's, making DeBruin into a Charles Manson like charcter when in fact DeBruin was very caring of his fellow POW's. DeBruin volunteered to stay behind during the escape attempt to care for a sick prisoner who could not leave--this ultimately cost him his life. The escape plans were already formulated by the time Dengler became a prisoner not by Dengler himself. DeBruin and another prisoner, not Dengler made the handcuff key that freed them at night. Dengler was not the only prisoner to fire his weapon during the escape attempt. In fact, another prisoner shot and killed the guards. After the escape when Dengler and DeBruin met the movie portrays him as scared and indecisive, which is completely opposite of how DeBruin actually acted. Dengler was hiding in the woods when Martin was killed by the villager, too weak to help and did not fend off the villages with his machete. Dengler is documented stating that DeBruin was of strong character and Jerry DeBruin, brother of Eugene feels that Dengler, had he lived to see the making of this movie would not approve of Werner's portrayal of DeBruin.
One must take this movie with a grain of salt. Dieter Dangler was a hero that is for sure but so were the others in that prisoner of war camp. Werner wants to take advantage of Dangler's German immigrant status and make him the sole hero and defacto leader at the expense of the other prisoners, particularly DeBruin.
Believe what you want, but this film is not an accurate depiction. It reminds me of the old saying; Believe half of what you see and none of what you read. I think that saying is true here. Eugene DeBruin was a hero and a patriot and his sacrifice should never be forgotten. Consider this movie more of a work of fiction than anything else.