It's kind of salty, like eating a steak while having a bloody nose. If it's your first time, you must drink. Don't fight it, quench your body while simultaneously quenching your thirst for bad cinema.

You'll thank me as you witness the power and the glory that is Red Dawn. Once you've seen it, you'll have the spirit of the hunter with you always! This 1984 classic takes advantage of this country's greatest fear at the time; a Communist invasion!

Yes, remember a simpler time when we could concentrate our anger on just one country, the good old U.S.S.R. Red Dawn wastes no time with a whole lot of background. The movie opens with Soviet paratroopers landing just outside a small town High School as students settle in for their morning classes. The history teacher goes outside to investigate and is immediately gunned down. At this point a group of students decides it might be a good time to vacate the premises and head for the mountains where they can live out their dreams of waging guerilla warfare! Taking on the name of their High School mascot, the Wolverines strike fear into the hearts of those pinko commie bastards!

As mentioned in Pat's review, Red Dawn is the second installment of the Outsider series. You may recognize some familiar faces from the original. Sweet Swayze returns as the headstrong leader of misfits, and how could you forget that no good "soc", played by Derren Dalton (the Benidict Arnold of the group.) Of course we have the return of the great C. Thomas Howell, need I say more? Unfortunately, Emilio was too busy making Repo Man (an actual good movie which is a complete aberration in his career, marring an otherwise perfect record of making truly horrendous movies) to reprise his roll as "Two Bit." However, this didn't stop his co-star, Harry Dean Stanton and his brother Charlie Sheen from contributing to the shameless propaganda film that is Red Dawn. This movie also unleashed the awesome acting fury of Jennifer Gray, Lea Thompson and Pat's favorite, William Smith as Colonel Strelnikov.

Like its predecessor, Red Dawn is a vehicle for a slew of young actors who would hold audiences hostage with their bad performances for well over a decade. If you desire a Soviet/Cuban-invading-USA-coming-of- age action flick, look no further! Wolverines!!!!!

Hamlin Grade:4

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