Driving by their deep love and loyalty for their homeland, a group of high school students, after the mysterious attack held against the United States by Russia following the World War II, by putting its control over a small town in Colorado, flee and begin to fight the invasion, till the end, the thing that brings terrible for them.
Red Dawn knows what it wants to say; it just has a hard time saying it, and too often it goes for the easy score instead of really delving into the possibilities of the scenario.
The notion that any enemy would concern itself with Red State real estate is only slightly less believable than the notion that beer-guzzling yahoos would ward off such invaders when in reality they would just get drunk and shoot off their own toes.
When it was released in late summer of 1984, it was a big hit, which shouldn't come as a surprise; this was the year when Reagan won the presidency in a landslide, and if nothing else, 'Red Dawn' plays like a Reaganite masturbatory fantasy.
