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Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan

2019

Kriv Stenders

Travis Fimmel, Luke Bracey, Daniel Webber, Richard Roxburgh ...

5.6

849

War. Action. Drama One late afternoon in 1966, in a Vietnamese rubber plantation, 108 young and mostly inexperienced Australian and New Zealand soldiers held off a force of 2500. This is their untold story. Late afternoon August 18, 1966 South Vietnam - for three and a half hours, in the pouring rain, amid the mud and shattered trees of a rubber plantation called Long Tan, Major Harry Smith and his dispersed company of 108 young and mostly inexperienced ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Harry Windsor The Hollywood Reporter	"Orchestrated on an impressive scale, the movie nonetheless feels both familiar and diffuse"	NEG
United States	Noel Murray Los Angeles Times	"[It] lacks the sophistication and maturity of a great war movie (...) That said, fans of elaborately staged battle sequences will find a lot to appreciate"	NEU
United States	Joe Leydon Variety	"By turns viscerally exciting and predictably formulaic — and, quite often, both at once — 'Danger Close' is an efficiently crafted and consistently involving"	POS
Australia	DM Bradley The Adelaide Review	"An intense and powerful experience, but struggles to balance a contempt for the horror of war with an embrace of its potential for cinematic spectacle."	NEU
United Kingdom	Sarah Ward Screendaily	"Though impressively staged (...) and emotively acted, the result is a war movie both impassioned and generic"	NEU

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