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Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan (2019)
Directed by Kriv Stenders
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Vietnam War, 1966. Australia and New Zealand send troops to support the United States and South Vietnamese in their fight against the communist North. Soldiers are very young men, recruits and volunteers who have never been involved in a combat. On August 18th, members of Delta Company will face the true horror of a ruthless battle among the trees of a rubber plantation called Long Tân. They are barely a hundred. The enemy is a human wave ready to destroy them.
Rated R | Length 119 minutes
Actors
Travis Fimmel | Luke Bracey | Daniel Webber | Alexander England | Aaron Glenane | Nicholas Hamilton | Myles Pollard | Matt Doran | Anthony Hayes | Richard Roxburgh | Toby Blome | Uli Latukefu | Richard Te Are | Sean McCarthy | Mojean Aria | Ryan Hance | Jordan Abbey-Young | James Storer | Ben Esler | Sam Parsonson | Travis Jeffery | Sam Fraser | Julian Cullen | Lasarus Ratuere | Sean Lynch | Leon Stripp | Jon Iles | Alex Neal | Emmy Dougall | Geoffrey Winter | Benjamin Shannon | Tyler Goes | Oliver Lacey | Stephen Adams | Luis Barnett | Tom Yaxley | Ethan Robinson | Hugo Koehne | Jay Kiriona | Aaron L. McGrath | Felix Johnson | Jarryd Doyle | Zachary Denman | Sam Cotton | Julian Lawrence | Christopher Sommers | Steve Peacocke | Ri-Jie Kwok | Victoria Liu | Oakley Kwon | Connor Clarke | Paul Allica | Lincoln Lewis | Andrew George | Sonny Le | Corey Matheson | Joel Drabble | Subaru Muroi | Tim Weir
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04/27/2020 | Home Theater | Streaming | Video on Demand | 7 stars |
| (Average) 7 stars |
Viewing Notes
A pretty decent war movie based on the Battle of Long Tan in 1966 involving a vastly outnumbered group of Australian and New Zealand troops.
Borrows a bit from APOCALYPSE NOW (you’ll know it when you see it) and has the normal staple of war movie cliches including last second arrival of the cavalry, senseless deaths of people standing up in the middle of a firefight, insubordination, farm boy makes good, misunderstood leader who’s really just a swell guy, etc.
One thing I really appreciated were the realistic looking death throes of the NVA soldiers. Those stunt performers did a great job.
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