Rescue Dawn is written and directed by Werner Herzog, so I had planned on letting my friend the Incredible Yodelling Lederhosen make this post, but he has not yet figured out how to use a computer.
Christian Bale plays a bomber pilot who crashes in Laos at the beginning of the Vietnam War. He ends up in a makeshift prison and together with his fellow POWs hatches a plan to escape.
I was a little worried because I know they eat weird foods in that part of the world. I was therefore surprised and pleased to see that when the camp ran out of rice, they served the prisoners live grubs. Yum! Christian Bale looks mighty happy to be greedily wolfing down lots of the wriggling, nummy-nummy bugs.
On a scale of 1 to 5 lily pads, I give this movie:
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