Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan

R

Released Nov 8, 2019

1h 58m

War

History

Drama

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71%

35 Reviews

Tomatometer

75%

100+ Ratings

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Australian and New Zealand soldiers face overwhelming odds as they fight for their lives during the Battle of Long Tan in Vietnam.

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Critics Consensus

Danger Close is problematic as a history lesson, but still offers viewers an involving look at life in the trenches of a real-life conflict.

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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 old-school war movie propelled by matter-of-fact professionalism on both sides of the cameras.

Nov 8, 2019

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Noel Murray

Los Angeles Times

Anyone interested in the complexities and controversies surrounding Australia and New Zealand's involvement in Vietnam may find "Danger Close" disappointing. But the movie actually works OK as one long fight scene.

Nov 8, 2019

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David Stratton

The Australian

Stenders and cinematographer Ben Nott stage the battle scenes with impressive hyper-realism, and editor Veronika Jenet's work is, once again, outstanding. Made on location in Queensland, the film feels thoroughly authentic.

Rated: 3.5/5

Aug 9, 2019

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Kevin Wight

The Wee Review

That lingering whiff of unquestioning patriotism is an ugly scratch on its shiny livery but for relentless, meat-and-potatoes action you could do a whole lot worse.

Rated: 3

May 2, 2020

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Adam Sweeting

The Arts Desk

Danger Close fends off sentimentality with a pacy narrative which keeps the action sequences fierce and involving.

Rated: 3/5

Apr 12, 2020

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Rich Cline

Shadows on the Wall

It's skilfully shot and grippingly well-edited, with a superbly engaging cast.

Rated: 4/5

Apr 8, 2020

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Bloodystumps !

Action packed from beginning to end. The movie brought you into the battle from the beginning enabling me to relate to the decisions and action. Well worth watching as I am a history buff surrounding strategic battles such as this one.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

11/12/23

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Lanfranco C

The Diggers fought in the Vietnam war too, and on the right side!

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

10/31/23

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Grace W

If you want to watch a possibly somewhat realistic representation of this battle including periods of boredom interspaced with intense repetitive gunfire, colloquial small talk and a chaotic yet meandering plot, it's fine and likely accurate to how it felt when it happened. However it doesn't make for good viewing. This movie like many Australian productions suffers from multiple high school drama student errors from failing to do a proper editors cut and remove many overproduced scenes that add nothing to the story except runtime, to filming in an obviously non-authentic location where they rely on rain and fog machines to try and cover up the vastly different vegetation. Great potential, poor execution.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

10/21/23

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Matthew X

The movie was great, nothing to complain about,

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

08/15/23

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Michael L

Early conflict in Vietnam from the perspective of the Australian army. True story with excellent filming and acting.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

07/17/23

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Mike L

Just another Western movie about feeling proud they invaded and murdered countless Vietnamese.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

04/09/23

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Synopsis

Australian and New Zealand soldiers face overwhelming odds as they fight for their lives during the Battle of Long Tan in Vietnam.

Director: Kriv Stenders
Producer: Marcus Bolton, Alastair Burlingham
Screenwriter: Stuart Beattie, Karel Segers
Distributor: Saban Films
Production Co: Screen Queensland
Rating: R (Sequences of War Violence|Language Throughout)
Genre: War, History, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 8, 2019, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 5, 2019
Runtime: 1h 58m

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