As you probably know by now from reading this blog, my favorite director is Werner Herzog. I am sort of obsessed with him. Anyway his first “fictional” film since 2001 came out yesterday. It is called Rescue Dawn and it stars the amazing Christan Bale and the often hilarious Steve Zahn. The thing about Herzog’s films are that the documentaries have moments of fiction and the fictional films are filmed like documentaries. This one was based on my favorite of his documentaries, Little Deiter Needs To Fly, about a pilot who is imprisoned in a POW camp in Laos in the late 60’s. Everyone I saw Recuse Dawn loved it, and while it was more commercial than most of his films held true to the Herzogian cannon. The only noticeable difference was its lack of slow sweeping landscape shots. They were missed, and the film was faster paced than I am used to for a Herzog film. Oh yeah, and there was also a pretty cheesy Hollywood ending… that being said, the film is way better than anything else in the theaters right now and would be a good introduction to Herzog for people who keep to the multiplexes. So, go see it, now. Lots of explosions and guns and gross bugs! Woo…

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