Rescue dawn rotten tomatoes

Based on the true story of Dieter Dengler, Rescue Dawn is a war film that follows the harrowing tale of a downed American fighter pilot's imprisonment and eventual escape from a Laos prison camp during the Vietnam War, played by Christian Bale.

Directed and written by legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog, the movie delves into the struggles of a man caught in the grips of captivity, the brutality of the prison guards, and the lengths to which he will go to regain his freedom.

The film begins with Dieter Dengler, an ambitious and adventurous German-American Navy pilot, being shot down while on a reconnaissance mission over Laos in He crashes in the jungle, and after wandering for several days, he is captured by Pathet Lao guerrillas and is interrogated and imprisoned at a remote prison camp.

At the camp, Dengler meets a group of American prisoners, including a quirky and unpredictable fellow prisoner named Duane (played by Steve Zahn) and a dysentery-stricken Gene (p