Rescue Dawn (2007)
Directed by Werner Herzog
A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.
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Films like Into The Wild , Rescue Dawn , and Kon-Tiki derive an additional thrill from the “based on a true story” angle, the reality of the accounts inspiring a certain verisimilitude: With the artifice out of the way, there’s just a stranger-than-fiction narrative to tell.
Making funny faces behind his assertive wife as she lectures the kids, mugging it up when stymied by the simplest matter, wagging his finger at his errant sons -- this moronic creature is the best that filmmakers can offer Christian Bale 's superb co-star in "Rescue Dawn," the stone-cold psycho in "A Perfect Getaway"?
Speaking of kudos, director/cowriter Lynne Ramsay ( Morvern Callar ), cinematographer Seamus McGarvey ( Atonement ), art director Charles Kulsziski ( Shame ), production designer Judy Becker ( The Fighter ), and editor Joe Bini ( Rescue Dawn ) deserve some too.
Suffice it to say, Mortensen has been given the role of a lifetime; his transformation into the complexly duplicitous, taciturn, and enigmatic Nikolai is one of the most complete vanishments into a character I've ever seen, so much so that it rivals Christian Bale's chameleonic turns in the equally discomfiting The Machinist and, more recently, Rescue Dawn.