Recounting the Battle of Long Tan fought by Australian soldiers in Vietnam in 1996, director Kriv Stenders’ Danger Close is a formulaic yet involving war film that details the harrowing events endured by 108 soldiers as they faced an army of 2,000.Stenders helms a screenplay penned by Stuart Beattie, James Nichols, Karel Segers, Paul Sullivan, and Jack Brislee; it’s a mostly effective script, executed with a solid sense of propulsion narratively.
However, the abundance of writers is indicative of the lack of individuality of the film, which often falls into cliche feels too generic to be a distinctive piece of work.
That being said, there’s a lot it gets right too; it may be formulaic, but it’s a formula executed well and Stenders juggles
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