Review Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan (2019)

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Late afternoon August 18, 1966 South Vietnam - for three and a half hours, in the pouring rain, amid the mud and shattered trees of a rubber plantation called Long Tan, Major Harry Smith and his dispersed company of 108 young and mostly inexperienced Australian and New Zealand soldiers are fighting for their lives, holding off an overwhelming enemy force of 2,500 battle hardened Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers. With their ammunition running out, their casualties mounting and the enemy massing for a final assault each man begins to search for his own answer - and the strength to triumph over an uncertain future with honor, decency and courage.



 
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This Australian war drama deals with the famed Battle of Long Tan during the Vietnam war in which the Viet Cong took on a small number of inexperienced Aussie & New Zealand forces in a rubber plantation. Despite 25-to-1 odds, the ANZACs held off the forces for three days until reinforcements arrived and the fight was seen as one of the more notable victories and savage battles in the war, even if recently there’s been much debate about the accuracy of accounts by survivors. Kriv Stenders (“Red Dog,” “Blacktown”) helms this take on the battle with the likes of Travis Fimmel, Luke Bracey, Richard Roxburgh, Nicholas Hamilton, Daniel Webber, Aaron Glenane, and Lincoln Lewis starring.
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