Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

Maleeha Vincent It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

teresacarr This movie is legitimately the WORST movie I have ever seen. We watched the whole thing..... it was like a train wreck. We could not look away and we couldn't stop watching. The sad part is that it's not a comedy! We can't wait to watch it again!!!!!!

Leofwine_draca BEACH RED is an intriguing war picture, directed by and starring Cornel Wilde, who is a bit long in the tooth for his role but otherwise sound. This is a mildly experimental bit of film-making that takes a psychological approach to a battle, depicting the frightened wits of the young soldiers involved, plonking them into a brutal beach landing and then some claustrophobic jungle combat.What I particularly liked about this film is its stylistic approach, courtesy of Wilde. Most American '60s Pacific War-themed movies simply depict the Japanese enemy as faceless aggressors or even worse as evil demons. Here, they're no different to their American counterparts, frightened and thinking of their family members back home. This film parallels the two sides throughout and builds to a moving climax which really hits home the similarities between the troops.The rest of the film is a little slow and repetitive in places although it holds together quite nicely overall. The action is well depicted at the outset, with a lengthy beach landing which surely must have inspired Spielberg to make the opening bit of SAVING PRIVATE RYAN; the two are photographed in almost identical ways and BEACH RED's action is almost as brutal. The young cast give good turns, particularly Rip Torn, and the photography is fine. The only thing I would change is the use of still photography in the flashback scenes, which dates it a bit.

inspectors71 I remember seeing Cornel Wilde in a couple of costume dramas as a kid. Intense eyes, a very interesting voice, and later I realized he was wearing a wig. He always seemed old to me. I've seen three movies directed by Wilde. I reviewed Sword of Lancelot, a very good try for a low-budget clang-and-banger. I remember enjoying how daring Wilde was in his execution of battle scenes, and I'm still a little startled by his scene with Guinevere, all drying sweat and catching their breath. 1962. Wow.Anyway, I saw Beach Red in 2008 on TCM, I think. Although it's a clunky, over-dramatic war-is-heller, once again, Wilde finds some interesting ways to tell his story of the US Marines and Japanese soldiers fighting for an island in the South Pacific. Lots of narrative, lots of flashbacks. I remember one where a Japanese thinks about his wife and children in a bath house. Lots of naked people, but you don't really notice because of how Wilde humanizes his characters. Of course they're naked in a bath house. So what?It's weird to say this, but that is good movie-making.Beach Red isn't a great war--or anti-war--movie. But Cornel Wilde seems to have made a name for himself as something of a risk-taker. He sometimes uses a sledgehammer when a scalpel would do, but he gives it a try. Something most corporate movie-hacks wouldn't dream of doing. And that is why I recommend Beach Red.I just saw 1977's The Hills Have Eyes. Wes Craven seems to come from the same school of thought, "Let's throw it up on the screen and see if it sticks." But don't lose control of the narrative.

Milan "Beach Red" seams to divide the commentators into two distinctively different tribes, the ones that love it and the ones that hate it. There don't seem to be a middle of the road opinion on this movie, so there's mine. I've seen this movie after I heard some good words on it's originality, and I just glanced through user comments on IMDb missing all the bad reviews. I've seen this film on it's own merit and here is what I think."Beach Red" is surely one of the strangest and most different war movies of all times, and is particularly original for it's era. Up until the beginning 70's when all the Vietnam resentment started to flow over Hollywood,so the movies like Catch-22 and MASH started to appear, there simply was no war movie that didn't look like "Objective Burma", "Sands of Iwo Jima" or if you want complete silliness "Bridge on the river Kwai". "Beach Red" certainly moved boundaries, it has some school play acting, but the mood of the war is accurately portrayed. Flashbacks are the core of that different approach and look and feel of those is particularly good. One of the reviewers objected that flashbacks show the women of principal American characters with 60's makeup,hairstyles and their homes furnished in 60's style, but they missed that the Japenese women and children were all shown in traditional surroundings and clothes and that's just the point Wilde wanted to make, a great difference in the way of living and culture, and draw a parallel between all wars between cultures from WWII to Vietnam. So the soldiers fight in Phillippines but it looks like they were leaving their loved ones for Vietnam. There is a link between than and now, war is always the same only the settings are different, and that is very well shown in "Beach Red", in which Japanese soldiers don't conveniently speak English with Japanese accent, but Japanese and act like them. Give this movie a try, it may require some patience and understanding but it won't let you down.