Ambush

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Ambush

R

2023

1h 44m

War

Action

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Aaron Eckhart (The Dark Knight) and Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Vikings) star in this intense, gritty and action-packed Vietnam War epic. When a small outpost is ambushed, a US Army squad must take the battle below ground on a high-stakes mission in a new type of warfare the likes of which they have never seen.

Phil Hoad

Guardian

02/27/2023

2/5

It’s a bit sad that director Mark Burman needed two other writers to turn out this perfunctorily handled heap of metal-fatigued tropes.

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Noel Murray

Los Angeles Times

02/24/2023

“Ambush” has the structure of an old-fashioned two-fisted combat picture, but with too little actual combat.

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Todd Gilchrist

Variety

02/24/2023

Smarter and more entertaining than one might expect from a small-scale, outwardly familiar story like this, “Ambush” feels like a throwback — mostly in a good way — to the ‘Namsploitation films that companies like Cannon churned out in the 1980s,

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

03/03/2023

C+

Unimpressive low-budget cliched Vietnam war film.

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Jeffrey Lyles

Lyles' Movie Files

02/26/2023

8.5/10

Ambush doesn’t revolutionize the Nam movie experience, but it’s impressively staged with action scenes that work within the budget while leaning heavily on its cast to tell an engaging and unique story.

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Jeffrey M. Anderson

Common Sense Media

02/25/2023

3/5

Despite a creaky plot setup and a small budget, this Vietnam War story delivers commentary on the hypocrisy of war while still respecting the people who risk their lives to fight.

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Kandy A

@RT74818817 02/26/2025

A talented cast forced to follow a very weak storyline. At times the dialogues was very corny. Connor Paolo was great in his role as Ackerman.

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Simon T

@SimonpTemplar60 02/19/2025

I know nothing about military insignia, who reports to whom, etc, however, what I am familiar with is a good vs a bad movie and good vs bad acting. This movie was awful on both counts. One redeeming quality - Jonathan Rhys Meyers, that's it and he couldn't save this disaster.

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FlyMachine O

@RT15000300 02/09/2025

Cliche, unsophisticated, pretentious, lacking depth, and evidently low budget. Very little if any military accuracy. This movie was more like a tediously long episode of a 90s action TV show. If not for the two leading actors I would totally ignore this as tripe in the first 5 minutes, despite my love for war films, I kept thinking it will get better, it never does. Don’t watch this for any reason other than curiosity. Possibly the worst mainstream war movie ever made I’m actually annoyed.

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Joe W

@RT13534023 01/28/2025

I love the shots taken at the Marine Corps outdoor Air Museum in San Diego. There was nothing militarily correct in this time suck.

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George V

@RT28954793 01/22/2025

Could only stand about 5 or 6 minutes. Hard to distinguish if it’s drama or comedy. If it’s comedy it still can’t touch Tropic Thunder. If it’s drama, well then that’s just sad.

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Steven M

@RT55627575 01/12/2025

I stopped watching it five minutes in when they had a corporal in charge of a fire base

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Synopsis

Aaron Eckhart (The Dark Knight) and Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Vikings) star in this intense, gritty and action-packed Vietnam War epic. When a small outpost is ambushed, a US Army squad must take the battle below ground on a high-stakes mission in a new type of warfare the likes of which they have never seen.

Director: Mark Earl Burman
Producer: Mark Earl Burman
Screenwriter: Mark Earl Burman, Johnny Lozano, Michael McClung
Distributor: Saban Films
Production Co: BurningBull SPFX, Splendid Film, Buffalo 8 Productions, Jaguar Bite, Dark Mark Productions, BondIt Media Capital, ADME Studios
Rating: R (Some Bloody Images|Language|Violence)
Genre: War, Action
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 24, 2023, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 24, 2023
Runtime: 1h 44m