tomkennedy1957-143-645218 This is one of the most offensive movies ever made. The thrust of the film is that Australians really have an enemy in 21st century South-east Asia. Are the makers of this shlok feast stuck in the 40's?! Hopefully this film marks the grave of the careers of all who made it.

thecriticmaster I liked the story line, with a similar story line to Red Dawm, the location of the story was based in Australia not the USA. The suspense was good and most of it was filmed well. A few things didn't sit right, but otherwise good outcome. The set, the characters, graphics was fairly convincing.

Dawnine I stumbled upon this title a long time ago and, without reading anything about it, gave it a whirl. It took me on an unexpected ride. I loved it.I am a fan of the 1984 Red Dawn movie. In fact, this time around I actually watched that movie first and then came back to this one. The re- make of Red Dawn was a severe disappointment for me but this gave me a modern adaptation that, while not based in the USA, was both feasible and engaging. This is the story that people should be made aware of.I believe that it has been turned into a series, somewhere. Although I might be tempted, this contained cinematic version hits the best spots while leaving the future uncertain. I don't care. I love this movie.

Josh Daly As Sun Tzu once said "to defeat evil Asians, you should employ teenage girls who have never used assault rifles, because only they can save Australia!" This movie was an adaptation of the first book in a would-be franchise (had the movie not died at the global box office) about some teenagers who return to their home after a camping/hiking trip to find that their home town in Australia has been occupied by some miscellaneous Asians. Of course, I use the word "miscellaneous" because they never actually clarify where they come from and absolutely none of them have personalities besides "evil" or "silly" or "cannon fodder". What I will say is that the movie has perfectly fine production values, I never felt distracted by anything other than the flimsy writing. Although, I thought the blood effects were reminiscent of The Last Stand - a movie in which blood is presented as weird red mist that doesn't land on anything. I never felt unconvinced by the action scenes, even though I was completely uninvolved thanks to the poorly written characters and the flimsy script. The actors and actresses don't do any more than what they're meant to do as their respective characters. They don't really do very much to convince the audience (or critics) that their performance or characters are memorable. The action scenes are disappointingly void, thanks to their plain or slightly agitated expressions that the various performers show while they are being shot at by the miscellaneous Asians who are arguably more convincing than the main characters.Unfortunately, the script is so flimsy that a lot of scenes lack gravitas. What I mean by this is that the character interactions aren't realistic or what you would really expect from the characters that have been developed. Needy Christian girl becomes pseudo-war- hero? Bored-looking teenager gives motivational speech to a stoner about his idle behaviour? I wish the movie would be a bit less "movie"; a lot of the dialogue is cliché or some of the movie's moments seem ripped- off or rehashed from elsewhere. It doesn't help that the film is so disappointingly cynical either.Why did this movie fail, though? Personally, I don't feel like this movie deserved to fail like it did. There was clearly an audience for it, even though this movie doesn't appeal to me, it appeals to many young adults out there. Some of which bought the books that this movie came from. The production values are definitely hard to deny, but I still don't feel as if it is as impressive as a movie such as The Raid: Redemption which had a smaller budget. I would like to blame the poor marketing and the R rating this film earned.To be honest, this film isn't very R rated, and if this was advertised properly then I would guarantee a box office success. This film has action and character drama and is full of content and some of the set pieces could match those seen in movies such as The Hunger Games. It's just a shame that the posters and trailers seemed so lifeless, bland and generic - with no sense of joy or character. It's even more of a shame that the marketing wasn't exactly misleading either, because that's what this cynical mess was...