ReaderKenka
Let's be realistic.
Ava-Grace Willis
Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
Phillipa
Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.
lichkingwarrior
the movie is basically an Australian rip off of the 1984 Patrick Swayze movie Red Dawn and the Chris Hemsworth 2012 remake.story lines are basically the same grp of kids go camping come home top their home has been invaded by a foreign country. so they use guerrilla tactics to start fighting back.
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.
Julesecosse
I enjoyed this Ozzie version of Red Dawn, it is similar in many ways, but an Australian take e.g. more laid-back. The likelihood of an Asian invasion has been a low level threat for half a century; a sort of a boogeyman for the Austalian populace, after the attack on Darwin during World War II.I reckon it would make a good TV series, as due to it's box office loss; they are unlikely to make a sequel. Plus, I am not sure what they spent all the money on, it could probably have been made for much less. This is the second time I have seen this movie; after the first time I decided to read some of the books.If you liked Red Dawn, you will enjoy this movie; I believe that it is suitable fare for all the family, except perhaps for the very young.
grandmastersik
Reading the info on the TV guide, this sounded exactly like the '80s cold war classic, but the light tone, hormones and debates about consequences and morals made it different enough to be its own film.A slasher-style group of teenagers (you know, the "jock", the bimbo, the bad boy, the religious kid, the "normal" one - who is always the hero/heroine - and the ethnic minority's representative) go camping in the outback; during the night, unmarked warplanes fly over-head. When the kids get back into town, they find that everyone's been rounded up into a concentration camp by the invading Asian army that's so black op's, they don't have any flags, nor do their uniforms bear any resemblance to any existing nation's army.Yeah, right...Suspending belief - as we have to with pretty much everything Hollywood gives us, so why not this? - the film plods along at a more character-developing pace than action-packed one, as if someone decided to cater for all the girls in the audience who'd be tagging along with their teenage boyfriends. Girl-boy banter done with, the group decides to go Viet Cong on the mysterious enemy... and 10 or 20 minutes later it ends. Obviously, a sequel was planned (though whether or not it ever arrives is anyone's guess).If you're a teenager or looking to entertain one, you could do worse than sticking this film on, but use it as you would background music, because, for the most part, it is quite lacking.
