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Simply A Masterpiece

Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

Fantastic!

Admirable film.

Why, in all Australian films to Dune Buggies always have to make an appearance in the chase scenes. In almost every Aussie film sine Mad Max has this happened. The storyline left a lot to be desired. There were certain parts of the movie that were truly cringeworthy. This is a movie definitely aimed at and made by teenagers.

Started to watch this because of a maxim review. Told me it was an exhilarating ride of a movie. I was interested so I watched the trailer. It's nothing more than an Australian version of red dawn made for teens by teens. The original red dawn was outstanding, the remake was pretty good this movie falls somewhere between the butt crack and giblets of movies. Enough said. I watch a lot of movies and can tell you this is a bullet I dodged. I am so tired of these low budget quickie movies that are just put out to get something out there. If you can't make a decent movie, then why try at all? This movie is worse than sharknado. Get my point?

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...

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.