Red Dawn

This is a thrilling film depicting an rebel group who comes to the rescue of the United States when a foreign army attempts to overtake entire nation by means a violent full-fledged invasion carried out by the ¨Korean enemy¨. The film contains action-packed, violence, crossfire, blow up and tensions build as the teens try to decide whether to surrender to the invaders or resist. This imagines about a Korean invasion of the American heartland by crack airbone troops . Is the dawn of World War III. There is a high school football player called Matt Eckert's (Josh Peck) who gets picked up by his girlfriend, Erica (Isabel Lucas), who's one of the cheerleaders in the school, and they go off to a party that night. While Tom (Brett Cullen) finds his returned son, US Marine Jed (Chris Hemsworth). From out of the sky, Korean troops begin landing in the United States. In a few seconds, the paratroopers have attacked the school and sent a group of teenagers fleeing into the mountains. They manage to pick up a few more people, including schoolmates Robert (Josh Hutcherson) and Daryl (Connor Cruise), as some other escapees follow them in another car. Armed only with hunting rifles, pistols, and bows and arrows, the teens struggle to survive the bitter winter and the military invaders . Patrols hunting for them. Eventually, trouble arises when they kill a group of soldiers on patrol in the highlands. In the west mountains of America, the group of teenagers band together to defend their town, and their country, from invading Korean forces. Soon they will wage their own guerrilla warfare against the invading Soviet troops under the banner of "Wolverines!". When Marines die, we go to hell and regroup!. This Thanksgiving, The Fight Begins At Dawn !. Welcome to the Home of the Brave !. In America, heroes aren't raised !. They're orphaned !.

Despite scrupulously reconstructed battles and partisan raids, it military thesis is patently ridiculous. Exciting , entertaining and moving movie about an absurd invasion for invasion US that threatens American economic prosperity . The picture concerns a dangerous international terrorist army trying to destroy United States via some continued series of terrorist operations . It's a pulp movie of political war genre ; resulting to be quite bemusing . The history deals with cruel Korean soldiers causing destruction and panic , versus American patriots who fight strongly to vanquish them.

This is a routine and passable actioner, stars Chris Hemsworth as U. S. Marine Jed Eckert, resulting go be one of the best roles he'd made to date , as he's nice as tough, cold, stubborn soldier. He's well accompanied by a good cast of young newcomers who'll follow decent film careers, such as: Josh Peck, Josh Hutcherson, Adrianne Palicki, Isabel Lucas, Connor Cruise, Alyssa Diaz, Edwin Hodge, Will Yun Lee playing a nasty , ominous korean villain and veterans as Brett Cullen, Michael Beach and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

It's a predictable , shallow and brainless film though will appeal to warlike enthusiasts because of it contains some excellent action sequences . An agreeable and entertaining film, but the plot is almost ridiculous and senseless but it's developed in fast moving and numerous surprises and that's why it is amusing enough.

This paranoia-political-thriller movie has precedent in those films of the 50s and 60s in which take place fantastic invasion on America as ¨Sinister invasion or Invasion USA (1952)¨ by Alfred E Green and ¨Battle beneath the earth¨(1967) by Montomery Tully . The motion picture takes part of a genre which in the 80s achieved splendor, thus : ¨Red Dawn¨( by John Milius with Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe Tom Cruise) , US Invasion (by Joseph Zito with Chuck Norris) and ¨Amerika¨ ( by Donald Wyre with Kris Kristofferson) where the communists -Russkies generally- execute invasion on America.

The film was mediocrely shot by Don Bradley, without any originality, being his only film as a director . Bradley is a stuntsman and stunt coordinator who has worked in a lot of films. Bradley was originally cast as Jason Voorhees in Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part 1986), however after only a few days of shooting, he was replaced by C. J. Graham, some of his footage remains in the film, as he plays Jason during the paint balling sequence. Rating Red Dawn. 5/10 . Passable but mediocre reboot.

And I'm mostly talking about Josh Peck... if a better actor had played his role I think the movie could have been saved.

Hemsworth was solid as usual, Josh Hutcherson wasn't bad, Friday Night Lights girls was good...although she was overly dramatic towards the end... and Isabel Lucas was a total smoke show like she usually is.

But Peck made every scene he was in seem like a horrible high school play or a really bad acting class where the students are trying to "out drama" one another.

Also, the ending of this movie was stupid as heck. At least the original movie gave us some closure and let us know the outcome of the resistance and the war.

I'm sure this movie shows more or less how it looked when US forces dropped in to say hello in Iraq and Afghanistan. The 30 year old teenagers in this movie throw out mercilessly sub par dialog like "This is not their land. This is our back yard and we're going to fight for it," or "they killed our father, we have to fight or die." I'm sure that's what they said in Fallujah too when good ol' George W. sent his invading army to destroy their country. Aaameeerica, Aaameeerrrrriiiicaa!! God save them all, they do make me laugh and cry at the same time.

Enough has already been said in previous reviews about the wildly idiotic plot and lazy directing. Rather get the 1984 version. At least it had some heart in it, though the plot was just as ludicrous, playing on the strange fear of communism America has always fostered.

One more thing! Modern movies (this one being no exception) way overuse the lazy technique of compressing together various sorts of character growth sequences into a few minutes. It's very annoying and shows a lack of skill on everyones part.

The United States gets invaded by North Korea. That pretty much sums up the ludicrousness of the film. I mean, the original had Soviet Union being the invading force, which at least played to the fears and politics of the time. This didn't have the guts to go with Russia - although they kinda did - but couldn't they haven chosen anything else but North Korea?

Not that it really matters. The whole premise is silly, but so is the movie as a whole. And the worst thing is that it tries to take itself way too seriously. The tone is grim and dark, the characters suffer, there's death and dismemberment, the whole gruesome nine yards. And throughout this whole ordeal were supposed to believe that North Korea successfully invaded the only superpower of our time. Yeah... no.

And the worst thing is that I've seen this idea done much better. I haven't seen the original film, but there's a film called Tomorrow, When the War Began, released a few years before this one, which takes place in Australia and has China as the invading force. Well, they don't explicitly specify the nation. But it's China. And yes, it's a stupid, silly film as well, but it acknowledges it. It's a teenage action-comedy and has much greater camp value because of it. The main characters are teenagers, like in this film, but the ludicrousness of the situation is turned to the film's advantage through decent writing and characters. And it still gets to have its guns akimbo action scenes and character deaths needed to sell the point that war is not actually such a hot idea.

So, to summarize, if the premise interests you, see Tomorrow, When the War Began instead. Enough said.

This is a remake of the campy 80s classic. It stars Chris Hemsworth , Josh Hutcherson, Adrianne Palicki, Isabel Lucas, and Connor Cruise. There's nothing the actors could do to save this ridiculously illogical story.

Whereas the original had the US invaded by Russia and Latin America, this one is invaded by North Korea. At least the 80s version passed the smell test. This one is just too stupid. Originally, this 2012 version was supposed to be Chinese which actually had a chance. But the change is the new history of Hollywood financing. This movie was held up in editing hell. The Chinese money didn't like to be shown as the bad guys. So a painstaking re-editing changed all the Chinese soldiers into North Koreans.

As for the story, it's still basically the same idea. Except this time there is some kind of fantastical briefcase that explains the success of the foreign invaders. It just adds another element of disbelief into the movie. I like most of the actors in this, but there are too many unreasonable things to buy into.