BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

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.

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.

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.