I felt good for the first five minutes of the film, but that’s only because of a surreal scene where a US neighborhood gets invaded by a bunch of paratroopers. Explosions, warplanes overhead, and hundreds of paratroopers falling from the sky. The feeling is similar to when I saw the Twin Towers burn. It’s just sureal. But after dawning comprehension that the paratroopers falling from the sky were in fact, North Koreans, a lot of subsequent head scratching went on for the most part of the film.
“Red Dawn” is simply North korea successfully occupying the US with the help of Russia. The bad guys disabled the entire US communications by using a massive EMP shockwave. Since there is no US Military to respond to the invasion, a tiny group of civilians team up to fight North Korean soldiers.
Why, in the first place, would a bunch of North Koreans want to invade territory thousands of miles away? Well, they want to FREE THE AMERICANS FROM THE TYRANNY AND DICTATORSHIP OF WALL STREET. (Who wrote this film?!)
So much for the coming-out film of Josh Peck (fat kid on the Nickelodeaon show “Drake & Josh”). Even Chris Hemsworth couldn’t do justice to the atrocity.
Fine, “Red Dawn” is a movie, not History Channel, but it would still make viewers squirm over the blatant inaccuracy that litter the film:
#1. There is absolutely no US Military available to respond. Let’s forget about the slim chance of a successful invasion of the US and say that the CIA and US Military somehow overlooked this scenario. Let’s fortget about the fact that the US has the most advanced military in the world. Where is the US ARMY?? That’s probably the biggest question everyone in the theater is asking.
#2. Alright, say the bulk of the US MILITARY is somewhere in the Pacific meddling with affairs not of their own. Where have all the gun-crazy Americans gone? There are millions of civilian gun carriers in the US, and the movie serves me with a ragtag team of amateurs left to save the day? Who are left to steal guns and ammo from the bad guys. Who, with pep talk from Chris Hemsworth, become expert saboteurs and guerilla fighters in one day. Where have all the Texans gone?
#3. North Korea does not have a blue water navy – which is crucial for any invasion. It cannot even invade SOUTH KOREA, for crying out loud. And more importantly, if it wanted to attack the United States, it would you know, fire an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile with a nuclear warhead, and kapoosh! Cheaper, more destructive, more effective. Then again, we need a movie, albeit crappy, so like, carpe diem.
#4. I would fail all my courses in foreign policy, international relations, diplomacy, and international systems if I even defended this movie. I really suspect that a ten-year old kid who plays a lot of Command and Conquer wrote this film. The POINT of a movie is to make the audience BELIEVE.
Overall, the film is just an excuse to put Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Josh Hutcherson (Hunger Games), and Josh Peck (Drake & Josh) together for no reason at all. Throw in a couple of chicks Isabel Lucas (Transformers) and Adrianne Palicki (Legion) to make it a dick flick, and it still fails to be a dick flick at all. That’s just pathetic.
Pitasyo 