Australian Version of Red Dawn

[TopDog]

Tomorrow When The War Began

Just watched it tonight on NetFlix. Anyone else seen this?
Looks like the Australians were determined to beat the release of the new (2012 American version) of Red Dawn. This was released the end of 2010. I had never heard of it before. Not a direct parallel of Red Dawn but the premiss is the same. The Chinese invade Australia.

This one is told from the perspective of a teenage Australian girl. The girl is the apparent leader even though one of the male characters tries to lead. The girl also makes the first enemy kill. The first enemy kill also happens to be a girl. She also makes the second and third kills - enemy vehicles. Starting to get a feel for the movie? More than a few scenes of the girls talking about feelings. One of the little gab sessions allows enemy soldiers to sneak up on them. This movie is obviously to promote strong female characters from a female perspective.

To sum up, a group of teenagers fight a guerrilla war against an invading force.

Unfortunately it comes off as more of a odd movie than a action/drama.
I give it a two out of five stars.

 

[remauto1187]

Tomorrow When The War Began

Just watched it tonight on NetFlix. Anyone else seen this?
Looks like the Australians were determined to beat the release of the new (2012 American version) of Red Dawn. This was released the end of 2010. I had never heard of it before. Not a direct parallel of Red Dawn but the premiss is the same. The Chinese invade Australia.

This one is told from the perspective of a teenage Australian girl. The girl is the apparent leader even though one of the male characters tries to lead. The girl also makes the first enemy kill. The first enemy kill also happens to be a girl. She also makes the second and third kills - enemy vehicles. Starting to get a feel for the movie? More than a few scenes of the girls talking about feelings. One of the little gab sessions allows enemy soldiers to sneak up on them. This movie is obviously to promote strong female characters from a female perspective.

To sum up, a group of teenagers fight a guerrilla war against an invading force.

Unfortunately it comes off as more of a odd movie than a action/drama.
I give it a two out of five stars.

Im a big red dawn fan. Ill have to download it and check it out.

Rep inbound

 

[GI JOE]

Lol I was bored one night at work and checked it out. Neat idea, kinda cheesy. The lead female was super hot though!

 

[remauto1187]

Lol I was bored one night at work and checked it out. Neat idea, kinda cheesy. The lead female was super hot though!

Super Hot? <you now have my full attention> .... Im downloading now!

 

[snorko]

I just searched for this at my library and turns out it is a book series, three volumes published in the 1990's

 

[threefiftyfour]

so wait, Hollywood is remaking another movie? I for one am shocked

 

[squidvt]

I saw it. I liked the movie. Made the case for WSTF. The main female character is smoking hot. Over all I liked the movie.

 

[Dybber]

I'll check it out. I tried to watch 20 years after last might and couldn't make it through 15 minutes of the movie. Seems to be a poor selection of movies on NetFlix.

 

[TopDog]

I'll check it out. I tried to watch 20 years after last might and couldn't make it through 15 minutes of the movie. Seems to be a poor selection of movies on NetFlix.

I actually think there is a very good selection of movies on NetFlix. Especially among foreign fair like English and Canadian TV series.

 

[BuddieReigns]

It was ok kind of. Supposedly they're making a sequel, which probably won't be better, but hopefully will. This one ended right before anything really cool could happen.

 

[netsecurity]

Disappointing ending. I kept waiting to see them get tough.

 

[thej27]

Saw it one night it was okay