The 2012 Fantastic Fest Film Festival closes not with a bang but with a fart, one that reeks of jingoism and all the laziest, mindless and whorish aromas of Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking. The originator of this stench? Dan Bradley’s remake of the 1984 war movie Red Dawn. A tale of American high schoolers who fight back against a nefarious foreign invasion, this contemporary version was actually finished in 2010, only to be repeatedly delayed, first by MGM studios’ money woes, and then, absurdly, so the filmmakers could make alterations to film, changing via reshoots and digital alternations the nationality of its villains from Chinese to North Korean. Sadly, questionable racial politics are amongst the least of this action stinker’s problems.
Josh Peck (Drillbit Taylor) plays Matt Eckert, the son of a police officer in verdant Washington State, who’s forced to flee into the woods with his older brother Jed (Chris Hemsworth; The Avengers) and a group of his classmates after Chinese North Korean troops launch a full scale military invasion. Presented with a simple choice of surrender or fight, the youths decide to arm themselves and, after a rather ludicrous training montage, wage guerrilla warfare against the aggressors in an attempt to win back their nation.
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