Friday, February 7, 2014

Red Dawn Review {100th post w00t!}


Well, I will say it's interesting to see the nerdy fat kid from Drake and Josh killing Koreans with an AK-47.

That may be one of my favorite starts to a post ever. Alright alright plot. It's not that tough with this one.

Korea gets the bright idea to airdrop troops over America, not sure who the fuck thought that was a good idea. Anyway Korea shows up and says hey we're in charge now. A marine just back from the front lines named Jed Eckert decides that he's so not going to take that shit, and recruits his brother and a group of their friends to form a guerrilla resistance unit to combat the Koreans. The group takes on the name Wolverines in honor of the local school mascot and begin to give their subjugators hell.

Idk if I hear a review of this that said it was shit, or I was associating it with the idea of the game Homefront, which I heard was shit, or if for some reason my brain just assumed this was shit, but for some reason I thought this was going to be shit. I was pleasantly surprised when it turned out to be not shit. It's not outstanding, fairly run of the mill really in terms of military action movies. Gunfights, bad guys dies, more gunfights, good guys die, more bad guys die, explosions, more gunfights, more bad guys dying. There's nothing earth shattering here, you're not going to be missing some truly impressive if you skip this film, but I do feel like my thinking this was going to be shit (whatever the reason behind that) was incorrect. Everything here has been done before but it is done fairly well here. If you're looking for something to kill some time with you could do a lot worse than this.

6.5 insane koreans who thought invading America would go over smoothly, out of 10


Fun fact: This post average one usage of the word "shit" every other sentence, not sure why I was using that word so much today.

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