Okay, I guess most of us have seen the original Red Dawn, and despite its flaws it holds a special place in my heart as one of the few movies that deals with WW3 in a non-apocalyptic manner. That it had high production values certainly didn't hurt, and sometimes John Milius just knows what he's doing. This new one, however...



In case you haven't heard it: the enemies who invade the US are... the North Koreans. You know, the country that's been perpetually starving for the past three decades. Whose tallest soldiers are six inches smaller than South Korea's tallest. Whose armed forces generally operate on a level of technology that would've made the 1970s Soviet Union roll over with laughter. Whose airforce needed hell to freeze over to even come close to parachute massive formations into the USA.



These are the ones we are supposed to believe used an EMP in this movie to completely neuter US defenses, invaded the West Coast in force, wiped out CENTCOM...



You know, who needed a remake of RED DAWN in the first place? There's no credible enemy to fit the storyline in a context that's supposed to take place in the here and now! That, and it looks worse than the original...