An average movie

Nowadays, they make remakes for pretty much everything and, this time, they went for a feature from the 80's which might be considered as a cult-classic but even though I haven't seen it, I'm hardly convinced if it was any good to start with. Anyway, there was definitely something appealing about this concept and they could have made something worthwhile from this but, like a similar Australian production called 'Tomorrow, when the war begun' I have seen recently which was just as disappointing as this movie was, the tone was just off and it was obvious that they were not willing to take enough risks. Obviously, to make us believe that any nation could invade the USA is rather preposterous but that wasn't the main issue. The biggest problem is that you never believe that something really tragic is actually and most of the time, it felt like watching a video game. The weirdest thing was maybe to see Josh Peck who used be to this funny chubby kid in 'Drake and Josh' and, somehow, he has become another pretty face. Maybe he should take more acting classes instead of going to the gym because he wasn't really convincing but he did what he could with this material. To conclude, even though the whole thing had some potential, it was rather weak and I don't think it is really worth a look.

5/10