Red Dawn

When the North Koreans invade Spokane, Washington, it's up to a group of teenagers led by ex U.S. Marine Jed (Chris Hemsworth) to take a stand.  Yeah.  Well in case you didn't know, Red Dawn is a remake of the 1984 film of the same title starring Patrick Swayze.  Unfortunately, it's not a remake in believability, acting charisma or talent, or any of the appeal that made the original good.  First, off it doesn't do a very good job of adequately establishing how (even tactically) and why the North Koreans would be invading America in such a grand manner.  If you've stomached through that implausible shit and gotten to the point of where the North Koreans have actually taken over the town, you'll find much more implausibility in these hunky-dory American teenagers all of a sudden learning how to fight a sophisticated guerrilla style war against a more sophisticated airmobile world army; oh and again led by (spoiler alert) an eventually martyred "Captain America" who in the short duration has to somehow impart growing up and being brave to his annoying younger brother Matt (Josh Peck) and the rest of the small-town scrubs who eventually become the infamous Wolverines militia with such an unrealistically  high reputation.   Throughout, I couldn't help but ask where everyone else was, like the fucking American military, the other adults to help them, and even more support for the North Koreans hunkered down in that town.  Eventually, the Wolverines run into 3 real Marines fighting the Koreans behind the enemy lines, who laughably seem so shocked and in awe of the group's reputation, as deep gaps in story logic allow them to perform professional clandestine operations with the Marines.  Just like the performances, everything in Red Dawn felt so small and unbelievably anemic like a bad tv show. This movie quickly degenerates and is akin to an after school kids special that was just impossible to even care about, as it lacked any sense of real urgency.  Red Dawn should not have even gotten to the show and was a waste of my time with it's corny, pretentious, homogenized patriotism.  That's the bottom line.  These days, I really abhor remakes done too soon; and more importantly, remade worse.