ChikPapa
Very disappointed :(
Stometer
Save your money for something good and enjoyable
YouHeart
I gave it a 7.5 out of 10
TaryBiggBall
It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.
seanmurrayi
Oh man, any 'Simpsons' fans here remember that Y2K Halloween short where even a MILK CARTON goes wonky because "it contains a computer chip," just like everything else? This movie just about stretches the same goofy generalizations as the basis for its own premise while neglecting the fact that it works best as a JOKE and complete FARCE. They expect to be taken seriously here.This film's chief assertion is that EVERYTHING containing a computer chip is "Made in China", and the Chinese have pretty much been preparing to one day destroy America through these chips ever since Richard Nixon's visit to the country in the early 1970's.Even the Samsung Galaxy smartphone that was manufactured in South Korea, which I'm currently typing up this review on, contains nonexistent Chinese components that both the filmmakers and conspiracy theorists lapping all this up want to believe could one day cripple America. "Plausible, intriguing premise," my butt!If anybody truly believes in this movie's nonsense, rest assured that the biggest portion of US debt is created by national defense spending (which, thankfully, is not outsourced to China) and using the production output from those sectors to continue fighting pointless wars in desert. China has no reason to get involved in our debt when they can just sit back and wait for the US military industrial complex to collapse and eat itself.And don't even get me started on the goddamn wristbands...I haven't had so much fun ripping into a film's sincerest efforts to be taken seriously with so many logically unsound premises since I first watched 'Johnny Mnemonic'. This movie really is THAT idiotic.
paq5528
I have never given such a low rating before, but this movie had no redeeming factors and it therefore deserved such a dubious distinction.The acting was complete cardboard with most of the time my wishing the main characters would get killed off since they were so annoying. To add to the distaste, the characters simply weren't believable either.Add to that an extremely poor plot with more holes than my grandfather's underwear, with a great big dollop of the incredulity bred of a hundred plot points where you yourself could think your way out of it or it simply wasn't feasible, and you honestly have a sincere waste of time.
Jim Parks
If there was only a way to give zero stars, I would have.The Blu-Ray DVD arrived yesterday, and my son and I sat down to watch it last night. We'd been anticipating this movie, because the concept behind it (Chinese cyberattack against the US) seemed very interesting, and the trailer was cool(ish).Horrible acting, abysmal, wandering script, and nonsensical technical explanations of the attack. We ended up having fun anyway, because we just switched from "let's watch this cool new movie" mode to "let's make fun of this piece of XXXX movie" mode. As something to poke fun at, it has some value. Otherwise, I would have just turned it off.
berniebosma
Slow at times and at one time looking like the beginnings of the usual post-apocalyptic re-hash, but came out completely different. The usual American movies can't entertain the possibility that the people will largely roll over and accept occupation. There always has to be the triumphant fight-back.Here, it's a story of surrender and obey, with references to the current US debt debacle. The focus is on one family not yielding, but not being in a position to fight back either, so escape is the only option.Although at the end a spanner is thrown into the occupiers machinery.
