Better than most people think

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Let me start by saying I joined IMDb today just to leave this review. I decided to do this after I noticed that 70 something people gave this film a rating of 10. Clearly these people are the cast/crew and their friends. You people have no shame. This movie is terrible, I haven't seen the like since Troll 2. It is amazingly terrible, although it was incredibly hilarious for me to watch, and I may do it again. The first thing I noticed was that the cinematography was akin to surveillance footage or an old home movie, and it was clear the camera operator had no clue what he/she was doing. I was then rudely interrupted by the blank expressions, and forced dialog between the characters. In one scene the little girl and her aunt are watching the city burn. I believe the intention here was to have the girl cling to her aunt for comfort so you could see the vulnerability of the young girl. What I saw instead was the girl looking very uncomfortable being forcefully pressed against the body of a stranger.Everything I've mentioned so exists in tons of movies, especially ones about America collapsing. I would have never felt the need to leave this review if it weren't for the most glaringly terrible thing about this movie. The writing. I could sit here and tell about you some hilarious quotes from the movie, but there are so many, and really you should just watch it for yourself. The plot however, is amazing. It's based on some sort of misplaced paranoia about Chinese electronics. What happens is the Chinese government decides to collect on our "debt" to them, and they do this by shutting down all electronics that have Chinese chips, which the author assumes are in every vehicle or device manufactured since 1976. First let me say this is impossible even if the Chinese were putting back-doors on their chips. Second we don't owe China anything, they own American bonds. It's like owning stock in our country, if we do good their bonds are worth more and they do good. For this and other reasons if they destroyed American consumerism they would destroy themselves. Another hilarious thing about this story were the wristbands that you are supposed to wear after the "invasion". When you put them on your wrist they instantly know your name, and if you walk 100ft away from your house after 3pm your wrist will "start burning", then somehow you die. I'm assuming they are supposed to be killed by electrocution, but whats up with the "burning" that happens for like 3 min before they die? Why doesn't the bracelet just electrocute them? Probably has to do with the fact that batteries don't have enough amperage to kill someone. They would get shocked, maybe burned, then the thing would shut off because the battery would die. Anyway, how are you supposed to charge those things when you can't take them off. Just sit by the outlet 6hrs a day I guess.All in all I do actually feel bad for the guy who wrote, directed, and produced this movie, but come on man, you should have never picked up a pen. Also you and your crew are scum for giving this movie a 10. I know even you don't believe it deserves that. Anyway at this point you should be marketing this as an intentionally bad movie or a comedy. You'd probably get this movie more attention if you gave it the rating it deserves.

Thought this film was a good idea when I read about it and thought something like this could happen, but wished I hadn't spent my time. That's time I can never get back. It may be a low budget film but it looks cheap and the acting is so bad that acting seriously can't be their day job. I think the child and the horse are probably the best actors in it. One thing I can't believe though is how I managed to sit and watch this tripe. I guess I was hoping it would get better......but it didn't. I usually look on here first before watching a movie but I didn't with this one, suppose that'll teach me.GIVE IT A MISS!!!!!!!!!

After seeing some bad reviews I was expecting a boring movie, but it was totally the opposite. If you are not the type of person that need to see the million dollar effects and the top paid actors to enjoy a movie, you will not regret watching this one. The possible fact of the USA not able to paid their debt and the massive cyber-attack that follows make a very interesting idea. It has a good plot, nice filming and it's great how they manage to make a movie on this complicate subject with a really low budget ($200.000). I would like to see the same movie, same idea, same director, same writer but with a Hollywood budget!

It could have been a great story, with this actors in place and a lovely set - low budget or not - this could have been a great movie. The nationalistic undertone: 'only American goods is good' and all the stereotypes shows clearly, the director Jeffrey Travis has no clue about modern psychology - how people act in real situations and he forced the actors to be in high gear on the beginning of nearly every cut. Like when a car is running in first gear and full speed all the way. The body language will automatically be unnatural and artificial. Actors in Blockbuster movies have the same arms and legs and body - they just use them on a more elegant way - by switching to second, third, fourth and fifth gear in acting. Results in more calm actors and balanced, higher speed.And technical it is fare out. As Engineer I have designed enough chips to know they only can do simple things. Switch on some pixels on a screen, or off. All are designed by different people, with different ideas, and doing different stuff. They will never, ever work together! One code does not work on another chip from another company. Apple code does not work on Android Phones etc. And last but not least: Japanese People are working together in large corporate structures. Chinese people do never act as one. They have always in history worked in clans and families. Mao did try to change this to a collective structure, without very much luck. Now in 2013 they are back in the old family structures again: "My family is producing chips for Apple and hates your family, because they producing for Microsoft....Google... whatever" This is the reality, when we are living and working in China today.The suspicious mind of our ancestors the monkeys can still show up in all parts of our earth. Like in this movie... Do not make the world a saver place, do not wake up people, only spread unnecessary fear and takes hope from many people. Producing enemies is easy, producing friends anywhere is a lot harder.