Dragon Day (2013)

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Well I stayed til the end, you know, just to see.Was not expecting much as I found online over on the YT channel, & was not found to be wanting. While some ideas were well filmed eg: smokey wreckage, sadly to much was left to to few. Acting like it was a school project filmed for credits. Invasion Day/ DD really is a piece of work.

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.

OK first off.I Start with the low budget that was used for the film.And i compare it to high budget films.To be honest with everyone When a film keeps me watching it from start to finish for me its a winner.And i think all the cast and crew did a brilliant job.The director directed it well.OF Course there are people that think its far fetched.But I've seen blockbusters more far fetched than this.Also its the first time out for the director.And working on this type of budget he did a great job.Also the lead role in this Ethan Flower made it more believable to me.You leave the film thinking just what if something like this could happen.When i watched this film i was surprised how good it was.And for me at the moment there's to much computer graphics in high budget films and stories bland.So give it a try you may be pleasantly surprised.Just how good it is.

Dragon Day was a compelling film to watch and kept me riveted to the very end. Although clearly a very low-budget movie, it did not suffer from frequent ills of indie films-- the pacing is very rapid, and the story unfolds quickly, and I admire the filmmakers for boldly taking on such a big topic with such limited means.The movie deals with Duke Evans, an ex-NSA engineer, who heads to a remote mountain cabin with his family. While there, the USA is attacked in some fashion through a cyberattack that shuts down all modern systems including electricity and water supplies. The film suggests that the attack comes from China because of our failure to pay our debt.During the film, we see the chaos of this cyberattack as if through a peephole-- only what the main characters see. Although I found myself wishing there were more scenes showing the bigger effects of the disaster, it forced me to stay with the family and experience it as they experienced it.One of my favorite characters in the film was the Mexican illegal immigrant Alonso. His appearance as a critical part of the story was moving and unexpected. The ending managed to steer clear of clichés and was a thought-provoking turn into something different. It had my friend who saw it with me talking about it for quite a while.