mikemorehouse At 1:45 into the movie, I noticed she was holding the chainsaw by the HAND GUARD, not the actual handle. Let me explain this..The hand guard is not a handle, it's a GUARD, made to prevent kickback injuries. This helps prevent you from disfiguring your head, face, neck and shoulders and keeping you ALIVE.So before I continued on, I went back to IMDB/Amazon to check the good/bad written reviews.I skipped to the action scenes and they're so ridiculous lol. These kids wouldn't stand any chance..then again, it's just a movie...at least make it a little bit more realistic?Again, I didn't watch the whole movie, so take this with a grain of salt. I imagine if you have no experience/knowledge in firearms/military/etc, it's probably believable and enjoyable.Australia would cave so fast (no offense). Better hope America and NATO protects them forever :P.

thecriticmaster I liked the story line, with a similar story line to Red Dawm, the location of the story was based in Australia not the USA. The suspense was good and most of it was filmed well. A few things didn't sit right, but otherwise good outcome. The set, the characters, graphics was fairly convincing.

grantss Very weak. Basically a made-for-(Australian) kids TV movie that somehow ended up on the big screen. Very implausible, unoriginal and full of plot holes (hence being made for kids - they wouldn't have seen something like this before, and the thought that the heroes can be teenagers will appeal to them).Acting is incredibly wooden.Saddest thing is that the movie is clearly set up for a sequel, so there is probably another movie like this on the way.Avoid.

Thomas_Fy Having read the books when I was very young, and largely forgotten them since, I came into this more or less blind.Having said that, either there were some major plot holes I missed as a child or there were some terrible decisions made. There are a lot of issues, the below are the four that annoyed me the most.Random civilian vehicles are never bulletproof, no matter how big they are. Neither are rotting wooden gates. Also, crashing tends to throw people inside the vehicle about, especially if they're not strapped in (double especially if they're not strapped in, in the bucket being used to do the ramming and already have a bullet wound).Petrol does not explode except for under very specific conditions, none of which are met in both times this is used, otherwise it just burns (the first time, I was legitimately wondering what she was up to. Is she making some kind of distraction? Then the lawn mower blew up and killed three soldiers). Normally I'd let a movie get away with this, but this is a fact I first learned from the books.There is an actual line in the movie where they say the book is usually better than the movie. This almost seems apologetic and pulled me out of the movie at a point I was hoping to be drawn back inThe invading army is laughably inept (despite invading the whole of Australia overnight), including using flashlights when trying to sneak up on the enemy, not shooting at oncoming vehicles, being chased from their posts by a herd of cows and not one but two military vehicles being outmaneuvered by a dump truck. About five of them also manage to get outflanked and wiped out at one point by a small girl with no weapons training (and probably never having held a gun before given her views on the world) who is suddenly strong enough to completely eliminate recoil on her fully automatic weapon It's a real shame, really. The movie starts strong, I enjoyed getting to know the characters, and their reactions throughout were usually quite believable. But the moment any real action occurred it just failed completely. Oh, and if the very last pose had been cut, the movie would have ended on a much better note.