Very Cool!!!

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Red Dawn (1984, starring Patrick Swayze) was an excellent movie with great acting and plausible plot.Invasion Day (2013, AKA "Dragon Day") is all of that and much more-- a highly realistic and very frightening portrayal of would could very possibly happen in the United States.As of 2351 hours GMT on August 8, 2016 the U.S. National Debt is in excess of $19.4 TRILLION USD. A trillion is 1,000 x billion.In the movie, the U.S. cannot pay China the money it wants and you can guess what happens.The film is not "big budget" and the actors are not recognizable stars but there are great performances and real drama in the movie.Technology plays a central role in the movie. Even experienced survivalists can learn a thing or two from Invasion Day/Dragon Day.

I liked the concept, it's relevant and has legs but I still have to say the writing, acting and timing was horrible. The delivery and character development was forced as was the writing. Audio post was like watching a bad soap. I'm not sure why rookie sound editors feel they need to fill silence with music. TIP: sometimes silence is golden and creates it's own tension. There are lots of unnecessary shots and a few unnecessary "artistic" shots (probably the directors cut - hah) If this had a few more bucks tossed at it for improvements on all the above this movie would have some great "Clancy'esque" potential, - however, it's an obvious low budget flick and I get that but I still couldn't finish it.

I actually was enjoying the movie, until I realized that it was a mere regurgitation of the old Yellow Peril xenophobia tripe that rears its ugly head in American cinema from time to time. As an American of Asian descent, I certainly felt as though the finger was being pointed at me for America's economic woes. What did I do?Really? The wicked Chinese want to take over America? Can't you do better than that? I'm glad I did not go to the theater to watch this - I certainly would have left the theater, if only to ensure my safety in a roomful of folks who had just watched a movie that plays up to every villainous, yellow peril, xenophobic stereotype in the book. The one clever thing about the movie was that it achieved this without actually resorting to using an arch-villain Asian character - now that was unusual. Maybe this shows up in the sequel.

Rarely do I not see a film through to the end, and I watch a lot. This was awful. The acting was very bad which is sad as the story line had promise. It was different and potentially possible. It wasn't just one bad actor but pretty much all of them. The only partially decent actors were the daughter and sister but they had small parts. Can't give it more than 1. I skipped through to the end to see how it ended as I hate not knowing! If you are buying it to watch....save your money. If you have nothing better to do and it's free then maybe with a couple of beers you won't notice!