…and I said as much at the Washington Times in my review of the film:
Announced in 2008, the new version was shot in 2009 from a script premised on an invasion of America’s West Coast by Chinese forces come to collect on America’s defaulted bilateral debt. But when MGM, the studio that produced the film, hit financial difficulties, the completed project was shelved. It did not find a distributor until 2011, and is only now reaching audiences.
In the intervening years, the filmmakers decided in a fit of craven commercialism that it would be costly to alienate the Chinese market, and digitally altered the film’s villains from Chinese to North Korean. Rather than the flag of the CCP, the invading hordes fly the colors of the DPRK.
Small problem: America didn’t survive decades of Cold War and the brink of nuclear annihilation only to get taken down 20 years later by second-string commies from North Korea.
More at the link.
BONUS RED DAWN ACTION: Keep your eyes peeled for a longer essay on the way in which globalism ruined this film. It’ll be at FreeBeacon.com on Friday.
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Serious question: Does the film even attempt to explain how North Korea managed to challenge/invade the US? If so, I’d love to hear it.
THEY CAME UP WITH A NEW WEAPON, MAN.
You’re the man, Bunch. Loved the review’s ending, btw.
Not too over the top? Just the right amount of over the top?