The United States of America are invaded by a U.S.S.R.-led coalition of troops. A group of teenagers take refuge in the mountains and engage in violent resistance against the invaders.
Military dramatic adventure with a weirdly unrealistic plot. I am not talking about the premise -- think what you will about that -- but the development. As some have noted, the resistance group never grows, which is kind of odd. Nobody comes to join them, and they, in turn, never make an effort to contact other groups. It is really hilarious. It is not a well made film, in the sense that, apart from action scenes, it lacks dramatic and scenic elaboration. At times, characters just stand there, like living dolls or something. At other times, they engage in trite dialogue. All that being said, it is not a worthless film. If there is one American with a minimum of historical conscience, he will see in this film a mirror image of what they did to South Vietnam. The only difference is that Vietnam happened, and this did not.
Rating: 30 (up from 23)
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