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I don't understand the reasoning behind some of the reviews for this film. It's fiction,so relating it to real life events is to no purpose.

For me,it was reminiscent of 'Threads',in that it posited the idea of a devastating event which changed everyday life in a bad way,though with contemporary ideas:technology rather than nuclear devastation.

The acting was good for the most part and it did not rely on spectacular special effects.

Instead,it acheived an extremely chilling effect as the story unfolded gradually.

I,for one,was left feeling that the scenario was not entirely unbelievable.

It engrossed me sufficiently to recommend it to anyone who thinks seriously about the state of our world and it's implications.

The preposterous premise of "Dragon Day," also known as "Invasion Day," is that the United States owes so much money to China that the Chinese just decide to invade.

By secretly placing malicious code into every electronic product manufactured in China, it effectively shuts down all communication, transportation, banking, etc.

What would China have to gain by coming into our country and ruining it, virtually guaranteeing we'd never be able to pay them back?

Now, because this movie cost less than your sofa to make, we aren't supposed to ask questions like that.

Actually, we don't see this invasion play out on the world stage at all.

No joke, this entire movie is about how the invasion of the United States by the People's Republic of China affects one guy and his family in their Oregon vacation home.

They get assaulted by hillbillies! They get threatened by cops! They run out of Coca-Cola!

Check it: There's one Chinese guy in this whole movie, and ironically he never meets this family.

One time, two starving kids knock on the door, and they each get handed a potato. That's it. You never see those kids again.

You'll just be going, "Wait, what?" at every turn of the plot, but you won't be able to take your eyes off it. This movie is like that weirdo bag lady who gets on the subway talking to herself, and your mom says, "Don't stare!" But you do. Because you can't not.

This movie was bad all around. The acting was terrible and timing was bad. cinematography timing and quality all bad. Story as it progressed was unbelievable and unrealistic. script was just really, really bad. unsuccessful knockoff of red dawn. This really was one of the worst movies I watched this year but it was all I had. I have seen sci-fi channel movies that were better than this. Watch it if you want but you won't get that time back. I don't even know what else to say about it to take up the remaining ten lines. I guess if you are really bored you could watch it and be entertained by how bad it is. Some people are into that kind of thing...

The good people of the P.R. of C. suddenly decide they've just about had it with the U.S. of A.'s outstanding debt and subsequently pull the proverbial rug from under their feet by activating some secret backdoor that renders all Chinese microprocessor powered machinery useless. America grinds to a halt, the Chinese starve them into submission, chaos ensues. Blah. Blah.

As if the underlying premise wasn't idiotic enough, the acting, the directing and the editing made short work of everything else. Rarely have I ever seen a movie as lame and as pitiful as "Dragon Day".

In a twisted sort of way, I'm actually glad I soldiered on until the end as sure enough the ending was the icing on the cake, with the protagonist once again resorting to an act of unspeakable stupidity involving a (Chinese made, I'll bet) power tool. You HAVE GOT to see it to believe it.

The fact that garbage such as this actually gets funded is in and of itself far more of a threat to America's integrity than anything an enemy could conjure up from the outside.

What a great story. This movie has the storyline of a big budget movie. Definitely worth watching.

Now, I have to say that the acting was a bit spotty. It wasn't uniformly great, but pretty good nonetheless. Largely, the problem with the acting was bad timing, and I don't think that was the actor's faults. There were scenes where the cinematography was a bit off and editing could have been better. The action scenes were a bit stifled and could have done with better choreography. There was definitely a place for some big action and explosions, but this movie (I'm assuming because of a constrained budget) didn't go that route. But, again, overall a good movie. This is one of those low budget movies that could be really successfully remade into a blockbuster. That said, this movie stands head and shoulders above other low budget movies I've seen.

In short: Worth watching.

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!

Low budget films can flop if they start too slow, but this one has some pace. The story was very intelligent, not overly complicated. The plot was simple, believable and no obvious holes. The directing was very good, give Mr. Travis a real budget :). The acting was average to decent, except the wife (Wallander), who's expressions at times left me confused to irritated. Maybe that's what she was going for.

The best part of the movie is the concept and plot. I'm a fan of IT as well as lo-tech, and who doesn't think about what you would do if things went sour. This has it all, and watching it you might learn a few things. It really makes you think.

Not wasted time at all, I was pleasantly surprised and would watch it again if friends ask.

The movie is total disaster. Do not waste your time.

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.

This film was so bad even it could not achieve the greatness of, say, Plan 9 from Outer Space. The acting was wooden, the storyline was ridiculously unrealistic and yet it did show the extent to which America relies on the country it currently vilifies. This is a film that, consciously or not, will contribute to intensified international tensions because it appeals against rationality in favour of scapegoats identified via a naive and childish prejudice. Watch it, but pay no attention to it.

Thought this film was a good idea when I read about it and thought something like this could happen, but wished I hadn't spent my time. That's time I can never get back. It may be a low budget film but it looks cheap and the acting is so bad that acting seriously can't be their day job. I think the child and the horse are probably the best actors in it. One thing I can't believe though is how I managed to sit and watch this tripe. I guess I was hoping it would get better......but it didn't.

I usually look on here first before watching a movie but I didn't with this one, suppose that'll teach me.

GIVE IT A MISS!!!!!!!!!

An awfully terrible movie with bad acting, bad writing, and bad editing. It's so bad it's awful. It's worse than.

I stumbled upon this movie on Prime and the trailer caught my interest so I thought 🤷‍♀️ Why not? I am SO glad I did!!!! I thought the the cast and acting was amazing especially for the fact it was more of a "low budget film" and the story to me seemed right on point with "What could be".... Then I realized this movie was made in 2013!!!!!! If this is not a possible foreshadowing of what is to come, I don't know what is!!!!!! All I can recommend is to open up your mind and allow for other visions of what could possibly be into your awareness.

Please open your eyes before it's too late. I will get off my soapbox and kindly extend my hope that you will enjoy this movie as much as I did.

The basic plot is that the Chinese use their technological advantages to bring down the US. , This idea might sound fanciful but the fact is the threat is real enough that there was a fake congressional inquiry into it. Back door code HAS been found in Chinese chips. The bigger threat however is Chinese and Pakistani guest workers. Few Defense projects happen without using subcontractors who subcontract work to companies employing Chinese, Russian and Pakistani employees. Indian subcontractors are also a risk. Some of these are intelligence agents for hostile governments and corporate spies, specifically there to steal technology. That and put back doors in our core infrastructure. This is a HUGE national security problem.

A key element of the movie is Americans turning against this country to aid China. The Antifa/BLM protests make it loud and clear how many Americans would do exactly that. Every person you saw burning or stomping on an American flag in those protests and online videos would happily put on the red bracelets shown in the movie. Do it without any coercion at all.

The acting isn't especially good, and the camera work isn't Hollywood quality. The spews on the national debt come off as tin foil conspiracy the way it's presented. Our debt is indeed a real problem, but it's not as cut and dried as presented.

The real take away from the movie should be how many people who live in the US and many even have US citizenship, many born here, who would turn on the US in a heartbeat. Those who cheered on or even tolerated big stars bad mouthing the US overseas are a great example of people who'd line up for Chinese citizenship. Then there are the apolitical who would sign up for anything long as it kept them fed and secure.

There are Hollywood style mistakes. For example no programmer was consulted when it came to the "back door code". You do not write something that complex in pure assembler. Nor would you spend ten minutes fixing it like that. That code would be tens of thousands of lines and if they had the source they wouldn't need him to fix it. Any programmer with source code and a little time can decipher any program. Even if you did not have the source, one could reverse engineer it from the binaries.

There are gaffes. For example in one scene the kid is going potty right next to a pond full of water. Then later in the story everyone is dying of thirst.

Overall the story is very interesting even if it's B grade action, acting and special effects. The warning should ring loudly. By outsourcing our technology and importing workers we are destroying our nation's independence and ability to compete.

Microsoft GAVE China the source code to Windows. Yet China uses Linux on all it's secure government computers. The US does not have the source code to Windows, and uses Windows on some of it's secure computers. That is begging to be hacked, and just one of many signs of how negligent the US government and large corporations are in cyber security. Just to make it interesting, Pakistanis wrote substantial portions of the code used in Windows. Pakistan and China are very cozy allies at this time. Continued use of guest workers by Microsoft makes it yet easier to introduce back doors that even Microsoft is not aware of. Microsoft places back doors in every product and has made China fully aware of them. So even if the chips were not a problem, any system running Windows would be.

The bigger warning is the division in the US is so deep that some have come to believe patriotism itself is evil. Globalism and Socialism would lead many to turn on this nation The alienation of so many voter blocks in the DNC from the nation as exemplified by kneeling at the National anthem and derogatory remarks about the US made by so many entertainers and athletes makes it clear that any invasion of the US would be aided by a very large number of people living here. Something that hasn't escaped the notice of the Russians and Chinese who have quietly funded groups like BLM/Antifa, the Reconquistador movement, and other anti-American groups/movements.

Something not presented in the movie is the high level of infiltration in US high ranking politicians by Chinese and Russian agents. 3 times in the last decade Chinese agents have been caught deep in the confidence of very high ranking Democrats. Twice caught sneaking classified information stolen from those politicians. A number of Republican groups have been linked to Russian and Saudi money. A number of Democrats linked to Iranian money. So you have to question what you hear from politicians or on the news as to whether it's propaganda paid for by the Chinese, Russians or Iranians or real. What's scarier is the odd twist of search terms you have to use to find the articles substantiating these claims. Microsoft, Google and Yahoo all bury information that is embarrassing to China. The articles by reputable sources are still out there. You just have to do some digging to find them. For example articles about the Chinese spy who drove Fienstien around for a decade, all the while collecting information from being around her while she sat on some of the highest level security committees are still out there. You just have to jiggle the search a bit to find them.

I am a certified computer security specialist CISSP among other security certs with over 20 years of experience as a programmer and security analyst. When I say the premise of the movie is not so far fetched I am doing so with some expertise on the matter.

Oh man, any 'Simpsons' fans here remember that Y2K Halloween short where even a MILK CARTON goes wonky because "it contains a computer chip," just like everything else? This movie just about stretches the same goofy generalizations as the basis for its own premise while neglecting the fact that it works best as a JOKE and complete FARCE. They expect to be taken seriously here.

This film's chief assertion is that EVERYTHING containing a computer chip is "Made in China", and the Chinese have pretty much been preparing to one day destroy America through these chips ever since Richard Nixon's visit to the country in the early 1970's.

Even the Samsung Galaxy smartphone that was manufactured in South Korea, which I'm currently typing up this review on, contains nonexistent Chinese components that both the filmmakers and conspiracy theorists lapping all this up want to believe could one day cripple America. "Plausible, intriguing premise," my butt!

If anybody truly believes in this movie's nonsense, rest assured that the biggest portion of US debt is created by national defense spending (which, thankfully, is not outsourced to China) and using the production output from those sectors to continue fighting pointless wars in desert. China has no reason to get involved in our debt when they can just sit back and wait for the US military industrial complex to collapse and eat itself.

And don't even get me started on the goddamn wristbands...

I haven't had so much fun ripping into a film's sincerest efforts to be taken seriously with so many logically unsound premises since I first watched 'Johnny Mnemonic'. This movie really is THAT idiotic.