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You Australians should just stick to producing awesome tv shows:

Who needs a lightsaber when I have my fucking transducer beootch.

Hey how was that show named again? A remember watching that ages ago. Pretty much don't remember a thing (looooong time ago) only that it was good.

Hey how was that show named again? A remember watching that ages ago. Pretty much don't remember a thing (looooong time ago) only that it was good.

Just got back from seeing this with Chris O'Farrell.

It was surprisingly un-terrible.

Some random initial thoughts:-

* Some of the acting is really bad. Lee (asian dude), especially, is obviously in the running for the Hayden Christensen award. I was always expecting him to start talking about sand.

* The 'Coalition' enemy soldiers are a bit too science-fiction - they're dressed completely in black and have these weird helmets and bulky body armor. Why they're dressed in black is a mystery - it's almost as if they knew that every action scene would take place at night, when their uniforms wouldn't look as ridiculous!

* The CGI can be a bit shonky. Whoever did the CGI model for our F/A-18s canted the tail fins outward at a ridiculous angle.

* I still don't know what the Coalition fighters were supposed to be. They looked like a cross between the HAL Tejas, the Chengdu J-10, the Mirage series - any delta wing you care to name.

Still, the action scenes were pretty entertaining- the chase with the garbage truck was especially amusing, even if it was complete bullshit - I didn't know the cab of garbage trucks was impervious to assault rifle and machine gun fire.

I've heard it suggested they're Japanesian, a combination of Japan and Indonesia/Malaysian. No idea about their language, though.

I don't mean to be mean to my own state...but what's there to invade? I mean, after staying in Orange for a couple of weeks, I'm convinced that the only thing worth anything there was the pub.

Apologies for the necro, but this film is now showing in redbox rental kiosks in the States; and I rented it.

My favorite part was how the 'war' managed to go on and on, with the Asian Coalition putting ashore 500,000 troops (mentioned on a radio broadcast) -- somehow the US Navy mysteriously ceased to exist.

Wait, you mean a mysterious Asian power invading central NSW is implausible? Thanks for lifting the veil from eyes!

I've heard it suggested they're Japanesian, a combination of Japan and Indonesia/Malaysian. No idea about their language, though.

An Eastern Coalition, headed perhaps by Lloyd Bochner...?*

*an old-Battlestar Galactica reference —and shamelessly lifted from the old SciFi Universe magazine

IIRC the reason given that the US didn't get involved because they were afraid of another Vietnam and were the ones that eventually brokered the peace deal, but were more than happy to more or less give heaps of gear to New Zealand to help out, which is kind of adorable now that I think about it. Like a Jack Russell with a rocket launcher trying to fight a Grizzly bear.

It also makes more sense if you realise the author wrote it because he was alarmed at the complete lack of thought the country was giving to its own defence, assuming the US would do it all, and that it was written in the mid 90's, when the US seemed far less likely to go war fighting anywhere, really.