The film crew chose a very good selection of actors for this film such as: Caitlin Stasey, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Lincoln Lewis, Deniz Akdeniz, Phoebe Tonkin, Chris Pang, Ashleigh Cummings, Andrew Ryan and many more. Most of these actors having experience in the Australian soap Home and Away.
I find that the film erupts too quickly into a burning bloody mess of bodies, jets, helicopters and tanks. Also i find it rather strange that simple teenagers seem to be able to quickly a mass into a fully fighting elite squad that seem to be able to dodge the never ending enslaught of forgien men with fully equiped body armour and modern guns. But yet perhaps this is what makes the film so individual to its category of action-adventure.
With good credit to Stuart Beattie (Director) and John Marsden (Author of the book) i belive this film has more of an underline content about how the Asian boy in the film Lee is slightly isolated from the group because he is different to the others yet once they start to work as a group the others then start to realise a quality that they are equal are in the same mess together. This shows a moral or message from the film that everyone is equal and has a right.
Now with linking this in with games. This film as a some what direct story line to the lately realised game Homefront which is about North Korea slowly dominating every where which slightly links to the film where a forgien force i slowly taking Australia and its people.
Now to conclude i would give this film a 5 / 10 this is because i enjoyed the conflict scenes and the parts were they show the stunning landscape but i was dis-heartented by the speed of the story. But if you do massivly enjoy this film then you'll be excited to hear that they have enouced a number 2. So feel free to comment if you have anything to say or counter :D .