Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Let me start by saying I joined IMDb today just to leave this review. I decided to do this after I noticed that 70 something people gave this film a rating of 10. Clearly these people are the cast/crew and their friends. You people have no shame. This movie is terrible, I haven't seen the like since Troll 2. It is amazingly terrible, although it was incredibly hilarious for me to watch, and I may do it again. The first thing I noticed was that the cinematography was akin to surveillance footage or an old home movie, and it was clear the camera operator had no clue what he/she was doing. I was then rudely interrupted by the blank expressions, and forced dialog between the characters. In one scene the little girl and her aunt are watching the city burn. I believe the intention here was to have the girl cling to her aunt for comfort so you could see the vulnerability of the young girl. What I saw instead was the girl looking very uncomfortable being forcefully pressed against the body of a stranger.Everything I've mentioned so exists in tons of movies, especially ones about America collapsing. I would have never felt the need to leave this review if it weren't for the most glaringly terrible thing about this movie. The writing. I could sit here and tell about you some hilarious quotes from the movie, but there are so many, and really you should just watch it for yourself. The plot however, is amazing. It's based on some sort of misplaced paranoia about Chinese electronics. What happens is the Chinese government decides to collect on our "debt" to them, and they do this by shutting down all electronics that have Chinese chips, which the author assumes are in every vehicle or device manufactured since 1976. First let me say this is impossible even if the Chinese were putting back-doors on their chips. Second we don't owe China anything, they own American bonds. It's like owning stock in our country, if we do good their bonds are worth more and they do good. For this and other reasons if they destroyed American consumerism they would destroy themselves. Another hilarious thing about this story were the wristbands that you are supposed to wear after the "invasion". When you put them on your wrist they instantly know your name, and if you walk 100ft away from your house after 3pm your wrist will "start burning", then somehow you die. I'm assuming they are supposed to be killed by electrocution, but whats up with the "burning" that happens for like 3 min before they die? Why doesn't the bracelet just electrocute them? Probably has to do with the fact that batteries don't have enough amperage to kill someone. They would get shocked, maybe burned, then the thing would shut off because the battery would die. Anyway, how are you supposed to charge those things when you can't take them off. Just sit by the outlet 6hrs a day I guess.All in all I do actually feel bad for the guy who wrote, directed, and produced this movie, but come on man, you should have never picked up a pen. Also you and your crew are scum for giving this movie a 10. I know even you don't believe it deserves that. Anyway at this point you should be marketing this as an intentionally bad movie or a comedy. You'd probably get this movie more attention if you gave it the rating it deserves.

If there was only a way to give zero stars, I would have.The Blu-Ray DVD arrived yesterday, and my son and I sat down to watch it last night. We'd been anticipating this movie, because the concept behind it (Chinese cyberattack against the US) seemed very interesting, and the trailer was cool(ish).Horrible acting, abysmal, wandering script, and nonsensical technical explanations of the attack. We ended up having fun anyway, because we just switched from "let's watch this cool new movie" mode to "let's make fun of this piece of XXXX movie" mode. As something to poke fun at, it has some value. Otherwise, I would have just turned it off.

It could have been a great story, with this actors in place and a lovely set - low budget or not - this could have been a great movie. The nationalistic undertone: 'only American goods is good' and all the stereotypes shows clearly, the director Jeffrey Travis has no clue about modern psychology - how people act in real situations and he forced the actors to be in high gear on the beginning of nearly every cut. Like when a car is running in first gear and full speed all the way. The body language will automatically be unnatural and artificial. Actors in Blockbuster movies have the same arms and legs and body - they just use them on a more elegant way - by switching to second, third, fourth and fifth gear in acting. Results in more calm actors and balanced, higher speed.And technical it is fare out. As Engineer I have designed enough chips to know they only can do simple things. Switch on some pixels on a screen, or off. All are designed by different people, with different ideas, and doing different stuff. They will never, ever work together! One code does not work on another chip from another company. Apple code does not work on Android Phones etc. And last but not least: Japanese People are working together in large corporate structures. Chinese people do never act as one. They have always in history worked in clans and families. Mao did try to change this to a collective structure, without very much luck. Now in 2013 they are back in the old family structures again: "My family is producing chips for Apple and hates your family, because they producing for Microsoft....Google... whatever" This is the reality, when we are living and working in China today.The suspicious mind of our ancestors the monkeys can still show up in all parts of our earth. Like in this movie... Do not make the world a saver place, do not wake up people, only spread unnecessary fear and takes hope from many people. Producing enemies is easy, producing friends anywhere is a lot harder.

Dragon Day was a compelling film to watch and kept me riveted to the very end. Although clearly a very low-budget movie, it did not suffer from frequent ills of indie films-- the pacing is very rapid, and the story unfolds quickly, and I admire the filmmakers for boldly taking on such a big topic with such limited means.The movie deals with Duke Evans, an ex-NSA engineer, who heads to a remote mountain cabin with his family. While there, the USA is attacked in some fashion through a cyberattack that shuts down all modern systems including electricity and water supplies. The film suggests that the attack comes from China because of our failure to pay our debt.During the film, we see the chaos of this cyberattack as if through a peephole-- only what the main characters see. Although I found myself wishing there were more scenes showing the bigger effects of the disaster, it forced me to stay with the family and experience it as they experienced it.One of my favorite characters in the film was the Mexican illegal immigrant Alonso. His appearance as a critical part of the story was moving and unexpected. The ending managed to steer clear of clichés and was a thought-provoking turn into something different. It had my friend who saw it with me talking about it for quite a while.