Simply Perfect

A Masterpiece!

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

I really wanted to like this movie because I'm sympathetic to some of it's basic ideas such as prepping, fiscal conservatism, and national sovereignty. Unfortunately, "Dragon Day" is a poorly constructed mish-mash of themes that just don't fit together. I regret the $4 I spent to rent it from Amazon and I have no interest in seeing any further efforts from writer/director, Jeffrey Travis.DD starts with America being completely crippled by a Chinese cyber-attack that destroys every electronic device that employs Made In China microchips. As a result of the Road Warrior-type chaos that follows, the main characters spend much of the movie slowly dying from lack of food and water as well as being menaced by various thugs. At the same time, the script has China take over the country in a coup and enforce their control using some kind of ultra high-tech wristbands, which can't be removed and instantly kill the wearer if they break even the most trivial rule. Supposedly, the Chinese do all of this to get back the trillions of dollars we (stupidly) borrowed from them and they (stupidly) loaned to us. How destroying the economy and infrastructure of the US would enable Beijing to get it's money back is not explained. There is no evidence in the script that Travis ever considered the absurdity of this premise.Although either of these themes could be interesting if done well, they simply do not belong in the same movie. There's a reason Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic fiction are two different genres. Not that it's impossible to blend them (see "12 Monkeys") but doing so takes far better writing and directing than this sad effort has to offer.There is yet another weird incongruity in this movie: Despite being openly hostile to Beijing because of it's potential threat to US sovereignty, DD is very sympathetic to Mexico. All of the Mexican characters are portrayed as virtually Christ-like. The main one is essentially a mestizo version of the "Magic Negro" trope found in so many Hollywood movies. This nonsense is a bizarre contradiction to the movie's theme of American nationalism. I have never met a Patriot who was happy about Mexico's ongoing, slow-motion occupation of the West Coast and the Southwest. Of course, there are any number of white liberals who love the idea (because Mexican culture is sooo supportive of feminism, gay rights, and transexuality, lol?) but these are the same self-hating, logic-impaired basket cases who always side against Trad-Cons, no matter what the issue. Does Travis actually think these people have the slightest sympathy for prepping, fiscal conservatism, or national sovereignty? If so, he should read all the reviews and posts here accusing him of "racism" because he doesn't support preemptive surrender to China.

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.

After seeing some bad reviews I was expecting a boring movie, but it was totally the opposite. If you are not the type of person that need to see the million dollar effects and the top paid actors to enjoy a movie, you will not regret watching this one. The possible fact of the USA not able to paid their debt and the massive cyber-attack that follows make a very interesting idea. It has a good plot, nice filming and it's great how they manage to make a movie on this complicate subject with a really low budget ($200.000). I would like to see the same movie, same idea, same director, same writer but with a Hollywood budget!

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.