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“Burning Myth” is a good name for the production company, because this movie is basically the US far- far-right’s (or at the very least the Jan 6th insurrectionists’) mythological version of “Hercules vs. America under a democratically elected center/center-left government who lets China take over”. I love the whole “everyone except us will decide that Chinese rule is better than not having the internet and having to use cash and other 1980s-era processes” angle, too. I’d like to see the Chinese Communist Party crash and burn just like most people, but this is so over-the-top stupid in its portrayal of the US reaction and response. I mean, seriously, at one point the “hero” (named Duke, I suppose to point out that John Wayne > China) looks at a microchip in a computer and makes it clear that it’s Made in China…seemingly ignoring that fact for the last 30-ish years despite being a computer engineer. I have news for him, if he looks around, most of the two-bit plastic junk he has laying around that’s constantly breaking also has that Made in China label. It’s like the movie suggests this is all a Chinese conspiracy that’s decades old, but even the so-called “heroes” of the story don’t care. Imagine if in Red Dawn, the students who fight back against the Russians had been learning to speak Russian and eating Borscht for their whole lives before the Russians invaded. But they didn’t make any kind of connection or wonder why.

On the other hand, if you think John McClane should have single-handedly attacked the German government for letting Hans Gruber attack our country (by way of Japan, of course), or if you find it amusing when the lunatic fringe accidentally makes fun of itself, you might get a good laugh out of this instead of being (I guess) shocked into some kind of epiphany, which I think is their goal here.

Oh, if you believe the South Park “Chin PoKoMon” episode is real, I think you’re their target audience, so enjoy! ;)