really?
The gravity with which the North Koreans use the word- Wolverines- in the “Red Dawn” remake has to be it’s most ludicrous plot point.
Don’t get me wrong-
I think having Thor boss around a bunch of overly dramatic high school aged children is a stretch. I realize the audacity of a plot that includes North Korea launching a land attack is head-spinning. Let there be no mistake; I’m floored at the thought that a troop of trained Marines is not only looking to join the Wolverines but gladly does so even after finding the guerillas are so recently pubescent. I won’t touch on the ease with which the pimple pinchers seem to move about an invaded city under marshal law. Let’s not mention Grey’s Anatomy’s Denny Duchette who, due to his labored breathing, seems to be still suffering from his failing heart as he attempts to utter fancy military jargon- like “keep your eyes on the deck and we’ll counter from behind” and slang phrases which smack of a PG-13 vulgarity- like “that’s a shit sandwich without the bread”. I can see past the Matrix like ability for the captain of the football team and his sweet-16 girlfriend to leap from building to building without broken limbs or concussions. In no way am I suggesting that Russian counterinsurgency specialists would reasonably join the North Koreans in their ill-advised attack. Why would it seem implausible for these squeaky voiced, half-adults to be able to train themselves to thwart the North Korean military contingency? It is only mildly confusing trying to understand how Peta Malark from The Hunger Games, ( a “y” away from Malarky) decided that his friend’s knife wound was actually a tracking device.
No, all of these points are a soupy mess of unbelievables, which stretches the imagination so far that you may walk away from the movie wondering what your name is and how you managed not to jump in front of the first truck you saw.
Fortunately, there is a plot point that makes me realize that I’m watching fiction. A moment that takes me out of a movie this wrought with impossibilities.
That point is the simple fact that any army, even the North Korean army, that takes seriously a group of people, which have inexpertly named themselves after their high school mascot. That, in my humble opinion is the true MALARKY.