I actually was enjoying the movie, until I realized that it was a mere regurgitation of the old Yellow Peril xenophobia tripe that rears its ugly head in American cinema from time to time. As an American of Asian descent, I certainly felt as though the finger was being pointed at me for America's economic woes. What did I do?
Really? The wicked Chinese want to take over America? Can't you do better than that? I'm glad I did not go to the theater to watch this - I certainly would have left the theater, if only to ensure my safety in a roomful of folks who had just watched a movie that plays up to every villainous, yellow peril, xenophobic stereotype in the book. The one clever thing about the movie was that it achieved this without actually resorting to using an arch-villain Asian character - now that was unusual. Maybe this shows up in the sequel.
Really? The wicked Chinese want to take over America? Can't you do better than that? I'm glad I did not go to the theater to watch this - I certainly would have left the theater, if only to ensure my safety in a roomful of folks who had just watched a movie that plays up to every villainous, yellow peril, xenophobic stereotype in the book. The one clever thing about the movie was that it achieved this without actually resorting to using an arch-villain Asian character - now that was unusual. Maybe this shows up in the sequel.