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Frontier (2023)
Mediocre
This series is not really about the wild frontier or the birth of a nation, but rather all the evil things white men did to natives and slaves. You learn very little about history and even the civil war is condensed to a 5 minute clip where we are mostly reminded about the massacre of a couple hundred indians. Really? Over 600.000 casualties during the war and this incident that wasn't even a footnote in the bigger picture gets the limelight? It seems that nothing positive happened after the independence struggle. It was all murder and mayhem. Really sad viewing really, a white guilt trip at most.
Tomorrow, When the War Began (2010)
"Red Dawn in the land down under, but not as fun"
"Australia is the flattest continent, with the oldest and least fertile soils. Desert or semi-arid land commonly known as the outback makes up by far the largest portion of land." So the question is, why on earth would anyone want to invade it?! A group of teenagers start their own guerrilla war against the invaders and decide to blow up a bridge. A bridge that that has no strategic value as a group of engineers would build a pontoon bridge or use a bridge-layer to get the job done in the matter of hours.
The enemy is also a bunch of dimwits who don't raise an alarm when they notice a breach in their defenses. They don't arrive to investigate when some of them get blown to bits at some yard even though there are more soldiers in that area etc. They just walk around looking clueless and never hit anything or anyone, just like the Stormtroopers in Star Wars. At least in Red Dawn most of the teenagers got killed because they were fighting against a trained military force. In this film they just fool around and somehow magically survive the halfhearted efforts of the enemy.
All in all, the landscapes are beautiful and cinematography is nice. The plot is just terrible nonsense. It's like if some European country decided to invade Greenland to steal all the igloos!