I watched Tomorrow When The War Began tonight. It's an Australian movie where 7 teenagers from a small harbour town of New South Wales go on a camping trip in to the outback to a place they know as Hell. During their trip they see a load of military aircraft fly overhead and think nothing of it. On their return to town they discover their homes are empty after some investigating they discover that the country has been invaded by a coalition of local asian forces (I'm guessing Korea/China/Phillipines by the looks of the soldiers, their uniform symbols and hardware). Not willing to give themselves up and yet unable to simply hide they become resistance fighters. After an incident where they see a friendly Australian fighter jet get shot down by 3 enemy planes they decide they can no longer stay at the town. Though the enemy finds them and destroys the building they have been staying in they fail to kill them. On their way out of the city back to the outback location known as Hell, they encounter Chris a stoner from their school who explains a little bit more of what has happened and joins them. Considering there is only one bridge in to the town from the harbour they decide to blow the bridge up and succeed in doing so. The movie ends on a clear cliff hanger several weeks after the destruction of the bridge where the group of teenagers are now facing up to the fact that they are no longer civilians in this war but soldiers behind enemy lines and that they are unwilling and unable to flee or give up. IMDB informs me that the sequel is in direct production.

My opinion on this film is that it is a fairly good movie with a lot of unknowns in which means the acting at times is of course not quite up to the par of the usual Hollywood releases though this is an independent movie not a Hollywood production so that is to be expected. I feel that the movie may have been a little on the short side or that the story may suffer from some pacing problems since the film seems to cover very little ground and yet expects us to pick up a lot more on the basis of a few short video diary clips in a retrospective approach. The action scenes in the film are however visually impressive and well done. The film is however an enjoyable movie. I didn't find watching it to be a chore nor did I end up left without the desire to see the sequel when it is released. If you're looking for an enjoyable, refreshing break from the Hollywood main action titles of late then this could be a movie worth watching.