Now, as far as movies go, I have seen much worse. The overall plot of the movie, while very flawed, had it's points that impressed me. AS a fan of the earlier movie from 1984, I had been hoping that this movie would be the modern telling of a bunch of high school kids defending their home. The movie succeeded in being exactly what I had hoped. That being said.....

This movie completely lacked any fragment of reality, like the earlier 1984 movie had done. In today's day and age it makes absolutely zero sense that high school kids, with very minimal training, are transformed from bumbling kids into full fledged pseudo-Marines capable of killing fully trained North Korean soldiers. Now whatever it's a movie and things in movies don't always make sense but to me it kinda got outta hand.

When I watch a movie, I put a lot of importance in the actors performances and how invested in I am in their character. In my opinion, the worst part of the entire movie was the acting. Not all of the performances were flawed however. Josh Hutcherson (Robert) did a fantastic job of being a scared little boy turned badass and was extremely believable. Chris Hemsworth (Jed) in all of his "Thor" glory, was quite believable as well. He is a Marine and Marines fight in war and are more used to it than others, so naturally the Marine would be the leader. A few other characters were not overly believable, but Josh Peck (Matt) was by far the worst. His character is so 1-dimensional and Josh does not bring anything to the dialogue. He looks completely out of it for half of the movie and the other half he's either screaming, or is way too close in people's personal space at the worst of times. I couldn't believe they actually let that guy on screen. I most likely would have given this movie a 6 had he not been in it. Chris is almost able to cancel him out, but it didn't work. I dreaded every time Matt was on the screen. And to be honest, the rest of the cast's dislike for his performances came out on screen. It looked to me like Chris wanted to get through scenes with him as quickly as humanly possible, Isabel Lucas (Erica) seemed to shy away from him in any kind of intimate moment and everyone else seemed to nearly be scowling at him in disgust when he would deliver his lines.

Overall wasn't the worst movie in the world, but definitely was not the best by any means. I would say it was a definite renter.

In short, Josh Peck. Close. Your. Mouth.