My roommate and I have this random fascination with Lu Han ever since watching him and Dilraba on Keep Running, so when she told me that he was in this "end of the world / alien invasion" film on Netflix, of course we had to set aside a night to watch it together. Was is good? Nah. Was it enjoyable? Sure. We will definitely have more inside jokes because of it. I loved how there was a "star" cast with the obvious Luhan but also Qi Shu (the "love interest" of Bruce Willis in the first Transporter movie) who played commander Lin Lan and Godfrey Gao (who of course played the famous Magnus Bane in the 2013 The Mortal Instruments movie) who played Yan Jiannan. And overall, the acting was fine. It was a very patriotic film about people who would die to save their county and even would monologue about their love for Shanghai before they sacrificed themselves. But that is all this movie was; an ode to how much these people had pride in their country.

But there was more to this movie that I disliked more than I liked. At first, we were making jokes about how we thought we were watching a B rated Transformers movie and kept shouting, "where is Michael Bay when you need him?" Also, we kept questioning if the "aliens" were robots themselves or if the aliens created these robots to fight their battles. We kept making One Punch Man references as well as Independence Day references. Asking ourselves if Will Smith would be able to defeat this evil. I think a 6/10 is generous, but it kept us entertained by fueling our jokes.

I thought the romance between Jiang Yang and Lin Lan was super unnecessary especially when they made us think it was one sided the whole movie, until the very end, after the credits, when they decide to show a few clips from before everything happened, showing that there might have been mutual feelings. But that was also the whole movie - they went straight into the action without any background. All I got from it was that there were 4 friends that were on the Grey Eagle team, who really didn't have anything special about them except for working well together. We didn't get any background information about the aliens or how long they've been attacking Earth. Maybe they had no information on them because they were super worried about killing them instead of understanding them. I felt like the writer was very lazy - more focused on the action rather than the story-line. Which made he not really "care" once people that we were introduced to started to die off. The only person that she kind of got to know was Jiang Yang, but it seemed like he had more of an one sided love for Lin Lan that didn't make sense. Or an unhealthy obsession.

Overall, I was confused the whole time, not knowing what the plan and plot was. All I got from this film was that the Shanghai defense team wanted to shoot the alien mothership out of the sky with a huge laser rocket that they had secretly or not secretly created underwater (was not clear whatsoever) which would take all their power (that was coming from whatever underground natural energy source that blue stuff was) which would ultimately make Shanghai cave in on itself. It didn't make sense that the commander of the aliens didn't tell its robot minions to attack the rocket laser as it was the only thing that could defeat them. Also, it didn't make sense that the aliens had such an obsession with Shanghai and didn't move on and then come back after destroying other major cities. They tried to make the ending sentimental and have the people who survived the attack honor the people who had fallen, which yes, was emotional, but after 5 years which took to rebuilt Shanghai, which I thought was still crazy fast, the person/people that survived the final battle thought of a single person instead of honoring the people that they actually fought alongside. The people that ultimately sacrificed themselves to give the survivors a fraction more of a percent of defeating the aliens. Also, one last thought. I never understood the whole, last resort, self destruct button which would reboot the whole system. Like, did no one think that major they could have had a better last resort option before this that would kill less people?? Just saying. Maybe another button that could turn on the backup generators if something crazy would happen? It seemed like a waste to sacrifice so many people in order to turn on a back up generator and also kill a single robot. I don't understand why some people were carrying around a gun that could kill the robot soldier in one blow, while other people were given handguns like that was going to protect them again anything.