I know I might take some flak for being overly PC but I'm not too thrilled about a flick that, in effect, demonizes an entire ethnic group. There are loads of Chinese-Americans here in the States and there is still a lot of latent and sometimes overt racism here as well. I still have to teach my high school sophomores that Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other Asian people are not "all the same". Do we really need a movie that makes the Chinese nation the bad guys? I know there are a lot of movies with Chinese gangsters and the like but the PRC Army invading the U.S.? That's a bit different and, IMHO, not very cool.
With the Soviets, it wasn't an ethnic group taking the fall, it was an ideology.
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