racist as hell?

They COULD have made it more plausible by
1. not naming it Dragon day, I don't think it's as much of a revered chinese symbol as the writer/s believe it to be
2. getting rid of the silly soviet graphic design with the chinese character for 'middle', which is like a prefix, I mean they couldn't copy and paste second character 'Kingdom'? It doesn't really make sense. For a movie about invasion by another country, they could have done more research on the other country's actual culture, rather than only the cyber-hacking part.

It looks like a cross between '28 Days Later' and 'Signs'. The premise is a bit shaky, even if they're basing it on current events, the economic plausibility seems ridiculous, like some other poster said. Jeffrey Travis conflates Argentina's economic debt problems with America's. And the stuff that has to happen for microchips to bring down every infrastructure, requires a lot of suspension of disbelief, especially for hardware and software engineers.

We live in a free society so I think everyone should get to make whatever movie they want, but if you're going to make a compelling sci-fi flick, it would behoove the producers to at least do some research on how computers work, and maybe some research on the aggressor state, other than news stories combined with the take-out menu for cultural reference.

I don't think racism is the movie's intent, I mean everyone knows PRC's cyber army is hacking or attempting to hack into the US all the time, you don't have to be a racist to admit that much, I'm pretty sure they empathize w/ the actual people/support their freedom from oppression and have nothing against them in general. One dictatorship or cyber army does not represent an entire "race", the producers aren't that stupid. But maybe some viewers might be. You have to separate the "army" from the actual "nationality" and "ethnicity". It's too bad they don't show chinese americans being victims along with the main characters (i didn't see any in the cast list).

To be fair, I wouldn't call the plot "racist". When the re-make of red dawn came out I don't remember anyone saying racist, because many of us have a view that north korea is well....crazy.

Having said that, I would say (having not seen the film) that it is too early to cry racism. The premise is derived around the economy and not us picking a fight with China because they're chinese.

On the flip side, I think the movie is certainly put together to draw viewers who are racist.

Eh, no, can't be fixed, problem is that its implausible. The same way red dawns remake became implausible the moment they made it about north korea. China isn't a military threat on the level of the soviet union. Even the debt doesn't really add up once you realize what a small fraction it is.