John Marsden wrote seven books in the Tomorrow When The War Began Series, each following the main character Ellie, through her and her friends guerrilla warfare against an invader army in attempts to stem the war and save the ones they love.
Basically the story goes, Ellie and her best friend Corrie plan a camping trip into ‘Hell’ over the Australia day weekend with 5 of their friends. While further up the river then they’d ever been before war breaks out. They return home to find their families gone, dogs dead and the town being held in a prison camp at the showground. It follows Ellie and the rest of the group coming to grips with what has happened, hiding from the enemy and basically staying alive- which means kill or be killed.
According to James (and most of the reviews I’ve read) it’s a faithful adaption. Full of action, drama and great Aussie scenery. I personally have been putting off reading the books unsure if it’s something I could get into, but if the movies anything to go by it’ll be intense and well worth it!
All in all the movie is well worth a watch, for both people who have and haven’t read the books. Stuart Beattie best known for his work as a screenwriter (he collaborated on the Pirates of the Caribbean movies and wrote Collateral) makes his directorial debut with this movie and in my opinion does an excellent job. It’s action packed and filled with some drama. The acting within the film for me was patchy in parts due to particular characters, I found Robyn played by Ashleigh Cummings to be very wooden in most scenes, but alternatively Caitlyn Stasey as Ellie and Deniz Akdeniz as Homer were excellent, as was most of the rest of the cast.
I give it 4 and ½ stars ^_^
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