![]() The film is so busy moving forward it rarely has time to fill in the back story. If you haven’t seen the first Occupation, the basic set-up is pretty obvious: aliens have invaded and turned Sydney into a hellhole, but a bunch of brave Aussies are fighting back. ![]() ‘Humans good, aliens bad’ seems like a decent guide to start with, but it doesn’t take long for things to get a little more complicated. If you want to call this dumb, you’re not wrong – but you’re also missing the point. It’s also not short of alien invaders, RAAF fighter jets, automatic gunfire, more explosions, and alien horses that just can’t help themselves when it comes to eating bad guys. And if there’s one thing Australian writer / director’s Luke Sparke’s Occupation: Rainfall isn’t short of, it’s explosions. Explosions rarely tax the viewer’s intellect they’re also rarely boring to watch. ![]() The words ‘dumb’ and ‘blockbuster’ go together so naturally it’s not even an insult. ![]()
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