Before watching this disaster, I honestly had very little idea what Cannon Films was. Well, now I do, and I wish I had remained blissfully ignorant.
Apparently, Cannon Films spent years flooding the market with an endless stream of cheap, poorly made, utterly ridiculous movies. After watching Invasion U.S.A., I can certainly understand why the studio became synonymous with questionable cinematic quality. This is less a movie and more an endurance test for anyone unfortunate enough to sit through it.
Everything about this production screams cheap exploitation filmmaking: the ridiculous premise, the laughable dialogue, the wooden performances and action sequences that seem to have been assembled with very little concern for anything resembling quality filmmaking. It's the sort of movie that makes you question how it ever got made, let alone distributed.
And then there is the studio itself. Learning more about Cannon's history, including the political affiliations of its two owners, Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, only reinforced my lack of interest in supporting the company. Given their Zionist affiliations, I have absolutely no desire to seek out or purchase any more releases of films produced by Cannon Films. Not that it probably matters much nowadays, but at least I know which studio to avoid.
One viewing was more than enough. Consider this my first and last encounter with Cannon Films. What an absolutely miserable introduction.
But release and packaging are wonderful…