A gay guy, a punk, two blind teens, a Male Protagonist, and a white woman hold up against a hobby militia trying to finish the hate crime they started. Seemingly made on a budget of $20, Siege is held together with nails and duck tape which it turns out is all you need for a tense home invasion thriller about protecting our own.
A clear predecessor to Green Room and Home Alone, much of the movie is watching our group work through the anarchist cookbook to even the odds against bored cops and assorted facists. There's certainly a level of prepper imagination happening here, but it manages to avoid most castle doctrine fantasy with a heavy awareness that almost certainly everyone is going to die. The greaser who provides the supplies and tactics is immediately shown to be full of shit when he scroungs up a single arrow and two bullets (along with an assortment of homemade explosives). These are just scared white kids trying to stay alive through sheer determination, nobody was actually prepared for an assault.
I do wish its leftist politics were more foregrounded, as there's a lot of subtext to play with but most of it gets buried outside of two scenes bookending the plot. I'm not too bothered that its depth only extends as far as playing "Killing In The Name" on repeat, but it could have spoken much more directly to its historical moment by explicitly connecting the execution of queer people by a facist state to larger social forces of the 80s. It's a bit thin around the edges in general, but I'll forgive a lot to watch neonazis eat shit.
Content warnings: LGBTQ+ hate crimes, attempted rape, murder, gore.