Battlefield Earth (2000)
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Reviews Counted: 114 Fresh: 3 Rotten:111 Average Rating: 2.3/10
Consensus: There are few, if any, redeeming qualities for Battlefield Earth. Critics are singing a near-unanimous rotten song. more
Runtime: 1 hr 57 mins
Synopsis:
In the year 3000, there are no countries, no cities... Earth is a wasteland. And man is an endangered species.
A millennium ago, vicious Psychlo aliens swept down from the skies and wiped out Earth’s entire defense force in nine minutes. Now, the handfuls of surviving humans are either used... [More]
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Starring: John Travolta, Barry Pepper, Forest Whitaker, Kim Coates, Sabine Karsenti
Director: Roger Christian
Screenwriter: Corey Mandell
Producer: Jonathan D. Krane, Elie Samaha, John Travolta
Composer: Elia Cmiral
Screenwriter: Corey Mandell
Producer: Jonathan D. Krane, Elie Samaha, John Travolta
Composer: Elia Cmiral
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Reviews
A folly so supreme that it occasionally inspires awe, in the sense that so many people spent so much time and money on it without ever realizing how awful it is.
07/23/07 05:24 PM
This 117-minute adaptation of an 800-page SF adventure for teenagers seems like a miscalculation on multiple levels.
01/06/07 12:02 PM
Top Critic Watching Battlefield Earth is to a movie-watching experience what having a yeast infection is to having sex.
04/06/06 07:13 AM
Travolta, it seems, had wanted to star in a film of Battlefield Earth since first reading the novel in 1982. Only the all-seeing L Ron knows why.
01/26/06 03:16 AM
John Travolta will forever be haunted by this sci-fi travesty based on L. Ron Hubbard's novel.
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10/25/04 07:38 PM
Scientologist or not, this is as inane as summer blockbusters get.
05/22/03 05:10 PM
If this is what we have to look forward to in the year 3000, count me out.
05/14/03 05:11 PM
The sets are laughably cheap, and the aliens look like geeks from a Star Trek convention who couldn't afford to buy the "good" Klingon costumes
03/20/03 01:55 AM
This film maintains a surprising consistency of bad acting and directing almost from the first frame to the last.
02/08/03 08:20 AM
It doesn't help that the film's premise, which sees stoneage cavemen turn into ace fighter pilots with only a week's training, is as naive as that of the 1939 serial Buck Rogers.
12/02/02 08:20 AM
It's as if Travolta wanted to destroy his career again just to see if he could stage another comeback.
06/18/02 05:01 PM
finds (Travolta) wobbling around in the highest platform shoes since Elton John and sporting bizarre dreadlocks... the oddest vanity production imaginable, one in which the main attraction is nearly impossible to recognize.
06/10/02 07:29 PM
Utterly inane and innocuous in the most harmless, uninteresting way -- the fruit of an overrated star’s overblown ego, recklessly indulged by studio excess.
06/05/02 08:14 AM
O diretor Roger Christian acredita que 'ter estilo' é simplesmente inclinar sua câmera o tempo todo.
05/31/02 11:38 AM
No, it doesn’t rise to the appalling heights of awfulness of such legendary mega-bombs as Ishtar or Burn Hollywood Burn. It hasn’t the wit.
05/08/02 12:19 PM
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