Battle: Los Angeles

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Battle: Los Angeles

PG-13

2011

1h 56m

Sci-Fi

Action

Adventure

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For many years, humans have reported various UFO sightings around the world, fueling speculation about the existence of life on other worlds. In 2011, mankind learns the truth the hard way when alien invaders attack. One by one, the world's great cities fall, leaving Los Angeles as the battleground for humanity's last stand. It's up to a Marine staff sergeant (Aaron Eckhart) and his platoon to draw a line in the sand against a powerful enemy unlike any previously encountered.

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Critics Consensus

Overlong and overly burdened with war movie clichés, Battle: Los Angeles will entertain only the most ardent action junkies.

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Scott Foundas

Film Comment Magazine

06/28/2013

Case in point: Battle: Los Angeles, an alien-invasion disaster piece so loud, ham-fisted and joyless-so aggressively lousy-that its only real usefulness is to make one better appreciate the deft touch of a Roland Emmerich.

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Michael Wilmington

Chicago Reader

12/06/2011

Terminally stupid.

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Anthony Lane

The New Yorker

03/21/2011

If the talk had been surgically removed, leaving only the sights and sounds of combat, this could have been a striking, semiabstract display of aggressive energy; as it is, any viewer over twelve will go for the laughs.

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Don Shanahan

Every Movie Has a Lesson

02/16/2024

3/5

Our plot and attention is not split and spread to several places or groups of people around the country and world. We stick with one group the whole way through and that's the movie's strength.

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

07/31/2023

1/4

After a shotgun wedding between Black Hawk Down and Independence Day, this movie was the unwanted offspring—an unintelligible mixture of war movies and science-fiction that insults the credibility of both genres.

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Keith Garlington

Keith & the Movies

08/19/2022

2.5/5

It’s aim was to be a pre-summer popcorn action movie and it hits it’s mark.

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Carl S

@MayhemSPQR 6d

I don't know why it gets so much hate. I enjoyed the movie when I saw it in the theater and I have watched it a dozen times since. Liking or disliking a movie is purely subjective, but not sure why people feel the need to be so negative online when they don't like something. In my opinion the internet is full of trolls who spread hatred for movies and TV shows just for fun. It's just my personal process but I usually post positive reviews and keep my negative opinions to myself. I'm generalizing by the way, there are always going to be exceptions.

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Gianclaudio O

@Johnny-Brazil Jan 29

It's not an alien-invasion movie. It's a war movie where the enemy is an alien military force. It's innovative, intense and fun. Most people have hard time understanding it. It can be frustrating if you expect it as an alien-invasion movie. But if uou watch this as it is: a war movie, it will be nice. Good characters, good story-line. It worth your time. Definitively.

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Pedro Henrique C

@Pedro2005 Jan 23

Battle: Los Angeles (2011) Honestly, this movie is pretty bad... It has nothing important or innovative about it; it's just a generic alien invasion movie that we've already seen many times. It's a mess that the script can't fix.

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Greg T

@RT24884357 Nov 24

This was a fun watch as I really enjoy combat movies and video games. The story flows nicely, the action is non-stop and the combat felt pretty realistic for a sci-fi / action movie.

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Zardos S

@RT56205366 Nov 21

About as bad as it gets

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Steven P

@RT06348510 Oct 22

No clue what movie the other reviewers saw. This is an very good movie. A boots on the ground war film with aliens.

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Jonathan Liebesman

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Aaron Eckhart

Ssgt. Michael Nantz

Michelle Rodriguez

Tsgt. Elena Santos

Ramón Rodríguez

2nd Lt. William Martinez

Bridget Moynahan

Michele

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Battle: Los Angeles: Official Clip - I'm Not Leaving You!

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Battle: Los Angeles: Official Clip - Swimming Pool Ambush

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Battle: Los Angeles: Official Clip - Stalked in the Sewers

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Battle: Los Angeles: Official Clip - Direct Hit!

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Battle: Los Angeles: Official Clip - Defeating the Aliens

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Battle: Los Angeles: Official Clip - Destroying the Alien Drone

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Battle: Los Angeles: Official Clip - The Siege Continues

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Battle: Los Angeles: Official Clip - Go Right Through 'Em

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Synopsis

For many years, humans have reported various UFO sightings around the world, fueling speculation about the existence of life on other worlds. In 2011, mankind learns the truth the hard way when alien invaders attack. One by one, the world's great cities fall, leaving Los Angeles as the battleground for humanity's last stand. It's up to a Marine staff sergeant (Aaron Eckhart) and his platoon to draw a line in the sand against a powerful enemy unlike any previously encountered.

Director: Jonathan Liebesman
Producer: Neal H. Moritz, Ori Marmur
Screenwriter: Christopher Bertolini
Distributor: Sony Pictures Entertainment
Production Co: Original Film, Relativity Media, Columbia Pictures
Rating: PG-13 (Sustained/Intense Seq. of War|Language|Violence and Destruction)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 11, 2011, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 5, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA): $83.6M
Runtime: 1h 56m
Sound Mix: SDDS, Dolby Digital, DTS

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