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Battlefield Earth (2000)
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Reviews Counted: 117
Fresh: 3
Rotten:114
Average Rating: 2.3/10
Consensus: There are few, if any, redeeming qualities for Battlefield Earth. Critics are singing a near-unanimous rotten song.
Runtime: 1 hr 57 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
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...
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 as slaves, stripping the mineral resources from the planet for use by the Psychlo race, or hiding out in remote mountain villages, primitive and cut off from the rest of humanity.
One of the most powerful figures on this new Earth is Psychlo Chief of Security Terl (JOHN TRAVOLTA), a brilliant and monstrous alien who believes he was destined to conquer galaxies.
What he does not know is that one human, Jonnie Goodboy Tyler (BARRY PEPPER), is about to put a kink in his plan to exploit Earth’s human slaves for his own personal gain. A hunter who sets out to make life better for his people, Jonnie is captured and made to work as a slave in one of the Psychlos’ mines. It is here that his journey really begins – a grand adventure that will lead him to discover places and things he never knew existed.
Terl holds every advantage, with the massive strength of invincible Psychlo machinery and the vast Psychlo empire behind him. Jonnie is an insignificant animal to Terl, but he is about to turn the tables, and unleash his unfailing hope in a final showdown for the future of Earth.
Starring: John Travolta, Barry Pepper, Forest Whitaker, Kim Coates
Starring: John Travolta, Barry Pepper, Forest Whitaker, Kim Coates, Sabine Karsenti, Richard Tyson, Kelly Preston, Michael Byrne, Jim Meskimen, Christian Tessier
Director: Roger Christian
Director: Roger Christian
Screenwriter: Corey Mandell
Producer: Jonathan D. Krane, Elie Samaha, John Travolta
Composer: Elia Cmiral
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Reviews for Battlefield Earth
"Battlefield Earth," based on a crappy 1982 sci-fi novel by cult religion dips#*t L. Ron Hubbard, is so inept and pathetic that it should forever end any questions about the validity of Hubbard's manufactured religion of Scientology.
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.
This 117-minute adaptation of an 800-page SF adventure for teenagers seems like a miscalculation on multiple levels.
Watching Battlefield Earth is to a movie-watching experience what having a yeast infection is to having sex.
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.
John Travolta will forever be haunted by this sci-fi travesty based on L. Ron Hubbard's novel.
If this is what we have to look forward to in the year 3000, count me out.
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
This film maintains a surprising consistency of bad acting and directing almost from the first frame to the last.
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.
It's as if Travolta wanted to destroy his career again just to see if he could stage another comeback.
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