This movie could not be stupider.
Battlefield Earth (2000)
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Reviews Counted:121
Fresh:3
Rotten:118
Average Rating:2.3/10
Consensus: Ugly, campy, and poorly acted, Battlefield Earth is a stunningly misguided, aggressively bad sci-fi folly.
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
Okay folks, we've got a winner for worst film of the year, and the year isn't even half over yet.
The leader bares a resemblance to Andy Rooney of 60 Minutes, eyebrows and all. It would have been apropos for him to look into the camera and say, 'Don’t you just hate it when you waste money on really stupid movies with cheesy special effects?'
The words 'so bad it's good' strain to make themselves heard through the film's coarse bluster and grimy din.
Battlefield Earth is a shrill, hollow and unintelligible movie with no redeeming value whatsoever.
The movie is so outrageously, spectacularly, unbelievably bad that we stare at it with some sort of appalled curiosity. It fails on so many levels that it's fascinating, although not so much that I'd sit through it again.
Remarkable mainly for rendering the prospect of human extinction inconsequential.
Now that it's finally on the screen, we discover that the science-fiction epic Travolta considered a Holy Grail is silly junk.
Looking back on this film, I can't find anything nice to say about it.
Didn't anyone stand up at a production meeting to say that the script is idiotic? That the movie steals unashamedly from countless other sci-fi movies?
Battlefield Earth begins as retro pulp and ends up, figuratively speaking, as tons of wet cardboard.
Despite starting off like a bad Star Trek episode, this film eventually graduates to a higher level.
Sitting through the summer's first monolithic monstrosity, Battlefield Earth, was one of the most painfully excruciating experiences of my life.
At about the one hour mark, a portion of the audience split the scene and I don't blame them. They were fed-up with being taken for complete and utter morons.
to make matters worse, Earth only covers half of Hubbard’s 1,000-plus page novel. The filmmakers plan on releasing a sequel in two years.
If you are the type of person who likes to watch traffic accidents, then this is for you.
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