Battle: Los Angeles Reviews
September 2, 2020
Every frame of Battle: Los Angeles feels wasted.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4.0
July 13, 2020
Over the years movies have taught many important lessons, chief among these are don't retire, never retire, nothing good will come of it.
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| Original Score: C
June 7, 2019
Yet another run-of-the-mill alien invasion movie with nothing original to say.
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| Original Score: 2/4
October 24, 2017
I didn't think it was possible to make SFX sequences more baffling and headache inducing than Transformers 2, but Battle: LA found a way.
June 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.
June 22, 2013
Misses every mark it's aiming at, and then misses countless more.
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| Original Score: D
June 2, 2013
Battle: Los Angeles misses every mark it aims for. Aside from the well done special effects nothing in this movie is worth recommending.
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| Original Score: 3/10
January 23, 2013
It's not new, it's not novel and it's not art. But as a popcorn movie a couple of months out of summer season, it'll have to do.
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| Original Score: 2/4
September 21, 2012
Jonathan Liebesman's "Battle: Los Angeles" is one of those rare films that fails on just about every level a film can fail on.
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| Original Score: 1/4
December 6, 2011
Terminally stupid.
September 1, 2011
Not as bad as the other recent invasion movie Skyline, but still nothing to be excited about.
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| Original Score: 2/5
August 15, 2011
For an alien invasion film, this one is a solid effort, though there's a bit too much violence and not enough introspection.
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| Original Score: 2/4
June 16, 2011
...Battle Los Angeles fizzles out long before it reaches its tedious, anticlimactic finish.
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| Original Score: 2/4
June 14, 2011
... this humorless film as unimaginative -- and as exhausting -- as you can get.
May 15, 2011
a kind of cross between what I imagine the first person shooter video game experience to be and an episode of the HBO series Generation Kill
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| Original Score: 83/100
May 4, 2011
For all the blazing guns and s*** blowing up, it's only sporadically thrilling.
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| Original Score: C-
April 27, 2011
...looks good but the story lacks soul.
April 13, 2011
full review at Movies for the Masses
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
April 4, 2011
One part War of the Worlds, one part generic stoic army guy movie from 1957 set during WWII, one part Independence Day, one part goofy dialogue.
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| Original Score: 2/5
March 25, 2011
Only serviceable as a war movie and completely ridiculous as a science-fiction yarn, 'Battle: Los Angeles' is an average actioner that's barely one level above the Syfy Channel's 'Battle of Los Angeles.'
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| Original Score: 2/4