Battle: Los Angeles Reviews
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.
December 6, 2011
Terminally stupid.
March 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.
March 20, 2011
One doesn't approach a movie like this expecting Shakespearean drama. Unlike some films with loftier ambitions, Battle Los Angeles pretty much delivers what it promises:
March 20, 2011
The film constantly blows thick smoke up our a---s and calls it charity.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
March 18, 2011
The special effects are mediocre and the story is strewn with the type of plot inconsistencies and lazy dialogue all-too-typical of today's post-content blockbusters.
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| Original Score: 2/5
March 17, 2011
Watching this nonsense after seeing tragic television images of the destruction of Japan somehow made Battle: Los Angeles appear even more meretricious.
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| Original Score: 1/5
March 17, 2011
It is a well executed one-violent-trick pony, designed for the 12 year old boy the movie studios hope is still playing with toy soldier figurines inside us all.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
March 16, 2011
Like the aliens themselves, the cliches were coming too fast. Unlike the aliens, they are indestructible.
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| Original Score: 1/5
March 14, 2011
After a brief introduction to the cliched characters, the battle of the title is a violent, over-amplified affair...
March 14, 2011
Really need to watch District 9 again. Immediately.
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| Original Score: 2/5
March 13, 2011
Feels less like a movie than the action scenes clipped out of one.
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| Original Score: 2/5
March 12, 2011
Excitement? Not so much.
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| Original Score: 2/4
March 11, 2011
With his hawklike profile and square jaw, the hyperstalwart Eckhart looks like a comic-book hero and acts like one, too. He's so stalwart he creaks.
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| Original Score: C+
March 11, 2011
Gosh darn it all if Battle: Los Angeles is hugely entertaining all on its own right thoughts about plagiarism or no.
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| Original Score: 3/4
March 11, 2011
Battle Los Angeles is so derivative of superior films that you'll spend half the running time merely making a list of movies that you'd rather be watching.
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| Original Score: 1.0/5.0
March 11, 2011
This film feels so much like a videogame your hands keep reaching for controllers -- shoot the aliens, shoot the aliens, shoot the aliens.
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| Original Score: C
March 11, 2011
Don't mean to boast, but I can suspend my disbelief as willingly as any credulous moviegoer. Yet not even an industrial crane would have helped here. Nope, Battle: Los Angeles completely defeated me.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
March 11, 2011
It's just running, shooting, dodging, killing, not badly done but pretty numbing over two hours.
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| Original Score: 2/5
March 11, 2011
Pretty much cardboard, down to the heroic patriotic speeches, and less distinctive even than last year's scarcely stellar Skyline, which trashed the same city.
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| Original Score: 2/5