Battlefield Earth

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Battlefield Earth

PG-13

2000

1h 57m

Sci-Fi

Adventure

Action

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In the year 3000, there are no countries, no cities... Earth is a wasteland. And man is an endangered species. As the leader of the evil Psychlos, Terl and his race have taken over the world's natural resources and disregarded everyone and everything else. It's up to Jonnie "Goodboy" Tyler, a brave human, to battle the Psychlos and restore normalcy to the world.

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Critics Consensus

Ugly, campy, and poorly acted, Battlefield Earth is a stunningly misguided, aggressively bad sci-fi folly.

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Alexander Walker

London Evening Standard

06/03/2015

Appalling.

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Jeff Strickler

Minneapolis Star Tribune

04/30/2014

Logic is in short supply. Burned-out cities have electricity, for example. My favorite: A hangar full of jets, buried under 1,000 years of dust, not only fire up instantly but still have full tanks of gas.

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Jay Boyar

Orlando Sentinel

04/30/2014

Not awful, but pretty bad. A third-string Planet of the Apes meets Star Trek, Battlefield Earth is a largely uninspiring sci-fi adventure with a Swiss-cheese plot.

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Tony Black

Cultural Conversation

02/15/2021

1/5

It remains, genuinely, the worst film produced this century, as of 2020, and it is hard to imagine anything taking its crown any time soon.

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Brian Gill

Mad About Movies Podcast

09/02/2020

F

Lives up to the hype. This is the worst movie ever made.

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Nick Rogers

Midwest Film Journal

06/24/2020

1/5

Nothing so entertaining, albeit in none of the right ways, should scrape WOAT status. It's not even one of the 10 worst films from 2000, a distressingly dunderheaded year for movies in general after one of the best ever.

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Colby G

@RT22705501 Jun 6

I think this movie was watchable and had a good concept. I found it funny and extremely campy. For that and the interesting concept it gets three and half stars. Film reminds me of a grindhouse flick - you kind of just go with it and enjoy it. Now for the bad..... where to start.... Well the CGI was atrocious, the acting was uninspired, the plot holes are a mile wide. LMAO... Camera "work" was just bad. How did they get the planes fueled up? How did they train so many pilots in 7 days? How did everyone get weapons training so fast? Yeah Idk lol. But they did so WOO!! Why was there so little Psychlo world building? It still get 3.5 stars for being memorable and humorously bad.

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Konrad D

@dobbie May 31

I don't care what anyone says. I enjoyed this one. It's so bad, it's good! A shame, really, because the story was quite good. Perhaps it was just ahead of it's time and the CGI just didn't pull it off well. It's mainly a scale issue, I'm guessing.

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Bill K

@BDKowalski May 31

Thinking the terrible reviews might have an anti-scifi bias, I sat down to watch this. Nope, it’s just a horrendously bad movie, derived from an equally bad book written by the master of bad scifi, L. Ron Hubbard. When I was in grade school I read almost all the scifi books in our local library. I’d take them home five at a time and bring them back in a couple days or so to reload. When I hit the L. Ron Hubbard novels, I thought they were pulpy, ridiculous schlock. That was more than 60 years ago. Even as a little kid I knew bad writing when I saw it. Now we can add this movie to the list.

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MaybeSomeday833 T

@RT77129126 May 11

Some movies are just "watch them for the LOL's". Have fun with it, that sort of thing. If the campy-ness and silliness make you smile, even on the inside, it's a success. I enjoyed this movie a lot!

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Ari V

@RT59419633 Apr 8

Yep, it's pretty much just that bad. From Barry Pepper's 2 expressions outward. 1.25

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Charlie M

@Charlie285 Mar 9

One of the worst cinematic travesties in history.

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Synopsis

In the year 3000, there are no countries, no cities... Earth is a wasteland. And man is an endangered species. As the leader of the evil Psychlos, Terl and his race have taken over the world's natural resources and disregarded everyone and everything else. It's up to Jonnie "Goodboy" Tyler, a brave human, to battle the Psychlos and restore normalcy to the world.

Director: Roger Christian
Producer: Jonathan D. Krane, Elie Samaha, John Travolta
Screenwriter: L. Ron Hubbard, Corey Mandell, J.D. Shapiro
Distributor: Warner Bros.
Production Co: Battlefield Productions LLC, JTP Films, Morgan Creek Productions, Franchise Pictures
Rating: PG-13 (Sci-Fi Violence)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Adventure, Action
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 12, 2000, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): May 2, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $21.5M
Runtime: 1h 57m
Sound Mix: SDDS, Dolby Digital, DTS, Surround, Dolby SR
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)