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"Battle: Los Angeles" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 05/08/2012
A squad of US Marines are sent into war-torn Los Angeles to rescue a group of stranded civilians during an alien invasion. The comparisons to Independence Day are obvious, but Battle: Los Angeles takes itself far more seriously than Roland Emmerich's fun-filled cheese fest. In fact Johnathan Liebesman has clearly seen Black Hawk Down one too many times and I suspect that writer Christopher Bertolini gets slightly tumescent every time he sees an army recruitment poster. It's basically just a generic war film with added aliens but the script makes the usual mistake of concentrating on action rather than story, resulting in a bunch of characters that are introduced only through ten minutes of soap opera at the beginning and never interact again apart from bellowing military jargon at each …
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1/4
Battle: Los Angeles review
Daniel Corleone - wrote on 12/12/2011
S.Sgt. Michael Nantz (Aaron Eckhart), 2ndLt. William Martinez (Ramón Rodríguez), TSgt. Elena Santos (Michelle Rodriguez), Cpl. Harris, Lockett, Lt. Martinez and the rest check the reason for the meteor fall. The reactions of the soldiers upon seeing the aliens on TV seemed rehearsed score too dramatic and the lack of origin for the meteors that feel was relevant. It’s peculiar how watching a video makes them discover which ship controls the rest. Had dramatic scenes with whispers, a lot of shooting, explosions, cursing, cheesy dialogue, repetitive score and moving around with a shaky camera which makes you cringe and think how boring this film was. It looks like a big budget film, if only they got better writers instead of numerous artists who just kept on dying and effects …
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3/4
Bullets and Shrapnel
Nick - wrote on 05/05/2011
I was really excited for great things from this movie. I wasn't expecting a re-make type movie of Independence Day, but a more realistic movie with lots of sci-fi and great story with on-the-edge of your seat action. Battle Los Angeles succeeded on only a few of those fronts. The movie was quite realistic and believable. The kind of reaction and response the U.S. had is pretty much exactly how it would really go down. I was happy that no secret weapons that don't exist popped out of the blue from a hidden U.S. research facility. It was just troops and military defense against the enemy. What did catch me a little surprised was that the movie was much more action, and not much sci-fi. The sci-fi was basically your alien ship graphics, a few aliens and their weapons, but not any …
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2.5/4
Black Spaceship Down
Chris Kavan - wrote on 04/04/2011
I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised by this movie. I was expecting the sci-fi action with plenty of shooting and explosions going on - but I have to say that aside from the action, Battle: Los Angeles does something unexpected - it actually develops its characters.
Not every character gets a fare shake - with a platoon of Marines, you have your basic stock characters (the rookie, the comedian, the family man and so on and so forth) but surprisingly, the main character, the just-about-to-retire staff sergeant burdened with guilt over a mission gone wrong, as played by Aaron Eckhart, is actually quite well developed for a movie that's about an alien invasion. Of course he gets put in the same platoon with the man whose brother got killed on said mission that went wrong, so …
Rating of
3.5/4
Battle: Los Angeles Review
Myviewing - wrote on 03/13/2011
Sweet, fun as coolness movie I really enjoyed after having seen an aggressively mediocre movie and an overall just plain good movie about a month ago. I know some people might be a bit put off by it considering it was done by the same guy who did The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning and it might remind them of Skyline somewhat given the premise, but this is way better than either believe me. The story is done before, but it’s like a spiritual successor to Independence Day of sorts and that’s pretty much what I was hoping for when I went in. The acting was pretty good, and the music was really cool and added a lot of intensity to the battle and drama scenes and they actually worked pretty well together. If I had any complaints I think it would be that the alien designs …
