Review of Battle: Los Angeles (2011) by Kyl63 — 20 Mar 2011

Look people, I've read some of the reviews, and I think people miss the point of movies anymore. This movie was to tell a story of Marines, Soldiers, Corpsman, and Airman fighting an alien invasion. This movie was designed to be an action film, operative word ACTION. Was the story some amazing Shakespeare masterpiece? Not at all, but it's not supposed to be. The story carries the movie well enough, with logical story progression, and a very comforting lack of pointless scenes. You learn a little bit about some of the characters, their lives, who they are, and then BOOM - it hits the fan. Fairly, you only ever feel truly attached to one character, and there are some very emotional scenes in the movie, especially if you served in the military. There are some weak spots in the story, and even a few plot points directly ripped off from other movies, but overall the story is acceptable.

The CG and special effects in this movie are absolutely spectacular. The aliens move fluidly, never is overwhelming CG shoved in your face, and the CG is always on a real backdrop, and looks amazing. But the one thing that steals the show? The AMAZING sound for this movie. It sounds like a war, accurately portraying the deafening volume of explosions, gunfire, tank fire, everything. This is a war, and is sounds like it.

Overall, this movie has an acceptable story, with acceptable acting, amazing CG and special effects, and amazing sound. All the reviews I've read that are negative towards this movie are because it positively portrays the US military, and apparently that is unacceptable in a movie to those folks.