Review of Battle: Los Angeles (2011) by Dave M — 31 Dec 2017
Battle: Los Angeles. In the end, the aliens lost and so did the audience. The insanely promising looking trailer gave me such hope, but I was incredibly disappointed with the endless cliches, bullshit dialogue, and uninteresting melodramatic marine garbage. Nothing made me care about the soldiers. I never bought into the idea that this was how an alien invasion would go down. One minute after Tupac's "California Love" started playing a mere three minutes in, I should have walked out.
The only redeeming factor here was probably Aaron Eckhart who you could tell was struggling to do his best, but even he couldn't deliver some of the film's most cringe inducing lines.
The aliens themselves looked like mechanical jellyfish with arms and legs. And much like the jellyfish, they were devoid of any personality and menace; just an extreme nuisance.
If you're ever in a room with an amateur filmmaker who says, "Let's make a movie that looks and feels like Call of Duty," punch 'em right in the penis.
This review of Battle: Los Angeles (2011) was written by Dave M on 31 Dec 2017.
Battle: Los Angeles has generally received mixed reviews.
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