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Rating: 5.5 stars

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Seen on: 06/13/2012, 03/12/2011

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Battle: Los Angeles (2011)

Directed by Jonathan Liebesman

Science Fiction

Most recently watched by sensoria, sensoria

Overview

When once distant UFOs become a terrifying threat attacking Earth, a Marine staff sergeant and his team take it upon themselves to face the enemy and protect what remains of the planet.

Rated PG-13 | Length 116 minutes

Actors

Lucas Till | Michael Peña | Aaron Eckhart | Jim Palmer | Michelle Rodriguez | Bridget Moynahan | Ne-Yo | E. Roger Mitchell | Rus Blackwell | Neil Brown Jr. | James Hiroyuki Liao | David Jensen | Taylor Handley | Ramón Rodríguez | Cory Hardrict | Noel Fisher | Jim Parrack | Brandi Coleman | Susie Abromeit | Keith Middlebrook | Joey King | Joe Chrest | Bryce Cass | Will Rothhaar | Gino Anthony Pesi | Marlon Young | Tom Hillmann | Michelle Pierce | Adetokumboh M'Cormack | Jadin Gould | Taryn Southern | Jessica Heap | Nzinga Blake | Kenneth Brown Jr. | Stacey Turner | Ava Bogle | Nick Jones Jr. | Phillip Lawrence | Lena Clark | Beth Keener | Jamie Norwood | Todd Cochran | James D. Dever | Alex Aristidis | Charlotte Biggs | Grant Case | Kurt Deville | Courtney Munch | Michael Wozniak

Viewing Notes

My kids had been anticipating this movie for some time, so we took the whole family out, met my friends Jay and Pat, and did a showing at the Muvico Mega Movie Palace. Muvico has the epically comfy seats and digital projection and THX certified sound system, so it’s the perfect place to view an explody, effects-laden popcorn movie like this.

And that’s exactly what Battle:LA is, make no mistake. If you showed up looking for involved plot or deep character profiles, well you’re the sucker. Ain’t none of that here!

I honestly don’t understand the critics who alternately bashed and lauded this movie before it came out. I heard everything from “greatest movie ever!” to “Worst Hollywood directed movie I ever saw.” Really? Then you must not get out much.

Shit blows up; there is CONSTANT gunfire and explosions, all nicely packaged with an interminable surge of patriotic music underscoring every bit of action.

It does play like a recruiting movie for the marines, which, along with the score, is perhaps the most annoying part of the whole thing.

There is also a lot of frenetic camerawork that threatened to make me ill in the first part of the movie, but either I adjusted to it or there was less of it later on in the movie, because I was fine 20 or so minutes in.

It did feel overly long, at 116 minutes. There were a few too many objectives that got a bit annoying.

Still, a fun, mindless bit of entertainment that I enjoyed for what it was. Ultimately forgettable, but I’ll probably buy it on Blu Ray just to rattle my subwoofer and enjoy bullets wizzing past my head.

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