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Battle: Los Angeles (2011)

Directed by Jonathan Liebesman

Science Fiction

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Overview

When once distant UFOs become a terrifying threat and an alien invasion force begins attacking Earths major costal and riverside cities, a U.S Marine staff sergeant and his team are sent into battle only to find they must take it upon themselves to defeat an unknown enemy and protect what remains of Los Angeles.

Rated PG-13 | Length 116 minutes

Actors

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

Viewing History (seen 7 times)

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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