Battle of Los Angeles
2011 Directed by Mark Atkins
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In February 1942 Us forces engaged an unidentified flying object above Los Angeles. Now almost 70 years later, the alien invaders have returned.
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I feel confident in assuming they had a malapropriated budget when making this film. For shame.
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So, flicking through the Sky TV guide, and this was on SyFy. Now, I've seen Battle: Los Angeles on a long flight, and it was pretty rubbish, but I figured that seeing it on the big screen in HD would let me see what I really think of it.
But, this is not that film. This is the SyFy home grown rip off, that takes parts of battle: Los Angeles, V, Independence Day and others, and does a poor imitation. Unfortunately, it's no Mega Shark versus Giant Octopus in that its so bad it's good, it's just bad, one to avoid.
Still, I did get my three films for the day as part of December Nuttiness.
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To be fair, while no one is stupid enough to pick up 200 M.P.H. instead of Fast Five, here they’re just shameless with the title. It starts with the traditional bad CGI expected from The Asylum, we get some explosions, an alien ship, some airplanes, you know, the stuff that makes a movie great.
Soon we are introduced with some military characters, one of them being Robert Pike Daniel, who just shouts the most cliché military dialogue you can possibly write and then backs it up by blowing up an alien ship by shooting it a few times from a revolver.
It isn’t strictly a Battle: Los Angeles rip-off, it’s mostly just various alien-related movies, for example the alien mothership…
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Tries to be a war movie, in the spirit of Black Hawk Down or Band of Brothers. And the first act actually worked quite well for me. But the downhill slide is steep, and the cliches score a coup. The epic scope of the battle is not conveyed and we are expected to believe that our four or five main characters are the only major players in an epic battle.
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It is alright. I like action flicks and enjoyed it because of that but wasn't blown away by anything. Enjoyable but not a great film.
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So, flicking through the Sky TV guide, and this was on SyFy. Now, I've seen Battle: Los Angeles on a long flight, and it was pretty rubbish, but I figured that seeing it on the big screen in HD would let me see what I really think of it.
But, this is not that film. This is the SyFy home grown rip off, that takes parts of battle: Los Angeles, V, Independence Day and others, and does a poor imitation. Unfortunately, it's no Mega Shark versus Giant Octopus in that its so bad it's good, it's just bad, one to avoid.
Still, I did get my three films for the day as part of December Nuttiness.
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A good way to blow a huge budget.
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[action] I was really invested and loved about 45 minutes of the movie. The whole movie was shot a lot like Friday Night Lights - close moving camera, lots of zooms, shooting through obstacles. That camera style works really well for the ground level fighting that is done building to building. I really liked that. Unfortunately that wasn’t the whole movie. Too many of the plot points became too dumb to handle. I probably wouldn’t mind re-watching large chunks of the film again though.
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I appreciate that they aimed for semi-realism despite the presence of extraterrestrials. Didn't quite work though, did it?
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Director Jonathan Liebesman, the man who brought us DARKNESS FALLS and a TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE prequel, is about to make contact with his latest film, BATTLE LOS ANGELES. He drops his audience right into the middle of an epic alien invasion bigger than anything you’ve ever seen before on screen. And then, right when it looks like it’s about to get really dire, he takes the action back 24 hours, like a bad television drama might, so that we can contextualize exactly what this devastation has consumed, without realizing whatsoever that no one really cares what happened earlier. All we want to see is what happens next.
By the time you get to what is next, you won’t care what…