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Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Rodriguez, Ramon Rodriguez & Bridget MoynahanDirector: Jonathan LiebesmanBattle: Los Angeles is a war movie first, science fiction second. It’s got it all: a burned-out retiring sergeant who gets drawn back in because, dammit, the Marines need him; the guy who’s about to get married; the guy who’s still a virgin; the guy suffering from shell shock and who just might crack; the newbie officer with a lot of book learning who you just know is going to freeze under pressure a
Does exactly what is says on the tin-or-M16,
I never do this – write a review for a film that I’ve seen at the cinema long before it comes out on DVD – but I felt everyone, some of whom might be put off by the sniffy negative reviews in the press, should know – when deciding on purchasing – this simple fact: Battle: Los Angeles is great!
It’s Independence Day meets Saving Private Ryan – aliens v grunts in a joggly-camera, whirling ordnance, big explosion, LA-set Nirvana of shooting mayhem. The aliens are curiously limited – all that space travel and no decent AWACs or infra-red detection systems or ray guns – but that makes it a (reasonably) fair fight and allows Staff Sergeant Aaron Eckhart, Hoyt out of ‘True Blood’ and some other less familiar faces to actually trade fire to some effect with these extra-terrestrial scavengers.
Once the ‘introduce the characters’ bit is over, the film becomes a series of military cliff-hangers leavened by the odd ‘come on guys’ speech. A bus chase (like in Speed) gets chucked in too. There are also ‘borrowings’ from ‘Aliens,’ but it feels more like homage than plagiarism.
Crucially, it’s played straight. There is no ‘I know this is ridiculous’ winking at the camera asides – just action. I think it’s far more honest as a result. Some critics called it boorish and lacking in irony, but I think it does exactly what it says on the tin: massive shoot ‘em up; Marines v Aliens; ludicrously exciting.
What’s not to like?
If you know what films you like, you’ll probably already know whether you want to see/own this film. It’s not going to disappoint unlike some other ‘actioners’ I could name.
Recommended.
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Neither a good war film nor sci-fi movie, ‘Battle: Los Angeles’ at least raises a hoot with its half-brained premise: yep, the aliens have come to steal our water (all of it!). A couple of days into their campaign they have apparently made a significant dent in Earth’s water supply…. Now, as the earth’s water reservoir actually amounts to approximately 320 million cubic miles, it seems strange that a civilisation capable of ‘uploading’ this vast volume/mass can’t kill off a few grunts … Maybe they should have scooshed them with some of that misappropraited water… What a science-fiction film always needs is a good concept, but this one is simply wet…
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