Battle: Los Angeles is the story of LA (and the rest of the world) under attack from aliens. Hmm…doesn’t sound that original. Now hear the words from star Aaron Eckhart: "The goal was: this is a war movie, a documentary style war movie—with aliens in it” Now sounds good now, huh? (Ok, sounds better). Sadly, this film was doomed from the start thanks to its appalling script. Corny sentimentality and just plain old cheese is plastered all over this film from start to finish. Also, from the soon to be retired staff sergeant (Eckhart) being called back into action to fight the Aliens to the family that is rescued half-way through the film, no cliché is left untouched. The awful dire-logue spoken by the military would have even James Cameron shaking his head. To be fair to director Jonathan Liebesman he does conjure a few effective battles scenes. These are of a small scale, more intrusive nature though and are indicative of what the film was trying to achieve. Unfortunately it all goes too big too soon and before long its no-stop battles scenes, not helped by some dubious effects at times. In effect, this is a computer game masked as a film. If this was a computer game its lack of originality wouldn’t be a problem, but on the big screen its deficit of fresh ideas are plain to all. More eagle eyed viewers may also notice this films resemblance to the similarly filmed Skyline (check out the Net for a further details re threats of lawsuits). Though that wasn’t a cracker either, it’s still slightly better than this corn fest.
The OC Film Sting Final Verdict
USA! USA! USA! Meh. Rating:4/10.
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