My review of Battle: Los Angeles

Posted by: bob on Sunday August 7th 2011

Battle: Los Angeles is an alien invasion movie that came out some time during the spring of 2011 I think. I remember seeing the previews in the theatre for it and thinking “ooo, that looks pretty slick” but I never had time to go see it. Few months ago I managed to have it sitting in /Users/bob/Movies and just today I finally got around to watching it.

Watching this movie was like watching your 7 year old cousin play Halo, except instead of being a badass Spartian marine they were playing as the retarded generic marines that shout random generic things and die before the level even really starts. In fact, if you take the entire Halo series (which is what, five games now?) and compress them down into two hours and totally forget to put Master Chief or any Spartian, Warthogs, and Zombies in it, (read: forgetting to putting any of the cool things in) that is how I felt after watching it.

The movie for what it was suppose to be was decent, but I think it needed less “get to know the human condition of these marines” and more actual battle strategies aside from “turn off the radios they are tracking the signals!”