Battle: Los Angeles | Review

Stay in, switch off your inquisitive mind, and enjoy a cheesy action flick. Major cities around the world are bombarded with large meteors, which appear to slow in speed just before entering the earth's atmosphere. Aliens have landed near L.A. and are killing whomever they encounter!

Recently retired Staff Seargent Nantz (Aaron Eckhart) is called back into military duty. A team, including Nantz, is flown into Santa Monica Airport to complete a mission where they must rescue civilians who are trapped at a police station. Time ticks as the team struggles to complete their mission before the Air Force wipes out the area into which they have entered.

In the fashion of typical action movies, Battle: Los Angeles provided an abundance of cheesy lines and close-calls. I found the camera rather jerky and while I can see a link between a shaky camera representing an unstable time, I found it was overdone.

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I give this movie a 7/10 and here's why:
Plot: The storyline is rather predictable - standard for the average action film.
Characters: I found the characters exaggerated and often unrealistic.
Visuals: This movie is, without a doubt, visually pleasing.
Genre rating for action: This movie was packed with action! To quote Mike, my boyfriend, "They came up with great new ways to blow things up!" He speaks the truth here. One instance is when a grenade is thrown into a pool where an alien is hiding and another includes a decoy to a petrol station where a sergeant then fires shots causing a massive explosion and death to all nearby invaders.

Trailer courtesy of IMDB.