TeenzTen An action-packed slog

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

yuengling215 It really wasn't what I expected! It was a lot slower paced than I thought it was gona be. Aside from The cheesy wanna be soldiers & marines it was a o.k. Movie. They kept spelling out F.O.B. Instead of saying FOB. It just sounded weird... And there were a lot of corny moments as well. It def wasn't what I expected out of an "Invasion" movie. And did have some bad acting... So overall it wasn't a bad movie but it wasn't a great movie either.. If your bored and have nothing better to do give it a shot...

michelle_sage-39767 Felt more that this was a made for tv movie and would not have paid to see in movie theatres or paid to see it anywhere. Glad it was free on tv so I could turn it off.

su-36551 When enemies try to destroy us, they will always stand on the first line...

Screen_Blitz This alien invasion action vehicle stands as an 'Independence Day'- esque actioner masqueraded as an contemporary war film, with a story focuses on a battle between the military and a fleet of extraterrestrials coming to invade Earth. It is too bad however, that this film fails to remotely live up to its potential and settles for a by-the-numbers execution that never amount a playbook of nearly every war cliché ever put to film (only with special effects). Many film of the action genre including Roland Emmerich's 'Independence Day' come to show that if a film abandons on engaging at an intellectual level, it can at least sustain as a dumb popcorn flick. Unfortunately, this movie fails to even engage on that level and dedicates itself to a redundant special-effects extravaganza with nothing inspiring to invest in. Directed by Jonathan Liebesman, this film follows U.S Marine Staff Sergeant Michael Nantz (played by Aaron Eckhart) as he's alarmed a series of meteors that crash land on the city of Los Angeles. When the meteors reveal between aliens set to invade the Earth and wipe out the humankind, he must lead his squadron of marines including 2nd Lieutenant William Martinez (played by Roman Rodriguez), Corporal Jason Lockett (played by Cory Hardrict), Technical Sergeant Elena Santos (played by Michelle Rodriguez) along with many other fellow marines in a fight to stop the invasion.This big-budget science-fiction war piece exhausts the large portion of its time in mindless explosions and redundant gunfights, but fails to make time for any inspiring ideas. In the process, it relies on borrowing elements from a long string of more superior films of both sci-fi and war genre. The film opens up with an promising enough premise to grab the attention, and follows to introducing the characters, even if you have seen it before in other alien invasion flicks. But it is not long before the story drowns in a sea of tiresome clichés. Above the common tropes, the plot could have been just somewhat intriguing if it took the time to develop the character. Sadly, every character including the lead character portrayed by Aaron Eckhart is left stranded as one-dimensional figures, to the point where who's killed and who makes it to end will be the least of your concern. The cast performances are decent, but fail to shine full light on their acting muscle simply because they are each giving very little to work with. When the action sequences kick off, the pure intensity of each man vs. alien scene is greatly tarnished by ridiculous shaky cam and choppy editing that render to scenes visually incoherent. Although the editing improves in later action scenes and the special effects (and computer- generated effects) are sweets to the eyes, it is only a matter of time before the action grows repetitive and by the end, kinda boring. There may a pulse-pounding combat sequence or two, and the characters demonstrate a sense of courage and companionship that makes them somewhat admirable, but both of which do little to make up for a how soulless with film is.Battle Los Angeles is a shoddy alien invasion extravaganza that applies its near two-hour runtime to mindless big-budget chaos, but fails employ anything new beyond a cliché-ridden execution. While calling this film cheesy may feel a little bit of an overstatement, it is far from leveling up to anything inspiring. In end results, only the least demanding moviegoers are likely to find good entertainment value out of this one.