Tuesday 22 March 2011

Battle Los Angeles (2011) 5/10

Starring : Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Rodriguez, Bridget Moynahan
Director : Jonathan Liebesman
Running Time : 111 mins

On the day that he is due to retire from the marines, Michael Nantz () is reassigned to a new platoon that are being sent to investigate some mysterious meteors that have entered the Earth’s atmosphere. They have been reported as slowing down as they are about to hit the surface, and strange aliens have emerged from them and started to kill anyone they come across.

This action movie was, in my opinion, pretty disappointing. A reasonably imaginative premise is almost completely ruined by focussing on the All-American military forces rather than the aliens, which would have been much more interesting, and going in the usual direction that American action movies do. The characters were one-dimensional, and Aaron Eckhart in the lead role of an action movie just felt wrong to me.

You’ll like this if you liked : Armageddon

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