Imagine Black Hawk Down with ETs instead of Somalis and you'll have the measure of an explosive if functional actioner that will do while we're waiting for summer's big guns to arrive.
Pretty much cardboard, down to the heroic patriotic speeches, and less distinctive even than last year’s scarcely stellar Skyline, which trashed the same city. Things blow up good and Eckhart is a classier actor than his role warrants, but we’ve all been here before.
It’s the latest warzone flick which feels like a listless imitation of Xbox sharpshooting, in which the only thing asking to be reviewed is the CGI. (It’s fine.)
This is back to the old school – daft, but it gives you a few bangs for your buck.
It's just running, shooting, dodging, killing, not badly done but pretty numbing over two hours.
If a little more effort is put into script development for later instalments, they could end up being great pieces of action cinema. What’s more likely, though, is this one making substantial enough returns at the box office, and Hollywood churning out more of the same.
The movie's message is that by working together, us humans can overcome. It's a shame the film's makers were not so blessed.
The X-Box game this film wants to be would be ten times more involving, and wouldn't feature Ne-Yo.
Eckhart performs with laudable conviction, despite the laughable dialogue, but other characters blur into one, and you’ll end up feeling as weary as Eckhart’s marine.
Less exciting than watching someone play Warhammer.
The question is, why make the combat seem so realistic when everything else is quite the opposite?
A violent, over-amplified affair.
LA gets blown up once again in Battle: Los Angeles
Battle: Los Angeles--just the latest destructive blockbuster
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