Here are some alternate titles I came up with while watching this...

Lesson: How Not To Write Dialogue

Aaron Eckhart: Commanding Anonymous Morons

Cliche: The Movie

Exposition: It's Everywhere

Michelle Rodriguez: Best Thing About This Movie

Second Act: Better Than The First

ADHD: The Editor

Michael Pena: Can't Save This

Reminder: Of Everything That Is Happening Every 10 Seconds Via Dialogue.

Call of Duty: Is More Fulfilling

Moments: Some Aren't Bad

Third Act: Better Than First Two

Guilty Pleasure: Possibly?

Terrible Movie: Definitely

Just watch the trailer again......vastly more entertaining than the final result.

And it's shorter.

Which is good.

A solid, if recognizable, war picture collides with a capable disaster epic to effective results in "Battle: Los Angeles," Jonathan Liebesman's science fiction trek through a ravaged LA. Focusing more on the grunts on the ground then the menace from the skies, the film rumbles forward as a group of soldiers attempts to shuttle civilians to safety while alien invaders rampage through the cities of Earth. Served by a heavy tone and an engaging sense of self, the film moves quickly yet thunderously through satisfyingly constructed set-pieces. This is a robust genre outing.

I watched it again. I'm an idiot.

Aliens invading off the California coast activate marines out of Camp Pendleton as a particular platoon scours a ruined Santa Monica to recover survivors before the area is leveled by air.

Plucky military sci-fi that skirts along its own genericness with a dependable Aaron Eckhart, impressive action sequences, and fly-on-the-wall combat drama. The biomechanical aliens are most interesting; resembling human-sized footsoldiers of the monstrosity in Antonio Margheriti's Alien from the Deep (1989). Their cantankerous drone aircraft and tanks look modeled after the war machines of the Metal Slug video games. Shame we'll never see more of them; weak box office tanked plans for a globetrotting multi-film franchise (sequel would've been set in Paris and so on). Watched via Sony's Blu-ray.

The Call of Duty of cinema.

I love the part where they wrap the dying Mexican into a burrito.

To quote my previous review:

Sometimes I want cheese. Big and bombastic cheese with a plot thinner than a tiny mint wafer and with emotions that are thrust in your face execution style.

And best of all? No humor. No stupid jokes. No characters goofing off in the face of imminent death. I want more of that.

Still one of my all time guilty pleasure faves.

2/4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjRXHVVfZu8&list=TLPQMDMwMzIwMjHSyXC_nTRLKw&index=11

Mi primera película a conciencia siempre es especial. Sexta vez, igual de especial.

better than star wars

What the hell I thoght Rihanna was in this !!!!

One of the worst movies ive ever seen. Completely heartless and predictable.

It's just all military jargon all the time

This is just normal L.A.

I’ve seen this roughly 3 times and I couldn’t tell you a damn thing that happens besides the obvious.

Very poor movie..

A nice little Sci-Fi action film.

Re-watch:

I must say it's better on re-watch compared to when it originally released in 2011.

Looking back at this film, it's a shame we never got any sequels to a film that has MANY possibilities for worldwide storylines, given the title of the film. It's a good military action movie with an alien twist. It does rely a bit too much on "shaky cam" and quick cuts during pretty much every scene, though it definitely has style. On top of that, a lot of the expected tropes from a military flick are present, but again balances that with a real sense of humanity, comradery, and even loss.

One thing I was surprised about, was how good its Score is! The action and CGI mixed with practical effects really hold up too. Overall it's a fun film with believable characters, and Aaron Eckhart in particular delivers a spectacular performance.