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38The script, based on a novel by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, is deeply dumb, depressingly derivative (ripping off "Planet of the Apes" the most) and just plain nonsense.
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38So heavy and lifeless that you keep waiting for those three little front-row kibitzers from "Mystery Science Theatre 3000" to appear at the bottom of the screen to start goofing on it.
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38An underlit, overlong, underwritten and overloud albatross of a movie.
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30Shot after shot photographed at wobbly, off-center angles for no particular reason, weigh every action sequence down with super-slo-mo in lame imitation of "The Matrix" or end every single scene with a vertical wipe.
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25Goes from being tediously terrible to downright gigglesome.
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25Just a lumbering, poorly photographed piece of derivative sci-fi drivel, full of grunting extras scampering around in animal pelts and more dank, trash-strewn sets than I ever care to see again.
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20The story's broad strokes are painfully clichéd and its details make no sense at all.
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20The movie's mode is brutal and excremental.
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20Yet the overall look, though derivative ("The Matrix," "Blade Runner," "Waterworld," etc.), rates as Battlefield's one non-guilty pleasure.
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20Seems like a miscalculation on multiple levels.
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16A ghastly, unappealing mess that lacks a single absorbing character, engaging story line or entertaining snippet of dialogue.
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12Awful in so many different ways.
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12A sluggish, soporific dud, the dreariest big-budget science-fiction adventure since "Dune."
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12If filmmaking has ever been less thrilling and more disengaging, I'd like to see it.
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12It's bombastic, chaotic, plodding, visually dreary and patchily written.
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10A stinker.
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10The film is Travolta's baby, but indifference and boredom is everywhere.
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10The dialogue is inane, the acting wooden, and Roger Christian's directing choices are a lesson in sci-fi film cliché.
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10Let's cut to the chase: We're talking "Ishtar of the Apes."
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10The only danger in seeing this film is in busting a gut at its unintentional hilarity.
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0One of the darkest, ugliest, most uninvolving and incomprehensible major-studio fantasies I've ever seen.
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0Simply put, Battlefield Earth is the worst film I've seen in over 10 years, and believe me, that's saying a lot.
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0With this kind of epic ineptitude -- hell, the flick is set in the year 3000 -- you go for "worst of the millennium."
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0In the pantheon of cinematic train wrecks, from "Ishtar" to "Waterworld," set a place at the table for Battlefield Earth.
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Compounded by a dated visual style, patched-together special effects and ludicrous dialogue, Battlefield Earth is a wholly miserable experience.
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0It may be a bit early to make such judgments, but Battlefield Earth may well turn out to be the worst movie of this century.
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0A picture that will be hailed without controversy as the worst of its kind ever made.
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0The worst movie in living memory.
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0A million monkeys with a million crayons would be hard-pressed in a million years to create anything as cretinous as Battlefield Earth.
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Positive: 15 out of 85
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Mixed: 6 out of 85
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Negative: 64 out of 85
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