| 53 |
Mr. Showbiz
It's a lock to pile up the honors during Hollywood's annual awards season next spring (at the Golden Raspberries and the MTV Movie Awards).
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Is it worth seeing once? Sure.
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| 50 |
Chicago Tribune
Scientology or not, the movie is a battlefield bummer that makes you want to revolt.
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| 50 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
It should have warned us that logic was also hitting hard times.
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| 38 |
Baltimore Sun
An underlit, overlong, underwritten and overloud albatross of a movie.
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| 38 |
Boston Globe
So 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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| 38 |
USA Today
The 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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| 30 |
Salon.com
Shot 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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| 25 |
Entertainment Weekly
Just 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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| 25 |
New York Post
Goes from being tediously terrible to downright gigglesome.
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| 20 |
Village Voice
The movie's mode is brutal and excremental.
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| 20 |
Variety
Yet the overall look, though derivative ("The Matrix," "Blade Runner," "Waterworld," etc.), rates as Battlefield's one non-guilty pleasure.
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| 20 |
Chicago Reader
Seems like a miscalculation on multiple levels.
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| 20 |
TV Guide
The story's broad strokes are painfully clichéd and its details make no sense at all.
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| 16 |
Portland Oregonian
A ghastly, unappealing mess that lacks a single absorbing character, engaging story line or entertaining snippet of dialogue.
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| 12 |
Charlotte Observer
It's bombastic, chaotic, plodding, visually dreary and patchily written.
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| 12 |
Miami Herald
A sluggish, soporific dud, the dreariest big-budget science-fiction adventure since "Dune."
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| 12 |
San Francisco Examiner
If filmmaking has ever been less thrilling and more disengaging, I'd like to see it.
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| 12 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Awful in so many different ways.
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| 10 |
Washington Post
Let's cut to the chase: We're talking "Ishtar of the Apes."
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| 10 |
LA Weekly
A stinker.
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| 10 |
Film.com
The film is Travolta's baby, but indifference and boredom is everywhere.
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| 10 |
Newsweek
The dialogue is inane, the acting wooden, and Roger Christian's directing choices are a lesson in sci-fi film cliché.
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| 10 |
TNT RoughCut
The only danger in seeing this film is in busting a gut at its unintentional hilarity.
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| 0 |
Rolling Stone
With 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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| 0 |
Film.com
In the pantheon of cinematic train wrecks, from "Ishtar" to "Waterworld," set a place at the table for Battlefield Earth.
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| 0 |
Austin Chronicle
Simply 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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| 0 |
Los Angeles Times
Robin Rauzi
Compounded by a dated visual style, patched-together special effects and ludicrous dialogue, Battlefield Earth is a wholly miserable experience.
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| 0 |
Washington Post
A 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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| 0 |
The New York Times
It 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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| 0 |
Time
The worst movie in living memory.
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| 0 |
New York Daily News
One of the darkest, ugliest, most uninvolving and incomprehensible major-studio fantasies I've ever seen.
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| 0 |
Slate
A picture that will be hailed without controversy as the worst of its kind ever made.
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