Battle: Los Angeles
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: March 11, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
37
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 35 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
16
Negative:
13
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenMar 11, 2011
Don't mean to boast, but I can suspend my disbelief as willingly as any credulous moviegoer. Yet not even an industrial crane would have helped here. Read full review
38
New York PostLou LumenickMar 11, 2011
This silly extraterrestrial-invasion epic somehow manages the feat of making the destruction of La La Land seem tedious. Read full review
38
Washington PostMark JenkinsMar 10, 2011
H.G. Wells did it better. This movie spends so much yawn-inducing time on variations of the same combat scenario that its final showdown feels rushed. Read full review
33
The A.V. ClubScott TobiasMar 10, 2011
It's loud, relentless, and difficult to endure, capturing the experience of ground-level alien warfare with woeful verisimilitude. Read full review
30
Chicago ReaderMichael WilmingtonMar 12, 2011
Packed with gung ho war-movie clichés and subpar shock-and-awe visual effects, this terminally stupid sci-fi adventure pits an army of tentacled aliens piloting "Transformer"-style robots against a platoon of stoic warriors from the Fifth Marines' Second Battalion. Read full review
30
The New York TimesA.O. ScottMar 10, 2011
As it lurches from Act II to Act III, Battle: Loss Angeles reveals itself to be a lousy movie. Read full review
25
Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanMar 10, 2011
Except for the relentless, jittery way that the film has been photographed, there's nothing of interest going on in it. It's all fractious guerrilla-newsreel "style" masquerading a void. Read full review
20
TimeRichard CorlissMar 12, 2011
The shaky-cam as used in "Cloverfield" and the Paul Greengrass "Bourne" films, and in TV shows from "NYPD Blue" to "24" to "The Office," is worse than amateurism; it's fake amateurism, the visual equivalent of a comedian pretending to have Parkinson's. Read full review
20
Time OutDavid FearMar 10, 2011
Fess up: You want to see Los Angeles get blowed up real good, and it's a measure of this movie's incompetence that it can't even deliver that vicarious thrill properly. Read full review
20
MovielineMichelle OrangeMar 10, 2011
It really is just sensory bombardment, and in two dimensions you have even less of a grasp of what's happening and of what you're looking at than the poor bastards on-screen. Read full review
20
Village VoiceNick SchagerMar 9, 2011
Not a single arresting image is found amid the sci-fi rubble, though unintentional laughs eventually arrive courtesy of a cornball motivational speech by Eckhart's hero. Read full review
12
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertMar 9, 2011
Here's a science-fiction film that's an insult to the words "science" and "fiction," and the hyphen in between them. You want to cut it up to clean under your fingernails. Read full review
0
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierMar 10, 2011
This one isn't original, or even bearable. By its thudding end, audiences may wish they could be zapped from the theater to escape the buzzing in their ears. Read full review
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