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A U.S. Marine staff sergeant (Aaron Eckhart) tries to rescue a family during “Battle: Los Angeles.” |
It’s been a long time since we’ve had an old-fashioned, dumbed-down, apolitical war movie masquerading as an alien invasion drama, but “Battle: Los Angeles” fits the bill quite nicely.
War movie?
Actually, “Battle: Los Angeles” is more like a bloated, nonstop violent video game, except we don’t have a controller to determine where the soldiers go and when they’ll blast the alien creatures who’ve invaded the California coast line and scorched the land like Sherman’s march from the sea.
The U.S. Marines in Jonathan Liebesman’s noisy, numbing war film aren’t the sharpest bayonets in the arsenal, either.
When they come into contact with their first alien fighter and presumably shoot it dead at the bottom of a backyard swimming pool, what do they do?
Send the corpse back to HQ so the military can study it and learn the nature of their extraterrestrial enemies?
Nope.
The Marines destroy it with a hand grenade. (Read more…)