This is the worst movie I have ever seen in my life. And it been 7 years since I suffered through this atrocity in theatres and to this day I still ain't seen nothing worse than this garbage, and there have been a lot of awful movies this decade. The whole movie is stuff blowing up and muscle men cheering. It was like watching a video game play itself, except even your average video game has more plot than this. Nothing happened. Just stuff blowing up. You wanna watch stuff blow up, play some video games, so at least you can have the joy of making the stuff blow up.

One of the best action movie, I have seen in a long time. Solid acting, and special affects were awesome. I was caught up in the movie, it was great.

It's all a matter of taste, I suppose. If you're really into the action stuff - and if you are, that's great - you'll love this movie. There's lots of action in this. Lots of gunfights, lots of combat. What was believed to be a meteor shower actually turned out to be aliens whose ships land in the oceans and start to attack 20 earth cities. Obviously, this movie centres on the battle for Los Angeles, basically following a platoon of US Marines as they do battle with the bad guys from outer space and try to protect a few civilians they come across while doing so. Beyond that there's no real plot or story to this. We really don't learn very much about the aliens or why they were attacking - except that they wanted our water. It reminded me a little bit of War of the Worlds - although that (actually both movie versions) was better.The characters really aren't especially fleshed out or interesting. We get a bit of a backstory on Staff Sargeant Nantz (Aaron Eckhardt.) He had led a platoon in Afghanistan or Iraq (can't remember if it was named specifically) and lost some men. He blames himself for their loss and was getting ready to retire until he was sent back into battle with the platoon fighting the alien invaders. Fortunately for him the brother of one of the men he lost was in the same platoon. So there's a bit of interplay there, some mistrust, some respect having to be re-earned. But basically this was about the battle. It went on for too long. It was well portrayed, but after a while I started to lose interest, to be honest, because it didn't really seem to be going anywhere, and you knew eventually where it would have to go - these aliens would have to be defeated. So, for about half the movie I was paying attention; then my mind did begin to wander a bit as I waited for the end.What it comes right down to is that this is pretty standard stuff about an alien invasion of earth. There's nothing especially unique about it to capture or hold your attention. If you like non-stop battles with invaders from outer space - this is your kind of movie. For me: 4/10

This alien invasion action vehicle stands as an 'Independence Day'- esque actioner masqueraded as an contemporary war film, with a story focuses on a battle between the military and a fleet of extraterrestrials coming to invade Earth. It is too bad however, that this film fails to remotely live up to its potential and settles for a by-the-numbers execution that never amount a playbook of nearly every war cliché ever put to film (only with special effects). Many film of the action genre including Roland Emmerich's 'Independence Day' come to show that if a film abandons on engaging at an intellectual level, it can at least sustain as a dumb popcorn flick. Unfortunately, this movie fails to even engage on that level and dedicates itself to a redundant special-effects extravaganza with nothing inspiring to invest in. Directed by Jonathan Liebesman, this film follows U.S Marine Staff Sergeant Michael Nantz (played by Aaron Eckhart) as he's alarmed a series of meteors that crash land on the city of Los Angeles. When the meteors reveal between aliens set to invade the Earth and wipe out the humankind, he must lead his squadron of marines including 2nd Lieutenant William Martinez (played by Roman Rodriguez), Corporal Jason Lockett (played by Cory Hardrict), Technical Sergeant Elena Santos (played by Michelle Rodriguez) along with many other fellow marines in a fight to stop the invasion.This big-budget science-fiction war piece exhausts the large portion of its time in mindless explosions and redundant gunfights, but fails to make time for any inspiring ideas. In the process, it relies on borrowing elements from a long string of more superior films of both sci-fi and war genre. The film opens up with an promising enough premise to grab the attention, and follows to introducing the characters, even if you have seen it before in other alien invasion flicks. But it is not long before the story drowns in a sea of tiresome clichés. Above the common tropes, the plot could have been just somewhat intriguing if it took the time to develop the character. Sadly, every character including the lead character portrayed by Aaron Eckhart is left stranded as one-dimensional figures, to the point where who's killed and who makes it to end will be the least of your concern. The cast performances are decent, but fail to shine full light on their acting muscle simply because they are each giving very little to work with. When the action sequences kick off, the pure intensity of each man vs. alien scene is greatly tarnished by ridiculous shaky cam and choppy editing that render to scenes visually incoherent. Although the editing improves in later action scenes and the special effects (and computer- generated effects) are sweets to the eyes, it is only a matter of time before the action grows repetitive and by the end, kinda boring. There may a pulse-pounding combat sequence or two, and the characters demonstrate a sense of courage and companionship that makes them somewhat admirable, but both of which do little to make up for a how soulless with film is.Battle Los Angeles is a shoddy alien invasion extravaganza that applies its near two-hour runtime to mindless big-budget chaos, but fails employ anything new beyond a cliché-ridden execution. While calling this film cheesy may feel a little bit of an overstatement, it is far from leveling up to anything inspiring. In end results, only the least demanding moviegoers are likely to find good entertainment value out of this one.