Title: Battle: Los Angeles (Battle: LA)
Year: 2011
Rating: PG-13
Synopsis: A meteor shower rains down on earth. It soon becomes apparent that the meteors are in fact ships, and soon seemingly invincible aliens are rampaging across every major city, harvesting our most important substance: water. Put in charge of a desperate few survivng soldiers, Staff Sergeant Nantz leads the way across the barren landscape that was one Los Angeles.
Best Part/Best "Phrase": Don't pick up foreign objects.
Favorite Actor: They're all good actors, but I don't have a favorite one.
Music Quality: Excellent, fits the mood all the way through.
Language: Not too much here.
Pros: This is a great War of the Worlds/Signs/Independence Day movie. It has the music, it has the gratuitous amount of explosions, it has the weird alien design, it has the mothership(s), and it has the heroic white guy blasting pretty much anything and everything standing in his way. And while the primary excitement comes from all the insane action pumped into nearly every scene, the movie also has moments of truly heartfelt moments as the soldiers risk their lives to protect others.
Cons: Before we get carried away singing praises, the movie is just another hash of the other three movies mentioned above. The movie brings nothing new to the alien franchise. They want our resources. We kill them. Bam, done. Also, the movie goes overboard on making Nantz your everyday tough guy war hero. The fact is so blatant it's almost insulting.
Rating: 7.2/10
Rewatch Value: Why? District 9 was creative, and new. This one isn't.
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