Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Develiker terrible... so disappointed.

NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

whitephilip-61158 Finally getting round to watching this...I mean... As war movies go, it's not bad... The acting is good (even if the script is not), the action is there... It's really just a war movie with aliens, which is not what I was hoping for...But, there's no character development really... Lots of deaths... I mean, I wondered what happened to the dog at the beginning more than I cared about any of the characters really except the little kid...And the plot and logic does have some problems, like the whole "they have no air force" thing when they literally flew to the planet in the first place... It took a while to find out the reason the aliens attacked too - there's no way of guessing until it's explicitly stated (like foreshadowing or anything like that)... It's also very heavily "marines are the best thing", which I have issues with too...In terms of technical review, it's camera work is shaky, which is difficult to follow. I see what they're trying to do to make it gritty and so on, but it is a little distracting. The random zoom ins on people's faces is also odd (like in the scene where they're re-strategising after the bus blew up, and they're leaning over the guy who was shot and just... Zooms...)That being said, the background music is pretty amazing, and carries the majority of the emotion of the film.

jadavidson-74823 I know many people have rated this movie poorly. That's unfortunate because they miss many excellent points about the movie. First, this is really a good enactment of small unit action in a difficult situation. Troops put into action against an apparent superior opponent, trying to save a city. Throw in a hardened SSgt that his troops don't like for various misplaced reasons and the development of an esprit d corps among all the characters combine to make an enjoyable movie. It's not that predictable. Just cool your jets, sit back and enjoy.

christina_smith-70597 Action packed and well acted. When does the sequel come out???

James Jonathan Liebesman's "Battle Los Angeles" now has 7 years on it, but it will reward newcomers in the way that, like the go-anywhere heroes it portrays, it hits the ground running and never loses its pace or ENTIRELY authentic look.Of course, this film exists out in the real world to do more than tell an alien invasion story, but the willingness of the USMC and others to cooperate pays its dividends. Large-scale, multi-chopper scenes apparently featuring hundreds of personnel give way effortlessly to claustrophic street-by-street, building-by-building fighting, and many of the small touches look right (not least when a ***t-scared Marine gets jumpy when a washing machine clicks to the end of its cycle and in his startled moment, he ends up with a bag of washing powder falling all over him). It's that kind of film, and for me that's just right.The start, which sees the crisis unfold from "unexpected meteor shower" to "alien invasion" is also tense and again looks right, with curious TV reporters maintaining their professionalism until terror takes over quite abruptly.Acting is a kind of question mark, except that Eckhart, Rodriguez ... and Rodriguez, Rothhaar,Pesi, Parrack and co. all do ABSOLUTELY ENOUGH with their dialogue and actions to convince us that they ARE military personnel; and we can't really ask for more than that, can we?So this is basically a fighting Marines film with a well-told alien invasion story tacked on to it. Mostly, it delivers what it was made to deliver and it's both convincing and enjoyable.