In a way. Not once is Battle: Los Angeles comfortable to listen to. Not once. The whole thing lurches from inaudibly muffled mumbling to full-on, all-out exploding screams over and over again.
Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from until his death in In , he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Rated PG for sustained and intense sequences of war violence and destruction, and for language. Aaron Eckhart as Nantz. Michelle Rodriguez as Elena. Bridget Moynahan as Michele. Michael Pena as Joe. Reviews Invasion of the stick figures from outer space!
Roger Ebert March 09, Now streaming on:. Powered by JustWatch. Now playing. Ida Red Glenn Kenny. The Addams Family 2 Nell Minow. They arrive at the FOB, only to discover that it has already been destroyed by the aliens, nullifying the airstrike. They decide to head for another extraction point, where a helicopter should be available to evacuate them. Before they embark, Rincon dies of his wounds and Corporal Lockett whose brother died under Nantz's command openly doubts Nantz's ability to lead.
Nantz reassures him and the platoon reaches the extraction point. As they are being evacuated, Nantz spots a large black area on the ground where electric power seems to be disabled. Nantz believes the black area to be the location of the alien command center and that it is hidden underground. Nantz disembarks from the helicopter and his platoon follows, planning to find the exact location of the command center so they can call in a missile strike. Going underground, the Marines confirm the presence of a large alien vessel.
They return to the surface and succeed in calling in a missile strike using laser designators. However, the command center remains intact and rises from the ground.
The Marines repel alien forces as more missiles are launched at the hovering command center, and eventually they destroyed it. This disables all the alien aircraft in the area, forcing the alien ground forces to retreat. Soon after, the team is extracted to a temporary base in the Mojave Desert, where they are greeted as heroes for their outstanding bravery. All other cities under attack now plan to emulate their strategy, destroying the alien command center in each city. More forces are being sent to Los Angeles to finish off the aliens there.
Despite orders to rest, Nantz and the platoon instead rejoin the fight. Liebesman also drew inspiration from YouTube videos of Marines fighting in Fallujah for the look of the film. As a result the film was not shot in 3D as the director felt that combined with the handheld camera style of shooting would make the audience "throw up in two minutes. The filmmakers tested shooting the film digitally on a Red camera, but found the camera could not capture the same quality image as standard film.
The film was shot for a PG rating, as the director felt making the film overly gory did not suit the more suspenseful tone they were trying to achieve. The filmmakers chose to use this event as the basis for the film in an attempt to help ground the film in reality. The plot of the film suggests the unidentified aircraft were actually alien UFOs on a reconnaissance mission, scouting the Earth to prepare for an eventual attack, which was then covered up by the government, though the filmmakers have stated they do not actually believe this is what happened in real life.
None of that makes "Battle: Los Angeles" a bad movie. It's clear that, despite the marketing campaign's efforts to tie the film to the air raid scare known as "the Battle of Los Angeles" — which some believe to be evidence of contact with UFOs — the movie is never about the aliens. It's a war movie, with an apolitical enemy that the audience doesn't have to feel guilty about as they're being blown away by members of the U.
On that level, it works to an extent. The easy comparison is to first-person shooter video games like "Call of Duty"; the main characters all fit that pixelated mold, starting with Aaron Eckhart's Marine Staff Sgt.
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