Our plot and attention is not split and spread to several places or groups of people around the country and world. We stick with one group the whole way through and that's the movie's strength.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 16, 2024

After a shotgun wedding between Black Hawk Down and Independence Day, this movie was the unwanted offspring—an unintelligible mixture of war movies and science-fiction that insults the credibility of both genres.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 31, 2023

It’s aim was to be a pre-summer popcorn action movie and it hits it’s mark.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 19, 2022

Thanks to some awesome action sequences and Eckhart's performance, this film is worth a look.

Full Review | Feb 11, 2022

Is at its core a war movie, and one with the requisite cross-section of personalities in its assemblage of Marines and Air Force personnel.

Full Review | May 6, 2021

Plays like an only sporadically entertaining Marines propaganda film.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 31, 2021

The creators have definitely played their video games and watched their alien invasion films.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 30, 2020

Every frame of Battle: Los Angeles feels wasted.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4.0 | Sep 2, 2020

Over the years movies have taught many important lessons, chief among these are don't retire, never retire, nothing good will come of it.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Jul 13, 2020

I was impressed that Battle: Los Angeles explored the reality of "tough calls" and didn't pander and suggest that there is always a black and a white. So while it isn't a great film, I felt it did a good job of exploring this issue.

Full Review | Apr 2, 2020

While this one won't change your life, it will entertain you for a couple of hours.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 10, 2019

Yet another run-of-the-mill alien invasion movie with nothing original to say.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 7, 2019

It could be better (particularly in some of its dialogue), but on the whole, Battle: Los Angeles is a good example of its genre.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Feb 16, 2019

So, yes, Battle: Los Angeles is, despite its extraterrestrial additions, a standard-issue war flick. It's a solid one, though.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 8, 2019

I didn't think it was possible to make SFX sequences more baffling and headache inducing than Transformers 2, but Battle: LA found a way.

Full Review | Oct 24, 2017

Case in point: Battle: Los Angeles, an alien-invasion disaster piece so loud, ham-fisted and joyless-so aggressively lousy-that its only real usefulness is to make one better appreciate the deft touch of a Roland Emmerich.

Full Review | Jun 28, 2013

Misses every mark it's aiming at, and then misses countless more.

Full Review | Original Score: D | Jun 22, 2013

Battle: Los Angeles misses every mark it aims for. Aside from the well done special effects nothing in this movie is worth recommending.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10 | Jun 2, 2013

It's not new, it's not novel and it's not art. But as a popcorn movie a couple of months out of summer season, it'll have to do.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 23, 2013

Just the worst, most cliché-ridden bunch of faceless cannon fodder you've ever had the misfortune to watch die.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 28, 2012