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Battle: Los Angeles

PG-13

Released Mar 11, 2011

1h 56m

Sci-Fi

Action

List

37%

214 Reviews

Tomatometer

48%

50,000+ Ratings

Audience Score

For many years, humans have reported various UFO sightings around the world, fueling speculation about the existence of life on other worlds. In 2011, mankind learns the truth the hard way when alien invaders attack. One by one, the world's great cities fall, leaving Los Angeles as the battleground for humanity's last stand. It's up to a Marine staff sergeant (Aaron Eckhart) and his platoon to draw a line in the sand against a powerful enemy unlike any previously encountered.

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Critics Consensus

Overlong and overly burdened with war movie clichés, Battle: Los Angeles will entertain only the most ardent action junkies.

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Scott Foundas

Film Comment Magazine

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.

Jun 28, 2013

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Michael Wilmington

Chicago Reader

Terminally stupid.

Dec 6, 2011

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Anthony Lane

New Yorker

If the talk had been surgically removed, leaving only the sights and sounds of combat, this could have been a striking, semiabstract display of aggressive energy; as it is, any viewer over twelve will go for the laughs.

Mar 21, 2011

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Don Shanahan

Every Movie Has a Lesson

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.

Rated: 3/5

Feb 16, 2024

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

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.

Rated: 1/4

Jul 31, 2023

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Keith Garlington

Keith & the Movies

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

Rated: 2.5/5

Aug 19, 2022

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Tiffany R

Satisfied my military action craving like very little else could have, I'd watch this as a television show or a seven movie series any time.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/25/24

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Spike G

Ok enough to pass the time

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/06/24

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Edward D

I'm a four tour combat veteran and I love this movie. There, I said it.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/12/24

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Azhrei2000

So many people bad mouth this movie but every time i watch it it's like one of my favorites. I guess people can't handle the "realness" of some of it. Where's the sequel... it needs one to finish it off. :/

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

11/20/23

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Vladimir C

La Película Cumple Realmente Con Su Trama, La Invasión De Una Metrópoli Importante De Los Estados Unidos, Quizas Sea Una Muestra Del Patriotismo Estadounidense, Sin Embargo, Cumple Expectativas No Basadas En Una Aburrida Narrativa De Historias Llenas De Habladurías En Una Película Como Su Género Lo Indica, Bélica

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

11/08/23

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Mason B

its a really good movie plus the best part was the city destruction 10/10

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

10/05/23

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Jonathan Liebesman

Director

Aaron Eckhart

Ssgt. Michael Nantz

Michelle Rodriguez

Tsgt. Elena Santos

Ramón Rodríguez

2nd Lt. William Martinez

Bridget Moynahan

Michele

Ne-Yo

Cpl. Kevin Harris

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Battle: Los Angeles: Official Clip - Defeating the Aliens

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Battle: Los Angeles: Official Clip - Destroying the Alien Drone

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Battle: Los Angeles: Official Clip - The Siege Continues

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Synopsis

For many years, humans have reported various UFO sightings around the world, fueling speculation about the existence of life on other worlds. In 2011, mankind learns the truth the hard way when alien invaders attack. One by one, the world's great cities fall, leaving Los Angeles as the battleground for humanity's last stand. It's up to a Marine staff sergeant (Aaron Eckhart) and his platoon to draw a line in the sand against a powerful enemy unlike any previously encountered.

Director: Jonathan Liebesman
Producer: Jeffrey Chernov, David Greenblatt
Screenwriter: Christopher Bertolini
Distributor: Sony Pictures Entertainment
Production Co: Original Film
Rating: PG-13 (Sustained/Intense Seq. of War|Language|Violence and Destruction)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Action
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 11, 2011, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 5, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA): $83.6M
Runtime: 1h 56m
Sound Mix: SDDS, Dolby Digital, DTS

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