Battle: Los Angeles
There is everything in Battle LA. But so much of everything that this blockbuster tribute to the guys in the Marines quickly becomes indigestible. Around the world, coasts are beset by strange and very nasty critters descended from the sky in much ugly vessels. In Santa Monica, near Los Angeles, a group of Marines is responsible for recovering some civilian survivors and protect them as long as possible.
Of course, we learn that the aliens are ruthless actually told us our water bite (what anticipation!) or the calendar is pretty veterinarian, which is, admittedly, very handy when it comes to dissecting an extra-land, but roughly Battle LA is nothing more than that. Two hours, which appear 50, of survival, at gunpoint, in a setting devastated, with some flights to Virilio patriotic morale, and the loop is closed, leaving the viewer in a state of exhaustion rare.
Maybe he should look into this poverty narrative justification of a thousand references (copied and pasted to be exact) would be queuing up to this ode to the courage, loyalty and dedication of the Marines signed Jonathan Liebesman (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, The Killing Room). A touch of homoeroticism in Top Gun, as a bus in Speed, a sergeant who would have preferred to retire like Leathal Weapon, of mechanized bugs in War of the Worlds, a look at the daily U.S. military as in any documentary on Iraq.
Not worth it, then, because in addition to its obvious lack of originality that does not hide the constant jibes, adrenaline boosted every second by a deluge of special effects and loud music or the dialogues of stupidity the limit of mental illness, Battle LA does not even bother to hide his true role: that of being a giant ad for the Marines and hysterical.
Actors prepared for their role during intensive military training, budget $100 million raised somehow, begun with the full support of the army (which lends some vehicles and premises), real marines among the extras, released on 03/11/11 to recall the number 0311, code used by the army to designate Infantry (no, this is not a joke): The question is no longer allowed. During the Korean War, Marilyn and other lovely pin ups were singing in the military to boost morale of troops. Today, they erected this monument paranoid and kind of amazing to their idiocy to better serve the gratitude of the Nation. Question period, one must believe …
