Title: Perhaps Watchable as a Comedy
Product review: After reading enough good reviews and having a liking for any kind of war flick, I decided to buy the film at my local Walmart. Since I watched the film in my living room, I could not walk out. Battle: Los Angeles is not a film as much as a video game, with video sequences that repeat in intent if not literally so, and audio and dialogue that DOES repeat. Often. Couple that with a lame minimalistic storyline and incredibly bad acting, and you have one of the worst films in a long time. If you are a fan of the original SF war film Starship Troopers, as I am, you will be sorely disappointed in this work which borrows extensively from better films such as Independence Day, War of the Worlds, District 9, and even Skyline. Not that it doesn't have some interest for film students. If you are fan of Avid film editing you will enjoy taking the sequences apart to see how modern editing can make something out of nothing. But for the rest of us, there are much better choices.
Would you say this review depicts the product in a flattering or unflattering light?
