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Title: Long on fiction, short on science and absolutely zero sense
Review: The problems with this movie are legion: the ridiculous plot, and ridiculous plot holes, the costuming, the makeup, the awful dialog, John Travolta's weird "acting", the over the top angled cinematography, and the special effects that aren't very special. You would be hard pressed to find a science fiction movie, or any movie as humiliating to its creators or as unselfconsciously stupid as Battlefield Earth. That said, you owe it to yourself and future generations of cineasts to see it once, either as a cautionary tale regarding bad film making or as as grand an unintentional comedy as you are likely to see. You'll either laugh yourself silly or your jaw will drop with disbelief. Perhaps you'll do both. In the "so bad its good" category Battlefield Earth earns five stars. However that's too much irony for me, so I gotta give it one.
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