su-36551 When enemies try to destroy us, they will always stand on the first line...

The Movie Diorama Another year, another obligatory mediocre war blockbuster with the inclusion of A-listers in a bid to make money. Surprisingly I can survive the mediocrity embedded in those films...this however is a different story. Earth is attacked by extraterrestrials in which we follow a group of marines who are tasked in securing Los Angeles, which coincidentally hosts the control tower for the alien drones. In a modern day situation like this, you have to think to yourself "why didn't they just nuke the city and be done with it?". I wish they did, I wouldn't have had to sit through this long overdrawn soulless mess. The struggle was real as I battled myself to not fall asleep watching this snooze inducing catastrophe. Eckhart does his best to lead a mediocre supporting cast, I can see him trying so damn hard! But then his squad talk and it all goes terribly wrong. A horrific screenplay consisting of numerous plot details, no characterisation and a forced patriotic tone that comes across as cheesy. The amount of self-sacrificing and "I'm doing this alone" babble is enough to make those aliens retreat and find another planet to reap resources from. I feel nothing for this squad, they are just a means for shooting bullets at the enemy. I honestly didn't care who won, whether it was the dull humans of the blandly designed aliens. Any attempt of character development was forced and felt artificial. The narrative structure followed a simple iteration: blah blah, "we are marines, we are meant for this!", pew pew, "tell my wife I love her!", explosion...and it repeats those steps for the entire two hour runtime. I guess the drone ships were interesting atleast, and who would've thought that Ne-Yo would be one of the better actors! Yet the unmemorable action sequences were plagued with constant zoom ins, shaky cam and quick cuts to which I could not see anything amid the chaos. The whole film is just so loud that I became immune! Battle: Los Boredom more like.

reckittspawn This is the worst movie I have ever seen in my life. And it been 7 years since I suffered through this atrocity in theatres and to this day I still ain't seen nothing worse than this garbage, and there have been a lot of awful movies this decade. The whole movie is stuff blowing up and muscle men cheering. It was like watching a video game play itself, except even your average video game has more plot than this. Nothing happened. Just stuff blowing up. You wanna watch stuff blow up, play some video games, so at least you can have the joy of making the stuff blow up.

darksyde-63508 A rag tag bunch of marines from different teams join together to battle the aliens who have invaded California to steal the water from our oceans. The whole alien invasion genre has gotten old waaay before this movie reared its head. From Independence Day and its sequel, to Cloverfield, to Pacific Rim, to Battleship and a million others, theyre all pretty much the same. Introduce characters, insert a few dysfunctional ones, eveeuthings fine until aliens invade *insert city here* . Battles and destruction ensue, insert a few heroic deaths, the sense of defeat for the human race, insert a inspirational speech, then one final stand for mankind that ends with the aliens defeated. Ehhh. It all gets to be quite boring