nofb
Either the cameraman crew all had Parkinon's disease, or the director is really bad. I quit watching this movie after 5 minutes, so bad was the shacking and unprofessional the shooting.The scenario wasn't promising either, the first scenes are badly introduced, I actually thought I had missed the beginning, or mistakenly selected the trailer.To avoid
divinyllspam
There are quite a few flaws in this movie, but all in all, it's really enjoyable.
The characters are at least relatable and you can feel the impact when someone dies. It focused on showing more grit and chaos then a lot of movies like it. It doesn't feel over done with spectacle and explosions. I liked it. Fun to watch.
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.
AD
