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Battle: Los Angeles

Year: 2011.
Genre: Action / Science Fiction.
Country: United States.
Length: 116 minutes.
Director: Jonathan Liebesman.
Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Rodriguez, Bridget Moynahan, Ramon Rodriguez, Cory Hardrict, Ne-Yo, Jim Parrack, Michael Peña.

"For years, cases of UFO sightings have been recorded around the world (Buenos Aires, Seoul, France, Germany, China, etc). But in 2011, which were only sightings will become a terrible reality, when Earth is attacked by unknown forces.
While people around the world see how fall the world's greatest cities, Los Angeles becomes the last stand of humanity. Everything depends on Marine Sergeant Michael Nantz and his team to put a limit and engage the enemy more unusual to have ever faced. "

may Battle: Los Angeles have wanted to be great, a brilliant cross between Independence Day and Fall Black Hawk, he lacked potential, but the big (and only) point to discuss is a script that forces a lot of the credibility of the plot, because, technically, is a superlative example of how to make a good entertaining film pochoclera.

For starters, Battle not take long to get down to business. In the first fifteen minutes it begins to take shape this alien invasion while the faces in the cast begin to march, more or less with the clichés inherent in any war movie. There are tasteless jokes, and we should not seek greater sense of these archetypal soldiers (except, of course, our protagonist, Sergeant) who come more filling than anything else ...

Sooner or later, these soldiers will see them face to face with the enemy, which is terrible, powerful and relentless, and from that moment, the action does not stop a second to come to the end.

In one of his most convoluted to date, the director Jonathan Liebesman (led the Darkness Falls interesting and entertaining and bloody prequel The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning ) we immerses himself in the middle of the battlefield, a Los Angeles completely destroyed (and very well planned from the set design) mobilized with cameras that we saw in Cloverfield : in almost no time the watchful eye stops and joins the Pops and vicissitudes of this squad of Marines, resulting in more than a dizzy spell on the audience. I think he was out of hand, but portrays in vivid hues that must mean being in the middle of the hurricane in a war. This view gives you an amazing truth ...

The cast, led by a powerful and excellent Aaron Eckhart followed by a minimal but effective Michelle Rodriguez (born for these roles) makes a very correct with the available material, I thought that some faces cast would last longer, but in truth there are so many characters who survive in the end only the most unexpected and are renowned.

If there is something you can not fight is a script marked by cliches of the genre, and more than a phrase that seems to lie, you sound very plastic, but it seems that there was no how to get them out of the script. One or more polished and the result had been different, because visually, the film is spectacular and not expect anything less of her in that aspect after the amazing progress ...

A separate point and deserves soundtrack of Brian Tyler, who once again, he loves to play with fireworks and music sound plays another role in the film.

Battle: Los Angeles is an entertaining stop action film with great visual effects, good performances, but a pretty poor script and bordering on the cloyingly patriotic fact that may alienate the masses, but will entertain the avid action movie and science fiction.

Grade: B