Battle: Los Angeles

Movie: Battle: Los Angeles

Main Actors: Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Rodriguez and Bridget Moynahan

MPAA Rating: PG-13 (yeah right, I don’t know how this movie got that rating but it should have been R)

Passionate Expressions: Many of these, basically every combination.

Useless Vulgar Language: I don’t think so, the whole movie is basically constant combat.

Sex in a Good Light: No sex in this movie

Sex in a Bad Light: No sex in this movie

Manly Violence: Yes. The kind that you can only find in the US Military

Action Violence: Nope, it was all manly

Pointless Violence: Again, nope.

Manly Rating: A+

Scorecard
Cinematography: A
Visual Effects: A
Sound/Score: A
Story: A+
Acting: A+

Food to Watch With: You’ve already eaten, get back to work.

Plot Synopsis: A platoon of Marines attempts to rescue some civilians when aliens attack earth, presumably for our water.

Review: Best movie of the Year and certainly one of the best movies ever. During this movie I tried to hide in my chair, I stood and cheered, I bawled like a little girl and I tried to fist bump the people around me many times (a few bumped back). There have been a lot of military movies in the past few decades. Most of them were very degrading to the military, made by people who didn’t have a clue how the military acts and thinks, or they focused in on the .01% of bad eggs that are in the ranks. Some movies spent the time to make the movies technically and tactically proficient and were nice enough to show them as good guys like Black Hawk Down, Saving Private Ryan and Tears of the Sun. But this movie actually, I would say, for the first time, did the military justice by giving it 100%. Not only did they attempt to give them tactics (which is hard considering it is an alien invasion movie) but they got the Military right. They did their homework and found out how these guys are 99.9% of the time, how they are dedicated and how they are patriotic and how much they care about each other and how much they are like everyday ordinary Americans. I usually only read critic reviews before I go into a movie then read everyone’s review when I come out and at first I was amazed by how much the critics hated this movie in the reviews. I figured that it was just going to be another Skyline, a so-so movie and I was not expecting much. Boy were I and they wrong. I think they don’t like it because they hate America and they like to see the good guys as the bad guys. Usually they can hide that but this movie was too blatant for them to ignore. I will say this movie is intense and not for the squeamish, it was non-stop, start to finish. I’m not going to say too much about the movie’s plot, I really want you to experience it for yourself.

Life Lessons: America’s military is not Full Metal Jacket, it is Battle: Los Angeles

Summary: AWESOME

Would I Watch This Again: My only fear about watching it again is that it might get me to rejoin the military