★★★
C’mon movie critics, lighten up!
Carlos and I decided to give this one a chance, resurrecting a years-long tradition of going to a brain-numbing movie on a Friday night. This is a perfect Friday Night Movie: it’s very capably done, rigorously follows a by-the-book plot structure, and uses cool special effects. Just what you want on a Friday night.
However, we couldn’t resist plugging in our brain to some extent, so we found out afterwards that we’d both spent part of our movie experience counting the movies this one cited: Black Hawk Down, Independence Day, War of the Worlds, Alien(s), Pearl Harbor (or any of the 60s war movies about cadres of male soldiers). If you can do it for Tarantino movies like Inglorious Bastards, why can’t you name-that-movie-citation for Battle: Los Angeles?
Anyway, I found nothing objectionable here at all; in fact, I liked it as entertainment. It was far better than Tron Legacy……
