First off, I want to let it be know to everyone that I fell under the great sway of media hooplah over this movie and was REALLY looking forward to seeing it. I never read the book or any of that, so my want, my NEED, to see this movie was really unwarrented. Also, I am a great big science fiction geek, and that was another reason I wanted to see this movie; in hopes of ridding myself of that horrible Phantom Menace aftertaste. Now on with the review...
|
As you can see from the title image above, this movie was all hyped up because John Travolta was in it. Oh, big focking deal. I guess some people will go see a movie because his jerky anus is in it, but I'm not one of them. Though I did find the thought of John "Dance Fever" Travolta in a sci-fi movie interesting, and the fact that he was a bad guy alien type was even more intreging.
The movie takes place in like, the year 3000 (I was waiting for that to start) and mankind is all but extinct because these alien guys came down and busted up the place, enslaving mankind (the aliens call us "Man-animals") and pretty much stinking up the place with their mining operation. See, they come to a planet and rape it of natural resources and then leave. In the process, they pretty much just make a big mess of things for whoever was on the planet before them.
|
Well, a couple of tribes of people still roam the land, and they are all pretty primitive like. Hunting with sticks and bows and the like, and wearing fur and sheeot. They have legends about the demons who came from the sky and of gods and a hero and all that typical primitive human stuff.
Well, this one guy leaves his home camp and goes off to find something, but he is captured by the demons that came from the
sky. The aliens take all the human slaves to some home base and set them off to work in the mines. The hero of the story though somehow manages to grab an alien gun and blast one of the bastitches dead. Then some funny stuff happens when John Travolta asks for proof that the "man-animal" can use a gun.
|
Well, the plot is pretty predictable from their: dudeman escapes, dudeman comes back, dudeman starts a revolt. You know the story. I mean, you saw Braveheart, right? Well, that's what this movie felt like the entire time. It was like watching Space Braveheart or some sheeot.
Well, as good as this movie could have been, it just wasn't. The acting was all good, but the characters were all bad. Forrest Whitaker was just too stupid to believe, John Travolta was too evil to believe, and Barry Pepper was just too Braveheart to stand. Like I said though, I hold nothing against the actors and actresses of this movie. It really could have been good, somebody just screwed it up somewhere.
Perhaps if they just made the movie longer, it would have been better. I never read the book, but I saw it and was going to buy it, and it was THICK. I mean, like IT or The Stand thick. Battlefield: Earth is one of those movies that has to be about 3 hours to get, or a mini-series. It was just bad. Not horrible, just bad in a mediocher kind of way.
Rating: 4 Travoltas in Predator wigs
Websites:
Official Site 1: http://www.battlefieldearth.net
Official Site 2: http://www.battlefieldearth.com
Know a good site about this movie, or one of the actors/actresses/directors/key grips/etc involved in it. Send me an e-mail at jarjarschmoke@hotmail.com
