the audience applauded

Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

An unexpected masterpiece

Finally getting round to watching this...I mean... As war movies go, it's not bad... The acting is good (even if the script is not), the action is there... It's really just a war movie with aliens, which is not what I was hoping for...But, there's no character development really... Lots of deaths... I mean, I wondered what happened to the dog at the beginning more than I cared about any of the characters really except the little kid...And the plot and logic does have some problems, like the whole "they have no air force" thing when they literally flew to the planet in the first place... It took a while to find out the reason the aliens attacked too - there's no way of guessing until it's explicitly stated (like foreshadowing or anything like that)... It's also very heavily "marines are the best thing", which I have issues with too...In terms of technical review, it's camera work is shaky, which is difficult to follow. I see what they're trying to do to make it gritty and so on, but it is a little distracting. The random zoom ins on people's faces is also odd (like in the scene where they're re-strategising after the bus blew up, and they're leaning over the guy who was shot and just... Zooms...)That being said, the background music is pretty amazing, and carries the majority of the emotion of the film.

Action packed and well acted. When does the sequel come out???

Title sums up the review. I saw this in theatres when it came out. I felt like I was watching a video game being played for 2 hours. At the time it was the worst movie I'd ever seen. Then 7 years later they managed to make a worse movie called Red Sparrow which makes Battle Los Angeles look decent by comparison.

It's black hawk down with aliens. Very entertaining, I wish they made more sequels. I had so much fun watching.