Battle: Los Angeles (6/10)

There's no denying the action-packed, visual entertainment that was this hugely budgeted behemoth. Though I wished some things were different to make this an all-rounder.

From the beginning to the end, it was all-out action; save for a few emotional fillers here and there. The visuals as mentioned were truly stunning, especially those explosions in the sky creating rings, like the one in the movie poster here.

As an action movie, no doubt a perfect entertainer.

But the big jarring mistake here were the aliens. And this has taken a lot of the fun out of the movie.

The aliens were just as vulnerable as humans. They weren't as mysterious or as terrifying in any way, not even the weapons that they used were any more powerful than normal guns. And since they were just as vulnerable, why did the marines led by Aaron Eckhart's character bother looking for their weak spot when they were already weak?

But OK, fine, if they have to be vulnerable then I can overlook that. However, we are talking about an alien that has just invaded Earth with their spacecrafts and machinery. Surely, they would be more advanced technologically than humans. And we saw that in their aircraft where they were almost like Transformers, able to join together to form a bigger ship. But we were only briefly introduced to that and nothing more.

And the worst part was, (do skip this paragraph as it contains spoiler) at the end, it only took one lousy missile to destroy a ship that was probably the size of a skyscraper. Now a few stupid issues were presented here. As mentioned, this ship just invaded Earth from who-knows-where. How was it that one lousy missile can destroy the entire machinery that came from a technologically more advanced alien form? Moreover, it was humongous and physically intimidating. How did one lousy missile destroy the whole thing on impact? Lastly, this was something that was significantly important in combat, and the aliens were so stupid to not build it with a tougher hide?

Seriously, what were the producers and writer thinking?

Other scenes I could have done without included the beginning when it restarted from 24 hours before invasion. The opening scene was already great. Why not carry it on from there? Like how Saving Private Ryan was. Another was when the story-tellers tried to humanize the story by killing off Michael Pena's character. That to me was totally unnecessary and useless. What it achieved was only to bore the audience.

And is anyone else tired of seeing Michelle Rodriguez in these exact same roles? Do something else already. There was only one scene where I agreed with her, and that was when she said, "I can't believe that worked." I, too, couldn't believe that stupid missile worked.