hot-diggity damn! wow that was intense.... finally i managed to get excited enough about a movie to write it up haha. Anyway, after being away too long from my movie/tv outlet of emotions..i thought i'd better get back to sharing all that i've been uploading to my mental servers. (still not yet a regular cinema-goer but i do what i can to watch good quality shows streaming online.. Vive le piracy!)
Battle: LA makes no effort to hide that this is an all out dogfight. and right from the get go it's a tactical display of planning and execution of a battle, fought against alien invaders (of course) set in the streets of LA (of course), with the humans almost pushed back to brink of defeat before making a superb comeback to survive against all odds (heck yeah!) of course with the standard emotional moments, human drama and humorous exchange in critical moments to smoothly progress to finale of euphoria and relief all rolled into one.
Standard story right, same as ID4 and any other alien invasion movie, except this was more Black Hawk Down meets District 9 (though that was exceptional) and i loved this more!! i know it received a lot of flak (pun intended) from a lot of box office critics et all, but who cares. Like i always try to tell myself and all those who accidentally tuned into this blog... watch it yourself and judge it for yourself.
Eckhart perfectly portrays a Staff Seargent battling inner daemons to lead his raggity band of troops to save the civillians and beat the baddie. Some folks said the characters were not properly developed... but come on it's a battle! who cares.
Verdict : HECK YEAH!! i'd so watch it a few more times.
