Battlefield Earth DVD

Advantages: basic premise is okay
Disadvantages: bad acting, too long and dull

77. Battlefield Earth (2000) With the upcoming third worldwide protest against the cult of scientology's abuses this weekend, it seems timely to review Battlefield Earth. Adapted from a novel by L Ron Hubbard, and championed by actor John Travolta for over a decade. It rapidly gained the infamous status of one of the most expensive flops in cinema history, and you need only look at my rating to see whether I agree. This film should carry a public ...
...No. And neither should you. Battlefield Earth is full of holes, it's overblown, too long, too camp, and Barry Pepper is an especially uncharasmatic lead actor. It's a B-movie that somehow walked off the lot with an A-movie budget, and Hollywood has been churning out much better films for a tenth of the cost. The few superficial achievements can't outweigh the mess of a script and over the top direction and editing. Between the bad guys chuckling ... Read review

Advantages: None
Disadvantages: Too many to list here

...21st century audience. Alas, Battlefield Earth fails miserably on both counts. Based on a well-known novel with the same name, Battlefield Earth is 21st century film-making at its worst. A flimsy, almost non-existent plot, coupled with uninteresting characters could never be redeemed with a deluge of special effects – but then the film makers don’t seem to have tried to do even this – the effects are mediocre at best. The film ...
...seen as a sought-after commodity. Battlefield Earth looks as though it was filmed almost entirely in an old quarry – using subtle colour filters to suggest something has happened to the air simply isn’t enough to provide a convincing back drop. In true American style, this is a film about one man’s courage inspiring a ragged group of survivors to over throw their evil captors – oh please. It’s not so much the cliches ... Read review

Advantages: Fantastic action scenes, some great special effects and brilliant sound work
Disadvantages: Pretty much everything else, including Travolta's horrific acting and the miserable plotline

...killed off in the film Battlefield Earth. I really should've seen it coming. The creator of quite possibly the most ridiculous cult of the last couple centuries has spawned a movie that is quite possibly the most ridiculous movie of the last couple years. L. Ron Hubbard's Battlefield Earth is a movie that has some excellent action scenes, and some really RIPPING battle scenes, but some of the most godawful logic lapses I've seen to date. It is ...
...is. Some of them are fairly minor, but many of them are totally inexcusable. For instance, these "man-animals," which are really precious little more than advanced primates, learn how to pilot Harrier planes in under seven days. While they're at it, they also learn how to operate machine guns, SAM launchers, and nuclear devices in that same week. Which would be a feat for us normal humans, but it's especially ludicrous for these dirt people, who ... Read review

Advantages: Not bad special effects. Barry Pepper's acting wasn't too bad.
Disadvantages: Lack of credibility.

I only watched this movie because my husband thought it would be fun to see a universally slated movie. My first impression - this is sooooo terrible. The only sci-fi movie more ridiculous than this movie is Dark Star and that was meant to be ridiculous. This looked like it was supposed to be taking itself seriously. While, the plot should have been fine, they turned the script into a masterpiece of disbelievability. The Basic Premise It's the ...
...are used by the cruel alien race of Psychlos who treat them as animals, believing them to be less intelligent than dogs. Terl (John Travolta) runs the planet, using the 'man-animals' as slaves. Tyler(Barry Pepper - Enemy of the State) leaves his mountain home and is captured by the Psychlos and put to work. Terl, seeing that he displays intelligence that far exceeds their expectation, decides to teach him the Psychlos' language and knowledge using ... Read review

Advantages: Hmm... tough one
Disadvantages: Script, acting, special effects, camerawork, direction...

Battlefield Earth, the $73 million project led by John Travolta, won 7 out of a possible 9 Golden Raspberry awards, including worst film, worst actor, worst director, worst script and worst supporting actor. It's based on some cult science fiction novel which is apparently very very long, so I can only imagine that all the good have been missed out in the adaptation process. I'll give you a brief summary of the plot, which is pretty brief anyway. ...
...some evil aliens called Psychlos (yep, great name there) and gets taken to a prison camp and made to work for the Psychlos, who are mining the Earth of all its minerals etc. However, when he learns how to speak the Psychlo language and learns about how they work, he hatches a plan to overthrow the Psychlos and, incidentally, blow up their planet, with the help of all the other human slaves. As you do. However, do not be fooled by the mediocre story, ... Read review