Travolta, it seems, had wanted to star in a film of Battlefield Earth since first reading the novel in 1982. Only the all-seeing L Ron knows why.
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01/26/06
Battlefield Earth (2000)
3 %
Reviews Counted: 116 Fresh: 3 Rotten:113 Average Rating: 2.3/10
Consensus:
There are few, if any, redeeming qualities for Battlefield Earth. Critics are singing a near-unanimous rotten song.
Runtime: 1 hr 57 mins
Synopsis: In the year 3000, there are no countries, no cities... Earth is a wasteland. And man is an endangered species. A millennium ago, vicious Psychlo aliens swept down from the skies and wiped out Earth’s entire defense force in nine minutes. Now, the handfuls of surviving humans are either used... [More]
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Starring: John Travolta, Barry Pepper, Forest Whitaker, Kim Coates, Sabine Karsenti
Director: Roger Christian
Screenwriter: Corey Mandell
Producer: Jonathan D. Krane, Elie Samaha, John Travolta
Composer: Elia Cmiral
Screenwriter: Corey Mandell
Producer: Jonathan D. Krane, Elie Samaha, John Travolta
Composer: Elia Cmiral
Reviews
Top Critic
It doesn't help that the film's premise, which sees stoneage cavemen turn into ace fighter pilots with only a week's training, is as naive as that of the 1939 serial Buck Rogers.
12/02/02
You never care about anyone as they give their lives to save humanity. Ho hum. That's the worst crime in this otherwise so-bad-it's-good mess.
12/10/01
A botched adventure that looks suspiciously like any number of other sci-fi tales you will have seen, and pales instantly by the comparison.
04/17/01
Top Critic Top Critic
The movie is so outrageously, spectacularly, unbelievably bad that we stare at it with some sort of appalled curiosity. It fails on so many levels that it's fascinating, although not so much that I'd sit through it again.
01/01/00
A folly so supreme that it occasionally inspires awe, in the sense that so many people spent so much time and money on it without ever realizing how awful it is.
07/23/07
This 117-minute adaptation of an 800-page SF adventure for teenagers seems like a miscalculation on multiple levels.
01/06/07
Watching Battlefield Earth is to a movie-watching experience what having a yeast infection is to having sex.
04/06/06
John Travolta will forever be haunted by this sci-fi travesty based on L. Ron Hubbard's novel.
10/25/04
If this is what we have to look forward to in the year 3000, count me out.
05/14/03
The sets are laughably cheap, and the aliens look like geeks from a Star Trek convention who couldn't afford to buy the "good" Klingon costumes
03/20/03
This film maintains a surprising consistency of bad acting and directing almost from the first frame to the last.
02/08/03
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