Battlefield Earth (2000)
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Reviews Counted:121
Fresh:3
Rotten:118
Average Rating:2.3/10
Consensus: Ugly, campy, and poorly acted, Battlefield Earth is a stunningly misguided, aggressively bad sci-fi folly.
Runtime: 1 hr 57 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
US Box Office: $0
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... [More]
Starring: John Travolta, Barry Pepper, Forest Whitaker, Kim Coates
Director: Roger Christian
Reviews for Battlefield Earth
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The story is quite weak, with the pace all over the place. Full Review |
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Made with the misguided passion only true believers can muster, this adaptation of L. Ron Hubbard’s novel can only (kindly) be described as a monumental folly. Full Review |
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0.5/4 |
There's really only one way to summarize my sheer hatred for what is possibly one of the worst movies I've ever seen. And it's through a list. Full Review |
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F |
"Battlefield Earth," based on a crappy 1982 sci-fi novel by cult religion dips#*t L. Ron Hubbard, is so inept and pathetic that it should forever end any questions about the validity of Hubbard's manufactured religion of Scientology. Full Review |
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Pretty much the Showgirls of sci-fi shoot-'em-ups. Full Review |
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Click to read the article Full Review |
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1/5 |
If you are looking for something to hate and despise, get thee to this movie. Full Review |
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1/5 |
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. Full Review |
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This 117-minute adaptation of an 800-page SF adventure for teenagers seems like a miscalculation on multiple levels. Full Review |
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Watching Battlefield Earth is to a movie-watching experience what having a yeast infection is to having sex. Full Review |
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0/5 |
Place it next to The Omega Code and The Omega Code shines. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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F |
John Travolta will forever be haunted by this sci-fi travesty based on L. Ron Hubbard's novel.
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0/4 |
Blame this mess on Travolta. Full Review |
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Robin did not review "Battlefield Earth" Full Review |
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D- |
Scientologist or not, this is as inane as summer blockbusters get. Full Review |
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2/4 |
If this is what we have to look forward to in the year 3000, count me out. Full Review |
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0/5 |
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 Full Review |
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1.5/5 |
This film maintains a surprising consistency of bad acting and directing almost from the first frame to the last. Full Review |
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0.5/5 |
AAAAAAAAGHHHH! MY EYES! IT BURNS! IT BURNS! Full Review |
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