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.
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12/02/02
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
Just too absurd to pay full price to see in a theater.
10/11/02
It's as if Travolta wanted to destroy his career again just to see if he could stage another comeback.
06/18/02
finds (Travolta) wobbling around in the highest platform shoes since Elton John and sporting bizarre dreadlocks... the oddest vanity production imaginable, one in which the main attraction is nearly impossible to recognize.
06/10/02
Utterly inane and innocuous in the most harmless, uninteresting way -- the fruit of an overrated star’s overblown ego, recklessly indulged by studio excess.
06/05/02
O diretor Roger Christian acredita que 'ter estilo' é simplesmente inclinar sua câmera o tempo todo.
05/31/02
No, it doesn’t rise to the appalling heights of awfulness of such legendary mega-bombs as Ishtar or Burn Hollywood Burn. It hasn’t the wit.
05/08/02
The miscued camp and underachieving action merely unload it as a bombastic concoction.
03/24/02
[It looks like] Klingons having a bad hair day.
03/19/02
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
This isn't a movie, it's a crime against celluloid. You don't so much watch it as stare at it in gape-jawed disbelief.
10/24/01
Every bit as bad as its reputation implies.
10/10/01
Clearly, at no point did anyone say, "Man, this is a steaming pile of hangover dung - why don't we fix it?"
06/14/01
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
I haven't seen such a laughably incompetent summer movie since summer movies became summer movies some 25 years ago, and that's saying a pantload.
04/17/01
So depressing that you can't even relish just how awful it really is.
04/17/01
Legions of science-fiction fans will feel compelled to approach the ticket booth and scream for a refund.
04/02/01
Travolta's performance isn't even bad enough to be campy; it's just bad.
02/27/01
The end result is a high-budget star vehicle with big special effects that looks in every other way like any one of over a hundred other nameless low-budget post-Apocalyptic science fiction movies that have been made in the last 30 years or so.
01/01/01
The first few moments of the film evoke heroism and noble struggle. After that, it's Grade A drivel.
01/01/00
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