Battle Los Angeles!
Aliens attack! Bullets start whizzing and pinging by. Both sides suffer casualties throughout all the skirmishes and firefights in Battle: Los Angeles. It’s complete chaos of the most entertaining order. Think Saving Private Ryan or Black Hawk Down or War of the Worlds and Independence Day and consider how the action was shot – hand held, fast edits and a real sense of authenticity – and replace the opposing force with aliens.
It’s kind of awesome from a purely action perspective. The action is the crux of the film, depending on it to carry the film to the end. That usually doesn’t bode well for any movie, but it kind of, by some miracle, works here.
