Quick review: Starring Aaron Eckhart and Michelle Rodriguez, Battle: Los Angeles can best be described as a standard B movie about an alien invasion in Los Angeles. If you watch the advertisements, it's basically what you expect it to be. Ist special effects are convincing, but kept at a distance. The action feels like something out of a Call of Duty game. It's one of those movies that has a love affair with the armed forces, showing the heroism of average marines in a time of crisis. Because they're marines and not a group of superheroes like the Avengers, this was never going to be a blockbuster, but it is a pleasure to see a somewhat small film revel in the tropes of the U.S. military, and find fascination in its inner mechanics. For some people, this is their kind of movie, and they enjoy watching marines doing their thing. It's its own genre. Really, I have no idea how realistic this movie is, but as an average viewer, I feel as if the marines are pretty true to life and lack any element of fantasy. Obviously, the situation that they're put up against is pure science fiction, but the marines themselves don't feel like they're imagined.
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