Battlefield Earth

Greetings, I've decided to bring the angry viking into blog format, and what better and more fitting movie than Battlefield Earth could be used as the first post?

Starring the well known John Travolta and Forest Whitaker as psychlos, and Barry Pepper as mandkinds last great hope, this movie is set in the year 3000. We're told this in a brief intro text, which saves a lot of time instead of actually showing us some action as earth was invaded. Mankind has regressed back into stone age, and our hero goes out on a quest, but ends up getting captured by the evil psychlos.
Notice that clever word play? Psychlos - psychos? The psychlos are a mix of Predators and the evil aliens from Stargate in size, only with human heads and dreadlocks. And they can't breathe any air here, so they have to wear a noseclip. And they ofcourse speak an alien language, which sounds exactly like english except they sound like they are constipated.


Here's where John Travolta and Forest Whitaker comes into the action. John Travolta is the head of the security at the "dome" they are in, and Forest Whitaker is his sidekick. Travolta's character apparantly graduated head of his class, and gets mighty pissed off when he's forced to stay on earth, so he decides to do some embezzeling....

Without revealing too much of the great plot, I can assure you that you will see "tense" chases, "epic" fights, "great" explosions and "unfair" cruelty. All that and cavemen flying harrier jets with only hours(if that) of training.
As an added bonus, they decided to ting the colour of the movie to dark blue, so if you love that colour, this is right up your alley. For everyone else however it just looks as ridiculous as it's terrible acting, editing and directing is.

The movie is nearly 2 hours long, but due to the effects of the editing and directing, it seems like atleast 4. I've not read the Ron Hubbard novel, but surely it must have had more plot than this dreadful thing. And I expect the novel to be a disaster.

There's close to no saving graces for this movie. It bombed at the box office, and everyone hates it. I can understand why Travolta was in it, but how on earth Forest Whitaker got lured into this I will never know.

The movie was directed by Roger Christian, the man behind Nostradamus, Final cut and masterminds, all of which I have never heard of it. And surprisingly enough he is still directing, with his latest movie "prisoners of the sun" in post production as this is written.

Rating(out of 10):

Trailer for this disaster