Battlefield
Earth Movie Review:
Pulp
Fiction resurrected John Travolta's career is Battlefield
Earth the one that sends it to the pavement again?
Battlefield
Earth is based on the first novel in the very very long
series by L. Ron Hubbard . Now as most of you probably know
L. Ron Hubbard is the guy who invented Scientology. Guess
which religion Travolta is a devotee of? Yup, you're right,
Scientology.
Personally
I'm a Christian myself but that doesn't mean I want to make
a movie about Christ.
Where
do I start about telling you how woeful this movie is. I
know let's start with the story. Aliens take over the earth
to strip it of its natural resources (have we any natural
resources left already ?) and they keep some humans alive
as slaves.
But
like are the Aliens stupid or what, Travolta who plays Perl
one of the aliens decides to educate one of them. Guess
what happens next?
Yes
the human rebels and starts to lead a revolution against
the aliens. Now as the rest of the humans are little more
than savages at this stage, so why is it possible for them
to suddenly gain the ability to fly jump jets without more
than a couple of weeks training? I would have thought it
would have taken two weeks to get them to learn to speak
again, let alone something most of us now couldn't do?
That
absurdity is what sums the movie up really as everything
else is just movie cliche after cliche.
If
a movie had been made of this when the books had first came
out then most of us would have accepted it as a jolly good
old romp. But nowadays I would like to think audiences are
a bit more sophisticated than that.
Gary
Gray
Site
Contents Copyright© The Z Review, unless used with permission.This
site has no intention to infringe on the rights of the film
owners of Battlefield Earth and intellectual copyright holders of the
movies mentioned herein & hold copyright over the movie,
characters, merchandise & storyline.