Battlefield Earth Critic Reviews
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Is it worth seeing once? Sure.Read the full review
So heavy and lifeless that you keep waiting for those three little front-row kibitzers from "Mystery Science Theatre 3000" to appear at the bottom of the screen to start goofing on it.Read the full review
The script, based on a novel by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, is deeply dumb, depressingly derivative (ripping off "Planet of the Apes" the most) and just plain nonsense.Read the full review
Just a lumbering, poorly photographed piece of derivative sci-fi drivel, full of grunting extras scampering around in animal pelts and more dank, trash-strewn sets than I ever care to see again.Read the full review
Yet the overall look, though derivative ("The Matrix," "Blade Runner," "Waterworld," etc.), rates as Battlefield's one non-guilty pleasure.Read the full review
Awful in so many different ways.Read the full review
Let's cut to the chase: We're talking "Ishtar of the Apes."Read the full review
It may be a bit early to make such judgments, but Battlefield Earth may well turn out to be the worst movie of this century.Read the full review
Compounded by a dated visual style, patched-together special effects and ludicrous dialogue, Battlefield Earth is a wholly miserable experience.Read the full review
A million monkeys with a million crayons would be hard-pressed in a million years to create anything as cretinous as Battlefield Earth.Read the full review
