Battle-Los Angeles (2011)

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"...a consistent depiction of military performance, duty and sacrifice that is so unexpected that the film's genre transforms from fantasy to war movie.  Armond White, New York Press
"This is what a grunt's-eye-view of alien invasion looks like.  Ty Burr, Boston Globe

Editor's Note A Marine platoon fights to prevent the city of Los Angeles from being overtaken by a race of highly advanced alien invaders in this epic sci-fi action thriller from director Jonathan Liebesman (THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE: THE BEGINNING) and producer Neal H. Moritz (I AM LEGEND, FAST & FURIOUS). After decades of speculation about life on other planets, the people of Earth discover that extraterrestrials really do exist when destruction rains down from the stars on cities all across the globe. When the alien warships descend upon Los Angeles, however, the ferocious invaders discover that humankind won't go down without a fight as a gruff Marine staff sergeant (Aaron Eckhart) and his fearless troop of jarheads point their weapons skyward and make one last stand for the entire human race.

	Will Rothaar
	Cory Hardrict
	Ramon Rodriguez
	Aaron Eckhart
	E. Roger Mitchell - Co-Star
	Michael Pena - Co-Star
	Rus Blackwell - Co-Star
	Bridget Moynahan - Co-Star
	Michelle Rodriguez - Co-Star
	Noel Fisher - Co-Star
	Ne-Yo - Co-Star
	Jim Parrack - Co-Star
	Bryce Cass - Co-Star
	Brandi Coleman - Co-Star
	Adetokumboh M'Cormack - Co-Star
	Joey King - Co-Star
	James Liao - Co-Star
	Susie Abromeit - Co-Star
	Stacey Turner - Co-Star
	Jadin Gould - Co-Star
	Joe Chrest - Co-Star
	Gino Anthony Pesi - Co-Star
	Jessica Heap - Co-Star
	Kenneth Brown Jr. - Co-Star
	Chris Lena Clark - Co-Star
	Jamie Norwood - Co-Star
	Todd Cochran - Co-Star
	Nzinga Blake - Co-Star
	Taryn Southern - Co-Star
	Elizabeth Keener - Co-Star
	Taylor Handley - Co-Star
	Tom Hillmann - Co-Star
	Neil Brown Jr. - Co-Star
	Lucas Till - Co-Star
	Jim Dever - Co-Star
	Robert Kensinger - Set Decorator
	Stan Parks - Special Effects Supervisor
	J. Michael Haynie - Assistant Director
	Scott Thaler - Assistant Director
	Cinesite - Visual Effects Designer
	Paul Massey - Sound Re-Recording
	David Giammarco - Sound Re-Recording
	Brian Tyler - Composer
	Joey Box - Stunt Coordinator
	Terry P. Chapman - Special Effects
	Albert Delgado - Special Effects
	Dale Ettema - Special Effects
	David Poole - Special Effects
	Intelligent Creatures - Visual Effects Designer
	Don Myers - Special Effects
	Modern Videofilm Incorporated - Visual Effects Designer
	Joel Sevilla - Animation Supervisor
	Lukas Ettlin - Director of Photography
	Spin - Visual Effects Designer
	Jeremy Butler - Animation Supervisor
	Chris Bertolini - Screenwriter
	The Embassy Visual Effects - Visual Effects Designer
	Hy*drau"lx - Visual Effects Designer
	Courtney Lether - Makeup
	Shade VFX - Visual Effects Designer
	Tommy Harper - Production Manager/UPM
	Thomas Valentine - Supervising Art Director
	Donna Chance - Costumes
	Lorenzo Hearns Jr. - Costumes
	Steve Buscaino - Makeup
	Kim Ayers - Makeup Designer
	Jules Holdren - Hairstylist
	David Jensen - Co-Star
	Jonathan Liebesman - Director

Total Film
3 stars out of 5 -- "Locked and loaded with explosions, fire-fights and close quarters combat, Jonathan Liebesman's film has a full clip of eye-singeing, ear-battering mayhem that should sate sci-fi junkies..." 06/01/2011

San Francisco Chronicle 8 of 10
"Battle: Los Angeles" takes a big "what would happen if" premise - in this case, a massive alien invasion - and then fulfills that premise by taking it seriously. Not self-seriously. The movie is lots of fun, but it stays true to the terms it establishes, telling the story through the eyes of one Marine platoon assigned to rescue civilians in Santa Monica...In this way, we see the aliens only as the guys see them - first, in just brief glimpses, then later, in intimate and grotesque detail. We get acclimated to battle. And the whole time we feel the anxiety of knowing we're only getting a piece of the story, that other battles are waging, on the East Coast, in Paris, in London, in Japan, and that victory seems almost inconceivable..."Battle: Los Angeles" is not in the big-picture, crowd-pleasing tradition of "Independence Day." Think of it as "The Hurt Locker" of alien invasion movies...Essential to the movie's success is Aaron Eckhart, who plays a Marine staff sergeant as though he were in a World War II movie: no camping it up, no comedy, no winking at the audience, no smiling. He's just a tough guy, with lots of emotional scars, who is very good at his job. Eckhart's commitment to the movie's reality, which is as fierce as the sergeant's commitment to his men, takes what otherwise might merely have been outlandish and makes it believable, and frightening...Christopher Bertolini's screenplay isn't big on witty repartee, but he takes time to introduce each character, and throughout Bertolini and director Jonathan Liebesman find ways to define every phase of the catastrophe in human terms. No shortcuts were taken in the crafting of the story...The battle in "Battle: Los Angeles" is grab-the-armrest tense until the last seconds. - Mick LaSalle