After a meteor shower around the world, the governments learn that it is actually an alien invasion and organize counter-attacks. In Los Angeles, the Marine Sergeant Michael Nantz is ready to retire after a great trauma in the past when he lost all the men under his command in a mission. However, his platoon is assigned to bring the civilians that are sheltered in the Police Department, in an area dominated by the aliens, back to forward operating base (F.O.B.) before the bombs drop on the city. Sgt. Nantz assists 2nd Lieutenant William Martinez and they have to accomplish their mission within three hours. The marines meet few civilians and survivors from other commandos and when they are ready to fly to the base, the helicopter with the wounded marines is shot down and crashes. Now the marines need to reach the base with the civilians through the destroyed streets and highways using a bus. Along their journey, the marines learn how to kill the invaders but only a few of them survive. When the mission is accomplished, Sgt. Nantz and the survivors decide to destroy the alien communication center and consequently their airborne force.
A squad of U.S. Marines becomes the last line of defense against a global invasion.
Presenting an alien invasion in cinema verite style - on-the-ground, follow-the-character, documentary-esque camera action and very little in the way of sweeping shots, Battle: LA is a genuinely fun, very action-packed, even slightly realistic view that the world is really, actually getting attacked by pretty darn advanced aliens. Whereas Independence Day was more a self-conscious super-huge blockbuster-type alien invasion film, Battle: LA attempts to give it a slightly more realistic bent with real (movie-real, anyway) Marines getting to the dirty work of finding out what it really means to fight alien nasties.<br/><br/>Aaron Eckhart&#39;s Staff Sergeant Nantz is the center of this movie. Not so much brooding, more thoughtful, at the end of a long career as a rank-and-file staff sergeant. He wants to retire because of the doubt surrounding his last tour in Afghanistan where 2 of his men were killed. He&#39;s basically done with the bullets, the blood, the guts.<br/><br/>Just as he&#39;s getting ready to bounce out of the service he&#39;s called up to lead a platoon on a rescue mission of civilians trapped in a police station in West L.A.. The aliens are attacking the coastlines, starting in major cities, attempting to cut off communication with other major cities, forcing us poor earthlings to the interior.<br/><br/>Working their way toward the station, they quickly learn what they&#39;re up against - sophisticated cyborg-eseque aliens with guns physically attached to their bodies. Several troops are almost immediately taken out. And, just when they think the aliens have no air power, they discover they do indeed have drones that track humans by radio signal. It goes from bad to worse, quick. The forces all along the coast of not just L.A., but every major city they&#39;ve attacked, seem almost powerless to stop the onslaught.<br/><br/>We learn that Nantz follows the Marine&#39;s code to the end: Retreat, Hell (short for &quot;Retreat, hell, I just got here!&quot;). Never give up, never give in, never leave a man behind. He persists, doggedly, and adapts to the alien&#39;s method of fighting. He learns how to kill them, on-the-fly battlefield techniques to take out the drones and the alien infantry. It&#39;s tough fighting. Some make the ultimate sacrifice to win. Eckhart&#39;s Nantz sets an example that his men follow, even those who doubt him.<br/><br/>Battle: LA is a movie you would have thought had a larger audience and might have been more of a &quot;blockbuster&quot; type film, but it seems these days that Hollywood is inundating us with blockbusters. Movies like this - ones without big budgets a la &quot;The Green Lantern&quot; or &quot;Cars 2&quot; - get lost in the shuffle. Doesn&#39;t mean they aren&#39;t entertaining or fun or enjoyable to watch. They are. Battle: LA is.<br/><br/>All in all very enjoyable, action-packed, and good alien fun.
Warning: Spoilers<br/><br/>It&#39;s not even bad enough to watch as a joke, like The Core.<br/><br/>Typically, I&#39;ll hear about a movie, and if it sounds even slightly interesting, I&#39;ll intentionally avoid reading anything about it, watching any previews, reading reviews, or suggestions, or anything. I want to go into the movie unspoiled.<br/><br/>This was a stupid, stupid thing to do with this movie. If I had listened, I would have heard the warnings.<br/><br/>The movie opens with…some characters. We see Aaron Eckhart jogging on the beach, and &quot;STAFF SERGEANT!&quot; is repeated the first 100 out of 100,000 times that it&#39;s used. We watch &quot;STAFF SERGEANT!&quot; drive his perfectly restored vintage mustang onto the base, and walk into his bosses office where we find out that this is his last day.<br/><br/>Except, no it isn&#39;t, STAFF SERGEANT! we need you to come back for One Last Mission™. <br/><br/>The next hour or so is of this disaster is spent watching a group of supposedly hyper-advanced alien life forms completely fail at &quot;an extermination&quot;. Have these aliens never heard of chemical or biological weapons? No? Okay, then. I guess they&#39;ll spend a few years aimlessly wandering around shooting bullets at things until the human race goes away. <br/><br/>SPOILER: A veterinarian finds out the secret weakness of the aliens: shoot them in the chest.<br/><br/>I think some of the characters died at this point, but I&#39;m not really sure. It&#39;s not like you&#39;ll care either.<br/><br/>The film&#39;s crowning moment is when the alien invasion is thwarted by shining a movie projector with a laser pointer on it at the *big* alien ship, and then this piece of information (shoot the really big ship) is treated as some sort of magical knowledge on how to defeat them.<br/><br/>&quot;What? Attack their huge base? We never thought of that!&quot;<br/><br/>And then the Aliens, who are capable on interstellar travel, give up after a few of their ships are shot out of…the ground. Which is where they somehow magically exist.
It really is just sensory bombardment, and in two dimensions you have even less of a grasp of what's happening and of what you're looking at than the poor bastards on-screen.
Nantz, Imlay, Lockett, Harris, Adukwu and Santos are the only survivors.
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