Battle: Los Angeles - 2011

I don't know what they were thinking when they made this. First of all, it's apparently based off the Rage Against The Machine album of the same name, while also showing what Harvey Dent did before becoming DA of Gotham City. How confusing can it be? Here's an idea, stick with one thing to adapt into a film! That's it's first problem, it doesn't seem confident enough in simply adapting the Rage album into a film but also has to tie into the Dark Knight too just in case Rage fans won't fill all the theaters seats they'll get the Batman buffs in as well.

Speaking of Batman, if Harvey Dent was here, where was he? Was this supposed to be before even Batman Begins? They aren't too clear on anything. 

As far as how they did adapting the rap rock album into a feature, I'm not convinced they did anything but look at the album's title and scan maybe the CD artwork and track listing. Where did they get the aliens from? They didn't mind taking so many liberties with the source material, I think that maybe they ended up taking too many! Who the heck was in charge of this thing???

There were plenty of explosions in this film and that seems to go pretty well with the themes of war they were trying to portray so Good Job on that! There was also some soldiers who seemed well informed on what guns did because they shot them frequently. I was glad to see that. The aleins were like water balloons with weird metal flesh. I didn't really care for that. They were blowing up earth because they wanted to drink all our water. Is that they best the writers could think of? Was he trying to write the film real quick because he was really thirsty and suddenly this genious idea came to him??? PROBEBLY! 

At least there was one good part of
the movie

Because of it's poor adaptation from Rage Against The Machine album and it's weird insertion of Harvey Dent from the Batman universe (which is apparently the same universe this picture takes place in) i (and everyone else) felt let down and too confused. I would run to the boarder if i were the writer or director of this movie because I bet a lot of people will be looking to flip them off. I give this my lowest possible score, ** two stars