Battle Los Angeles Blu-ray

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Please note this is a region B blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Battle Los Angeles is a war movie first science fiction second It&s got it all a burned-out retiring sergeant who gets drawn back in because dammit the Marines need him; the guy who&s about to get married; the guy who&s still a virgin; the guy suffering from shell shock & who just might crack; the newbie officer with a lot of book learning who you just know is going to freeze under pressure & have to be shepherded by that burned-out sergeant who learned his lessons on the battlefield… & so much more There&s not a moment in this movie you haven&t seen before--the only twist is that the enemy is alien so whatever shred of concern you might have for raining heavy artillery on a fellow human being can be cheerfully cast aside But cliches are cliches because they are efficient & effective & despite the profound familiarity of Battle Los Angeles there&s no denying the movie rips along (though two-thirds of the way through you may have forgotten who was the virgin & who was the shell-shocked guy--but really does it matter?) The look owes a debt to District 9 a h&-held verite grittiness with most of the CGI carefully given a dingy dirty look so that it meshes with the urban landscape Aaron Eckhart (The Dark Knight) does an impressive job of spitting out ham-fisted dialogue like he really really means it while the rest of the cast is suitably generic This is an unrepentant love letter to the military; many viewers faced with the unsettling chaos & moral ambiguities of real wars will find this mythologizing not only soothing but even moving --Bret Fetzer Special Features Behind the Battle Aliens in LA Preparing for Battle Creating LA