Battle of Los Angeles (film)

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Movie
German title Battle of Los Angeles
Original title Battle of Los Angeles
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2011
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Mark Atkins
script Mark Atkins
production David Michael Latt
music Kays Al-Atrakchi
Brian Ralston
camera Mark Atkins
cut Mark Atkins
occupation

Battle of Los Angeles is an American science fiction and disaster film directed by Mark Atkins from 2011.

action

An unidentified flying object is detected in the airspace of Los Angeles and turns out to be a huge UFO . The UFO attacks the city and destroys numerous buildings. American fighter jets fire missiles that are reprogrammed by the UFO within a few seconds. The jets are destroyed. On a ground base, Captain Arnstead and Lieutenant Solano prepare to support their comrades in the air. Not only is the mothership itself a threat; it also sends out numerous smaller spaceships to attack the military. Arnstead is pursued and killed by a spaceship. Solano manages to jump with a parachute in time and she escapes back to the military base. Numerous people have now been killed here. What remains are Lieutenant Tyler Laughlin, who takes command, Lieutenant Jeffery Newman and a pilot who lands on the base in a WWII machine . It's about Captain Pete Rodgers, who went missing in 1942. The group, which Solano also joins, is instructed by radio to take Rodgers to secure Sector 7.

On their way to Sector 7, the group makes difficult progress, as spaceships and other things lurk everywhere that were sent out by the mother ship and want to kill people. The group finally comes to the aid of Captain Karla Smaith, whose samurai sword keeps the attackers at a distance. In the bunker in Sector 7, the reason for the alien attack emerges: An alien named Karl is held captive in a cage and is to be freed by an attack. Rodgers, in turn, was sent by the aliens as an intermediary. He frees Karl and is beheaded. Karl in turn dies and instructs Laughlin beforehand to use his spaceship. Newman is killed while trying to escape. Smaith, Laughlin and the injured Solano arrive at the spaceship, which Laughlin can fly by instinct. He steers it straight into the heart of the mother ship. Here the group meets the alien mother who Laughlin can kill with a bomb. Solano is also killed. Rodgers, who is still alive, is finally killed. A chain explosion sets in, which Laughlin and Smaith in Karl's spaceship survive because they activated the protective shield. They end up leaving the wrecked mothership and walking away.

production

Battle of Los Angeles was produced by The Asylum for Syfy . The costumes were created by Sarah Schultz , the film construction was done by Aaron J. Martin .

Battle of Los Angeles was created as a mockbuster of the science fiction war film World Invasion: Battle Los Angeles by Jonathan Liebesman , which was released on March 11, 2011. Battle of Los Angeles was released the following day and came out on DVD that same month. In Germany it was released directly on DVD on May 13, 2011 and was shown for the first time on German television on October 8, 2012 on Tele 5 . On June 26, 2015, Battle of Los Angeles was also shown on Tele 5 on German television as part of the series The worst films of all times (SchleFaZ), with commentary by Oliver Kalkofe and Peter Rütten .

criticism

"Top-class science fiction action film, in staging, acting and the use of CGI effects equally on the lowest level", judged the film service . For Cinema it was “scrap that made you giggle and shake your head”. The Winnipeg Free Press noted that the film contained computer animation that wistfully reminds one of the realism of the Atari video games of 1980.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New on DVD . In: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) , March 27, 2011, p. E3.
  2. ^ Battle of Los Angeles. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ See cinema.de
  4. ^ "Computer animation that makes one wistful for the realism of Atari video games circa 1980." The Buzz . In: Winnipeg Free Press , April 7, 2011.