BATTLEFIELD EARTH(2000)
Deemed one of the worst movies of 2000-2010, no one
liked it! Howsomeever, I gotta say, other than casting,
this was, to me pretty decent! Not Star Wars/Star Trek/
Babylon 5 good, but certainly worth a watch! B
From a reviewer at Amazon.com:
In the year 3000, mankind will be a depleted
species-scavenging among the mountains,
eating live rats, or toiling as slaves under the evil
Psychlos. This is bad news, although it could be worse;
mankind of the year 2000, for instance, is urged to sit
in dark halls and watch a movie so worthless that even
a rat, alive or dead, would come as welcome relief.
John Travolta, with a bunch of old gray ropes where
his hair should be, plays the Psychlo chief of security,
who hates his job and has to contend with a band of
rebellious earthlings. The director is Roger Christian,
who, if early audience response is anything to go by,
would do well to flee the country under an assumed
name. The co-star is Forest Whitaker, a fine actor who
must be praying that audiences will fail to penetrate
his heavy disguise. And the script is adapted from
the novel by L. Ron Hubbard, the father of Scientology;
it would have taken all his fabled powers of spirit and
intellect to weather this catastrophe. Meanwhile,
for those who have wondered whether a philosophical
message is embedded deep inside this film, good
news. There is such a message, and it reads: "You are free
to leave." -Anthony Lane Copyright c 2006 The New Yorker