"Battle Los Angeles"

                                     

      If your are into jam packed action from start to finish, blood/gore, epic war scenes, and amazing acting, "Battle Los Angeles" is the movie for you. I saw "Battle LA" the day it came out and i cannot stop talking about it. The movie was mainly about an alien army that attacks the world and what a certain platoon goes through in order to save Los Angeles from total annihilation. In the beginning, the audience meets a plentiful amount of characters and you just know that half of them are soon to meet their doom. As the movie goes on, marines are being gunned down left and right from the opposing alien enemy. The aliens were extremely well equipped and it almost seemed impossible to kill them. But a twenty year veteran of the Marines, finds out the exact way to kill them, which was a huge turning point in the battle. Now, knowing where to shoot the enemy, the marines could eliminate and destroy the enemy ten times quicker to ultimately achieve their main objective. The marines main objective throughout the movie was to find any civilians left in the city and escort them to the safe zone. While on this mission the marine soldiers encounter many hardships along the way.
     A great advantage that the aliens had was technology. It seemed that the aliens were way better equipped with weapons and armor that put a brutal force upon the marines. Many marines learned through out the battles that the alien planes weren't even manned. This meant, that the plane's were being flown by a computer miles away. The marines couldn't even fathom that these planes were killing their fellow soldiers and friends so quickly, and when they learned that they planes didn't even have a pilot, it absolutely crushed them. Imagine fighting something for hours, with it successfully killing your other allies, it trying to kill you, and finding out that no one is even flying the aircraft, and that it is being remote controlled from something miles away... What would you do or think?
      A critical part in the movie is when the marine soldiers find the aliens main controlling tower. They knew, that if they took out this main tower, it would block off all communications the main alien base had with its army. When the marines finally destroyed the main tower, it wasn't too long after that, that the alien enemy started to retreat. It was the dedication of these marines that made the ending battle of the movie so epic. Through out the whole movie, you saw American marines just get completely over run by these aliens. Your heart just went out to each and every soldier and you could only think about your family and friends who are in the armed forces and what they must be going through in battle today.
      A real cool thing about the movie, was that it had modern day weapons and fighting. I love old war movies, but the new age war weapons and fighting tactics are just so much cooler to me. The U.S. is so technologically advanced, it's super cool to actually see it first hand in this movie. A cool fact about the movie is that the singer/song writer "Ne-Yo", played a key roll as a marine from New York. Ne-Yo wasn't the only cool actor in the movie, other actors included...Michelle Rodriguez, Aaron Eckhart, Ramon Rodriguez, Cory Hardrict, and many more!

Author- Patrick Keegan