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| NZone |
(3 out of 5 stars) "Dreadlocked aliens turn mankind into an endangered species. Guess who's their leader?" more... |
| CBC Infoculture: Hollywood at its most inept |
"It's not just that it's a stupid movie...[T]his is easily the most inept movie produced in Hollywood since the golden age of Ed Wood." more... |
| Cinema Sense |
(Copper) "A laugh out loud comic book. By distilling the worst qualities of our fallible human nature in absurd alien overlords, we see some of the horror we wreak on our environment and fellow creatures." more... |
| culturevulture.net |
"[An] unholy mess of a sci-fi extravaganza, so muddled and mindless it makes David Lynch's much-reviled 'Dune' look like a model of coherence and crisp storytelling..." more... |
| Deseret News (Salt Lake City) |
(0 stars) "Bad science-fiction has a new name, and it is 'Battlefield Earth,' the early frontrunner for this year's worst movie." more... |
| E! Online |
(grade: C-) "...[a] cinematic vat of cheese." more... |
| Flick Filosopher |
"It's been about 36 hours since I stumbled from the theater where I was tortured with 'Battlefield Earth,' and the psychic wounds are only beginning to show themselves." more... |
| goodauthority: 'Battlefield Earth' Will Tank |
"Media watchers, with their big tongues hanging out the sides of their mouths, showed all the restrained glee of an Irish Setter in a city park last year when they declared the dawning of the era of online movie marketing." more... |
| goodauthority: Space Trash |
"John Travolta's long-planned space epic, 'Battlefield Earth,' is a mind-boggler. It's so irredeemably god-awful, you can't believe it ever made it past the 'Get the hell out of my office' stage." more... |
| Harvey's Movie Reviews |
" Ponderous and silly sci-fi epic from the novel by L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the scientology religion to which star John Travolta belongs." more... |
| James Berardinelli |
(1 out of 4 stars) "...[a] wreck of a motion picture..." more... |
| JoBlo's Movie Emporium |
(7 out of 10) "Fun cheese. Despite starting off like a bad Star Trek episode, this film eventually graduates to a higher level with great special effects, some really slick bad-ass aliens, an intriguing premise and a good flow of loud, campy fun." more... |
| Nitrate Online |
"By all means, run, don't walk, to your nearest theater, where you can enjoy this peerless piece of camp, in all its glory, on the big screen." more... |
| Orlando Weekly Movies: Scientology Fiction |
(2 out of 5 stars) "Naysayers have been quick to joke about the possibility of veiled connections between 'Battlefield Earth' and the self-proclaimed 'religion' of Scientology." more... |
| PopMatters: A Huge Visual Feast |
"As one of four producers for the film, Travolta helped to secure the $100 million independent financing, most of which seems to have gone into the Psychlos' elaborate dreadlocked wigs and the enormous platform boots that make the big meanies look eight feet tall and terribly slow on their feet." more... |
| Radio Free Entertainment |
(1.5 out of 10) "What the heck is Rob Zombie doing in movie?" more... |
| Spliced Online: Travolta's 'Waterworld' |
"Pepper saves enslaved humanity from scenery-chewing aliens in hilariously bad 'Battlefield Earth.'" more... |
| Variety |
"Pretty much the 'Showgirls' of sci-fi shoot-'em-ups, the new John Travolta starrer proves that even members of the $20 million-per club can push audience goodwill to the breaking point -- and that point may soon be synonymous with 'Battlefield Earth.'" more... |
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