Battle Earth

I am Canadian and I found this movie beyond laudable. This movie was so bad I feel I dropped IQ points just for watching it. The acting was terrible and rigid, wholly unbelievable. The Costumes department made some terrible errors in the Canadian Combat Infantryman's uniform and gear. The Aliens were unbelievable. Even the props used in the film were a joke. If you are Canadian and reading this you should feel embarrassed and start apologizing for this film being release by your country. I really was hoping for more from the studios that made this low budget film. This film was definitely the worst thing I have seen in the last 20 years, and I have seen a lot of crap movies in my day.

Why is one of the leaders of a Canadian infantry squad wearing an Arafat kifaya scarf? He even pulls it over his face every time combat starts, as if he is afraid the aliens might take his picture and put it on the internet.

The squad actually decides to just abandon a moderately wounded sergeant because "ya can't save everyone" and he "might slow us down". Worse, despite the script, they don't seem to be in much of a hurry.

Others have commented on the misleading cover, poor acting, and shallow plot. This movie stinks.

That's a shame because I love the "Earth invaded" genre, and there are some potentially creative plot elements including a mysterious alien pod. But that's not enough to overcome the shallowness and boredom.

Well, given the production value and the budget for this movie, nothing much can be expected from it, and truth be told, the movie doesn't really deliver.

Despite this fact, then I have to say that the effort and force behind the movie was well-meant and wholeheartedly. And credit should be due for the effort that was put into this movie, at least. Sure, this isn't a major Hollywood blockbuster, nor is it a multi-million dollar budget movie. But for an amateur movie-maker project, then "The Medic" (aka "Battle Earth") was a good attempt, and it did seem that the people had fun making it and participating in it.

The story in the movie was really tame and weak, and it was basically a no-brainer from start to end. It was really a challenge to keep focus on the movie, as it just had nothing to offer at all.

Don't expect to see award-winning performances here in this movie. This is a low-budget movie, and the people hired for the movie weren't seasoned actors, and it showed through the performances on the screen. But still, I bet they had fun running around in uniforms fighting aliens in hilarious costumes.

Bring coffee with you if you plan to sit down and make it through this movie. Because keeping focus all throughout the movie is somewhat of a battle!

Basic premise: Aliens invade Earth and your people on the street are roped in to fight them.

Bottom line: A bunch of actors running about the wilderness shouting at each other and being fired on by actors wearing dodgy squid masks.

Enjoyment: Very little. It really is just a bunch of guys in someone's back garden. Even the muzzle flashes are poor, poor, CGI.

The Bad: When your film is low budget, at least try and inject some sort of content that'll make the viewer remember the film ten minutes after they've watched it. Like gore. Or a story. Or an ending that isn't crap.

This is a very poor excuse for a film, even for a low budget film. I had a camcorder once and about ten pounds and still made something better than this. What were they thinking? How could the filmmakers have thought anyone could get any enjoyment out of this? That's two crap films in a row I've watched that were made recently - I'm going back to the eighties for my next film (after I'm finished watched Carnival of Fear (also crap)).

What a rubbish, rubbish film.

I am furious because the DVD cover looked good (depicting a city in flames and a bridge being blown up) when in actual fact that never happened in the film.

It was just a load of blokes running around a woods pretending to be soldiers. If you swapped the guns for a paint balling gun, it would have been the same (but perhaps funnier!)

I wish I had read some reviews before I bought the movie.

Very disappointing - a 13 year old could have made a better film that this one.

Can I have my money back?