The Medic

I hate giving up on movies, I feel it like a failure. But I was glad to give up on this tripe and throw the DVD in the bin. There are no saving graces....not one. I feel quite misled for a start because the cover depicted a cityscape battle scene that suggested a sprawling global fight with aliens including everyone, military, police, civilians. This is misrepresentation because almost the entire movie is shot by the river and there are no city scapes. The acting is nothing more than dire. Seriously, the director must have made no attempt to get anything from the actors, they're all so bad I felt embarrassed for them. The story? Well, it wasn't really a story at all. It was boy scouts playing in the woods and their antics filmed badly by an inexperienced and unskilled video camera user. I so vehemently wish I could get a refund on this garbage.

Your rounds will empty quickly, with most of them going up into the air. That's because the barrel rises; even if you're trying to push it down. I don't know the science; but it's recoil. The larger the caliber, the more the recoil. The film itself is unidimensional; but is trying to be realistic. I think it deserves five stars.

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!

So five guys or so just saw Battle Los Angeles and District 9 and voila Battle Earth. The camera is shaky, the dialog is shakey, the aliens are shaky, the plot? Well it could've been a short film. The reason for the dist 9 ref is the aliens called " squids " just like The Prawns, except w ludicrous costumes. So a group of Canadian soldiers are fighting them in the woods or a park or maybe even in someone's garden. Yup it's that bad.

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?