Battalion - Schlachtfeld Erde

Poor effects - which is ok for such a low budget. Poor sets and costumes - for which a poor budget is no excuse. Poor acting. Poor American accents, I mean I think i could do a better Australian accent than these Australians do American accents.

Things didn't exactly make a lot of sense either: Why fly an airliner at the aliens? Did anyone making, acting in or characters in the movie ever see anything military-related? The odds are against it. And what "battalion"?

I gave it an extra star for effort to tell an original story and for not preaching to me. Otherwise not good at all.

This has all the directoral skill, acting ability, script writing, cinematography and flow of a high-school fan film... except we've seen far better fan films. Some of the camera work looks like it came out of the 60s, the acting out of the 70s, and the plot straight out of the "mean aliens" handbook. This doesn't even qualify as schlock; this is people making a movie who have no idea what they're doing. Me giving a film 1-star isn't common-- they have to be total garbage to earn that rating, but this one definitely qualifies. I haven't seen work this bad since... well, I guess I have to give it creds for being uniquely bad of its own right. This might qualify for the SyFy channel... if the company needed a last-minute fill-in and was desperate. But it would damage their reputation.

Should have check out the reviews here before getting this con job. It's something a Kid made in grade school

I liked the premise of this film, OK, it's a mish-mash of other science fiction films, but that's no bad thing if done well.

Unfortunately this is not done well.

The dialogue is poor, delivery is worse.

Effects are poor by today's standards.

Acting is one of the better aspects of this film, seriously. However the bar is low.

The story is very confused and the telling, using drawn out boring flashbacks is confusing.

The music reminds me of waiting in an elevator.

Have to admit, about have way through I started to hit the fast forward button. It did not lessen my understanding of the story, nor detract from any sense of drama. I'm pretty certain I didn't miss anything.

I gave it two for effort, while technically failing and wasting an evening, the film has vision, and a crew willing to give it a go.

I had high hopes that this movie might be a diverting sci-fi action film, but I was very disappointed. It was really quite painful to watch. Especially in the first third of the movie, the unexplained jumping back and forth in the timeline was bewildering. The acting was wooden, and the dialog clumsy. Speeches from the panel of 3 officers, summarizing the action, were totally improbable. In other parts dialog which may have been interesting was lost due to music, sound effects, or plain mumbling. The special effects were mildly interesting, but the spray of bouncy black cgi dots when alien shots hit humans was distracting. The humanoid alien robots seemed to have learned how to walk from R2D2. Did someone really spend $AU 50,000 on this?