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Battle: New York, Day 2
Laura Sommers is hearing voices in her head and consults with a psychiatrist. The therapy is suddenly cut short when New York City is rocked by an alien invasion...
Release : | 2011 |
Rating : | 1.9 |
Studio : | |
Crew : | Second Unit, Director, |
Cast : | Danielle Quisenberry Kathleen Kwan Maduka Steady |
Genre : | Horror Science Fiction |
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the audience applauded
Lack of good storyline.
Admirable film.
There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.
Terrible. Ranks among the worse movies I've seen. In my opinion its lousy in respect to just about everything that has to do with a movie. It seems to me that it could be compared to a group of freshman college kids trying to make a movie from a horrible script with inferior equipment. E for effort though! Some of the acting is OK but some is not good at all. It wasn't filmed like Cloverfield or Blair Witch Project with all the bouncing around. What that means is one is not distracted from viewing what I think are all the undesirable elements of this film. So, because of this, attention is drawn to those undesirable aspects. All in all I stick with the E for effort; but, the reality is, in my opinion, it could have been a lot better. Background music and sound doesn't help either. Its not what I call good.
Let's be honest my expectations were low but they were not achieved. I presume this is a student film that has been released in the hope of securing funding for future film projects. As such any producers or companies out there wishing to invest please think again and maybe donate to the Fund for the Conservation of the Dodo, your money will go to less waste.It's hard to blame the actors who work with a script that has been obviously written using a piece of script generation software from a bargain bin in a supermarket. At times the script does work, in particular when it is covered over by the noisy clicks of the microphone being moved. This is when the script is at it's best. Along with when the actors aren't speaking at all.The effects are particularly impressive using a technique known as 'Shit'. One shot of a body riddled with holes is so obviously an actor laying under a sheet of plastic with bullet holes painted on. This would be classed as genius if it weren't so horribly ineffective. The giant wheels are actually probably the only moderately good special effect in the film with a couple of 'money' shots ($2 each I guess) being passable. However most of the other shots are just magnified close ups of spinning wheels.Now on to the bad bits and I will write these as instructions from a non-film maker to a group of film makers: Showing someones feet running down a sidewalk for 2 minutes every 5 minutes does not convey empty streets, it conveys a sidewalk. Why did you not just close another street using yellow tape and show a long shot but next time hide the yellow tape! A close up someones eyes does not give the impression of fear. What it put in my mind was...she's now got more make up on despite being in the middle of 'Invasion of the Spinning Wheels' Sticking a drill bit onto the end of a piece of sprayed grey plastic is probably not as terrifying as it reads. Actually it doesn't read particularly terrifying either.Zombies are not made more terrifying by having them hold their hands up and making their hands into claws by bending their fingers...while gurgling.Showing The Statue of Liberty 6 miles away across water with tourists milling about it does not make me feel like this is an invasion of New York. It makes me think its an invasion of the docks near New York.So in conclusion, and specifically to the film makers. Well done, nice try and let's be honest you gave it a go. Now go off and get nice little jobs as supervisors in supermarkets or accountants but please if you want to work in the film industry could I suggest....ushers?
There's no "Battle." Giant gyroscopes roll around the empty back streets of what's supposed to be New York City, grab the few remaining humans by the throat and drill holes in their heads, after which they all make noises like a speed metal vocalist. I can see you're already intrigued! Well you can't go wrong with special effects by the McNeil Middle School kids. And let's face it, you'd have to recruit at 3AM from every Waffle House in Crowley, LA (there's one by the way) to find a group of thespians this talented. And evil gyroscopes from outer space? Gotta admit, no one has gone there before, and we hope they never will again.
I got this movie at a video rental closeout sale for $5...it was a waste of money. The framing is horrible, brutal acting, a very weak script and the audio...I don't even have an adjective to describe the audio. Most of the film has music that is way too loud, and dialogue that is way too quite, and sound effects that are downright distracting. I recommend if you are to watch this, have the remote close by to adjust audio, since the editor obviously doesn't know how to. The special effects are, well, special...very special. Blood effects look like they are taken from a discounted stock footage library, and those weird rolly ball things are very confusing, they add nothing to the movie and look like they took the longest to make. And the one explosion that I saw(I might have missed some, I fell asleep for about half an hour) wasn't bad, but it was followed with a stupid line. "Boo ya, b*tches" Now to talk about the extras, they are wearing street clothes, or no shirt at all, and run around like pathetic zombies. I thought this was an alien movie, now there's zombies. Also, pointless nudity throughout, probably just there to sell tickets. Don't fall for it, Google was invented for a reason.This movie is a general waste of time, and I would not recommend it to my worst enemy.