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Battlefield Earth is the movie adaptation by the book of the same name by L. Ron Hubbard.  For 1000 years man has been enslaved by aliens from far across the Galaxy.  Now one man from an enclave of people hiding from the alien menace in a radiated hot spot is going to change the future and save humanity, he just doesn't know it yet.  As the saying goes you can't keep a good man down.  The aliens just don't know whom they are messing with even though he shows them the war was only on hiatus.  Sure the first war only lasted nine minutes but this time it will be different.

This may get me hung in some circles, but I enjoyed this movie.  It has a big budget that it put to use in a mix of elaborate sets, mixed sized visuals, and flying machines and high tech weapons fire.  The story has one major flaw in it, and that is the alien's lack of history to know that even though they are comparatively primitive technology-wise the humans are not stupid.  It is probably meant to be a comment of some sort but it just makes much of the action of the film predictable.  However there are enough options for the human take-over to proceed that the film keeps from being boring.

The dialog and the acting is over the top, trite, and occasionally conceited yet it seems to fit perfectly.  The movie is like a big budget B-movie in that respect.  It's definitely not haute couture, or maybe even cinema, but it is a good flick.  I have no idea whatsoever if it follows the book at all, or to what degree, but it wasn't required reading material to understand the film.  Guessing from responses elsewhere its probably best not to have read the book before seeing the movie.

( Thank you for reading my review.
Bob Male)

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