Battlefield Earth

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Battlefield Earth

PG-13

Released May 12, 2000

1h 57m

Sci-Fi

Adventure

Action

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In the year 3000, there are no countries, no cities... Earth is a wasteland. And man is an endangered species. As the leader of the evil Psychlos, Terl and his race have taken over the world's natural resources and disregarded everyone and everything else. It's up to Jonnie "Goodboy" Tyler, a brave human, to battle the Psychlos and restore normalcy to the world.

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Critics Consensus

Ugly, campy, and poorly acted, Battlefield Earth is a stunningly misguided, aggressively bad sci-fi folly.

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Alexander Walker

London Evening Standard

Appalling.

Jun 3, 2015

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Jeff Strickler

Minneapolis Star Tribune

Logic is in short supply. Burned-out cities have electricity, for example. My favorite: A hangar full of jets, buried under 1,000 years of dust, not only fire up instantly but still have full tanks of gas.

Apr 30, 2014

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Jay Boyar

Orlando Sentinel

Not awful, but pretty bad. A third-string Planet of the Apes meets Star Trek, Battlefield Earth is a largely uninspiring sci-fi adventure with a Swiss-cheese plot.

Apr 30, 2014

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Tony Black

Cultural Conversation

It remains, genuinely, the worst film produced this century, as of 2020, and it is hard to imagine anything taking its crown any time soon.

Rated: 1/5

Feb 15, 2021

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Brian Gill

Mad About Movies Podcast

Lives up to the hype. This is the worst movie ever made.

Rated: F

Sep 2, 2020

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Nick Rogers

Midwest Film Journal

Nothing so entertaining, albeit in none of the right ways, should scrape WOAT status. It's not even one of the 10 worst films from 2000, a distressingly dunderheaded year for movies in general after one of the best ever.

Rated: 1/5

Jun 24, 2020

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bill k

so spectacular at how bad it is that is almost ironically fun to watch just to make fun of stupid and nonsensical to the point of dispair battlefield earth based on the l ron Hubbard scientology book which I predict is better than this schlocky mess of a movie is bad without any good quallties everything is campy in the worst ways possible, from the fake and stupid looking costumes to the over the top idiotic dialogue and poorly shot and unrealistic action scenes ripping off from sci fi movie masterpieces Star Wars and independence day. this is a perfect example how not to make a movie its that bad.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

11/27/24

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Timur, Chi, T, Samilia, Tangram and Samil M

Ugly, poorly acted, and boring movie I have ever seen.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

11/17/24

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Landon W

This movie is probably the most boring movie that I have ever seen. The fighting scenes are the saddest fighting scenes that I have ever scene in any movie in the world. The actor don't pay their parts very well either. This is probably the lowest grossing movie on Earth.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

11/01/24

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Diane M

This is a war crime. Utterly and completely appalling.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

08/31/24

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Christina G

Watching paint dry would be more entertaining.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

07/28/24

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C.J. K

It is just bad. I watched it when it came out. 24 years later it’s still a waste of time, I take issue with the reviewer who chose to associate Star Trek with this groaner. Star Wars Phantom Menace is more appropriate.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

06/25/24

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In the year 3000, there are no countries, no cities... Earth is a wasteland. And man is an endangered species. As the leader of the evil Psychlos, Terl and his race have taken over the world's natural resources and disregarded everyone and everything else. It's up to Jonnie "Goodboy" Tyler, a brave human, to battle the Psychlos and restore normalcy to the world.

Director: Roger Christian
Producer: Jonathan D. Krane, Elie Samaha, John Travolta
Screenwriter: L. Ron Hubbard, Corey Mandell, J.D. Shapiro
Distributor: Warner Bros.
Production Co: Battlefield Productions LLC, Morgan Creek Productions, JTP Films, Franchise Pictures
Rating: PG-13 (Sci-Fi Violence)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Adventure, Action
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 12, 2000, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): May 2, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $21.5M
Runtime: 1h 57m
Sound Mix: SDDS, Dolby Digital, DTS, Surround, Dolby SR
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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