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Battlefield Earth

Play trailer 0:54 Poster for Battlefield Earth PG-13 Released May 12, 2000 1h 57m Sci-Fi Adventure Action Play Trailer Watchlist
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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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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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Brian Gill Mad About Movies Podcast Lives up to the hype. This is the worst movie ever made. Rated: F Sep 2, 2020 Full Review 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 Full Review Read all reviews

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George M First, I hate the book this abominable tripe was based on. I HATE IT. Let's get that clear. Hubbard is a mostly crap writer with barely an original idea in his head, his stuff is The Asylum of writing. This movie - is even worse. No logic. Bad acting. Poor ideas, plot holes as deep as the marianas trench. If this movie were teamed up with say, the Creeping Terror, it could make grown people cry. It could make criminals confess. Don't believe any positive reviews of this. IT IS THAT BAD. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 05/28/25 Full Review Ian R One of, if not the worst, movies of all time. Horrible acting with even worst script and plot. I don’t think I’ve seen a worst movie in years. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 04/01/25 Full Review Brad S. R Unquestionably bad, but somehow no more so than films that made far more at the box office. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 03/15/25 Full Review Linda H I would give it 0 if I could. Terrible movie. Humans managing to fly jet planes just by playing with a simulator. Travolta looked ridiculous in his platform boots. Why wasn't the pesky human killed right off? I rented it as a video, big regret. Not worth a cent. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 03/09/25 Full Review Matthew S Genuinely puzzling - looks like a pastiche or joke - but without the satire. Total absence of reason or logic or plot.. not even a film you can enjoy on drugs - as whatever way you look at it no attempt was made by the film-makers to make what is going on on screen in any way enjoyable. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/15/25 Full Review Breno A Muito bom Nostalgia me faz ver esse filme as vezes Rated 5 out of 5 stars 12/27/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis 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, JTP Films, Morgan Creek Productions, 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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