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Michael Nantz : Ambruster, William R. Michael Nantz : Wharton, Jeffrey H. Lance Corporal. Michael Nantz : Lockett, Duane G. Michael Nantz , Cpl. Jason Lockett : Michael Nantz : Your brother was an outstanding Marine.

He was my friend. And I miss him every day. And you remind me of him. Sign In. Original title: Battle: Los Angeles. Play trailer Action Sci-Fi. Director Jonathan Liebesman. Christopher Bertolini. Top credits Director Jonathan Liebesman. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Battle: Los Angeles -- Trailer 2. Battle: Los Angeles -- International Trailer 2. Battle: Los Angeles -- Trailer 1. Battle: Los Angeles - International Trailer. Battle Los Angeles.

Interview Battle: Los Angeles. Promo Photos Top cast Edit. Aaron Eckhart Ssgt. Michael Nantz as Ssgt. Michael Nantz. Michelle Rodriguez TSgt. Elena Santos as TSgt. Elena Santos. Bridget Moynahan Michele as Michele.

Ramon Rodriguez 2nd Lt. William Martinez as 2nd Lt. William Martinez. Will Rothhaar Cpl. Lee Imlay as Cpl. Lee Imlay. Cory Hardrict Cpl. Jason Lockett as Cpl.

Jason Lockett. Jim Parrack LCpl. Peter Kerns as LCpl. Peter Kerns. Gino Anthony Pesi Cpl. Nick Stavrou as Cpl. Nick Stavrou. Ne-Yo Cpl. Kevin Harris as Cpl. Kevin Harris. James Hiroyuki Liao LCpl. Steven Mottola as LCpl. Steven Mottola. Noel Fisher Pfc. Shaun Lenihan as Pfc. Shaun Lenihan. Neil Brown Jr. Richard Guerrero as LCpl. Richard Guerrero. Taylor Handley LCpl. Corey Simmons as LCpl. Corey Simmons. Joey King Kirsten as Kirsten.

Lucas Till Cpl. Scott Grayston as Cpl. Scott Grayston. Jonathan Liebesman. More like this. Watch options. As the Marines use their combat knives to carve into the aliens, they find one layer after another of icky gelatinous pus-filled goo. Luckily, the other aliens are mostly seen in long shot, where they look like stick figures whipped up by apprentice animators.

Aaron Eckhart stars as Staff Sgt. Nantz, a year veteran who has something shady in his record, which people keep referring to, although screenwriter Christopher Bertolini is too cagey to come right out and describe it.

Never mind. Eckhart is perfectly cast, and let the word go forth that he makes one hell of a great-looking action hero. He is also a fine actor, but acting skills are not required from anyone in this movie. The dialogue consists almost entirely of terse screams: Watch it! Look out! Although the platoon includes the usual buffet of ethnicities, including Latinos, Asians and a Nigerian surgeon, none of them get much more than a word or two in a row, so as characters, they're all placeholders.

You gotta see the alien battleships in this movie. They seem to have been assembled by the proverbial tornado blowing through a junkyard. They're aggressively ugly and cluttered, the product of a planet where design has not been discovered and even the Coke bottles must look like pincushions. Although these ships presumably arrived inside the meteors, one in particular exhibits uncanny versatility, by rising up from the Earth before the very eyes of the startled Marines.

How, you may ask, did it tunnel for 10 or 12 blocks under Santa Monica to the battle lines at Lincoln Boulevard?

There is a lazy editing style in action movies these days that assumes nothing need make any sense visually. In a good movie, we understand where the heroes are, and where their opponents are, and why, and when they fire on each other, we understand the geometry. In a mess like this, the frame is filled with flashes and explosions and shots so brief that nothing makes sense. From time to time, there'll be a closeup of Aaron Eckhart screaming something, for example, and on either side of that shot, there will be unrelated shots of incomprehensible action.

When I think of the elegant construction of something like "Gunfight at the OK Corral," I want to rend the hair from my head and weep bitter tears of despair. Generations of filmmakers devoted their lives to perfecting techniques that a director like Jonathan Liebesman is either ignorant of, or indifferent to. Yet he is given millions of dollars to produce this assault on the attention span of a generation.

Young men: If you attend this crap with friends who admire it, tactfully inform them they are idiots. Young women: If your date likes this movie, tell him you've been thinking it over, and you think you should consider spending some time apart. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from until his death in In , he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Rated PG for sustained and intense sequences of war violence and destruction, and for language.