Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000

It's a lock to pile up the honors during Hollywood's annual awards season next spring (at the Golden Raspberries and the MTV Movie Awards).

An underlit, overlong, underwritten and overloud albatross of a movie.

The story's broad strokes are painfully clichéd and its details make no sense at all.

Awful in so many different ways.

The only danger in seeing this film is in busting a gut at its unintentional hilarity.

It may be a bit early to make such judgments, but Battlefield Earth may well turn out to be the worst movie of this century.

In the pantheon of cinematic train wrecks, from "Ishtar" to "Waterworld," set a place at the table for Battlefield Earth.

Hail to the brilliance of Roger Christian. In giving us Battlefield Earth, he has crafted a master class of what not to do in film making. I don't think he will ever be completely understood.

This is a terrible movie, but it has a satisfying ending. John Travolta's acting was, as usual, awful. You expect a powerful voice to come out of that enormous face, and especially when he's on stilts as he is in BE. However, Travolta has a brittle, high-pitched, shaky voice. It's no good for an actor. Especially for the main character (and I feel he was the main character). The story was good, but the transitions from one scene to the next were the worst I've seen from any movie. It reminded me of a 60's TV sit-com show, like I Love Lucy. The special effects were not the worst I've ever seen, but they were not good. The main good guy has the perfect face for an actor, and he does a great job. His lover girl is also good in the movie. Forrest Whitaker did a good job, except for the evil laughing. Most of the other actors were pretty bad. Some of them were god-awful. I think especially of the pilot in the jet who saw his buddy get shot down, and he yelled, "Nooo!!" It was terrible acting, like he was trying to keep his voice down so as not to wake the people in the neighboring studio. There were a couple other scenes like that with terrible acting. I bet it would've been a better film if they got a better actor instead of Travolta.

this is an awesome movie i can't understand why people don't like this it takes place in the 3000 for crying out loud

I saw a bit of this years ago, not the entire film but enough to see it was boring. Finally having watched Battlefield Earth in full I can honestly say this is John Travolta's worst film along with Face/Off and Broken Arrow. Battlefield Earth is slow, the humour is awful, the explosion scenes are okay but besides that the action is awful. No story, and no character development and it looks depressing. Poor acting and it made zero sense.

"Crap lousy ceiling!" Lots of neat concepts mostly ripped from better sci-fi, and put together in the worst way achievable. Super entertaining though