BATTLE LOS ANGELES

It’s August of the year 2011 and Ssgt. Michael Nantz (Aaron Eckhaart) has just resigned from the US marine corp. He can’t run down the beach as fast as he used to, or there’s some sketchy business with members of his unit in Iraq getting killed, or something … Either way, Nantz can’t take it anymore. Unfortunately for him, aliens have decided that very day to invade earth. Ooops. Battle: Los Angeles is one hour and 57 minutes of blowing things up with the shards of a plot buried somewhere in the mangled bodies of the dozen or so supporting characters that bite the dust throughout.  Highly recommended if you think pies are a food group unto themselves and your prefrontal cortex is still developing. (LH) *1/2