0/4 BOMBI've seen a lot of films I couldn't stand. I've seen a lot of films that bored me four-fifths to death. In all of my cinema experiences spanning across a century of filmmaking, I have never seen a movie fail so miserably in comparison to Battlefield Earth. I am not alone in my hatred of my film, nor am I the first... it has the awards to prove it if you don't believe me.In a movie, you need to be able to escape into (or at the very least care about) the events happening on screen. Battlefield Earth is more disconnected from its audience than any movie I've ever seen. Since there is no legitimate effort to get you the viewer involved, the other problems in this movie are really glaring.Director Roger Christian opts to shoot 95% of the scenes in Battlefield Earth with extreme (and I mean extreme) dutch angles to create the feel of a comic book. The only similarity to a comic I could find was the 2-Dimensional delivery, replete with ridiculous looking CGI. What results from this excersize is a good migrane and the realization that there is no vision behind the camera. Christian has much more learning to do in this department, as he was previously a second unit director for Star Wars Episode I, doing transition shots.As far as "acting" goes, try 5 Golden Razzies. John Travolta, playing the lead Psychlo, takes home the decade's worst preformance. Our hero Jonnie Goodboy, as played by Barry Pepper, transitions between incompetent and preforming highly advanced mathematical equations. His violent and very primitive outbursts at his superiors, and his rocket science caliber mind around his own race of "man-animals" is all but a lazy portrayal of a character to whom you are apathetic.The screenplay is either complex to the point of confusion, or downright silly. None of the characters are even proportioned enough to hold up the choppiness of it all. I still want to know how the man-animals imploded an entire planet with one well-placed bomb. Maybe this will be reconciled in a follow up movie.In the movie, someone says to Travolta's character: "But when you die and go to hell, it'll be a step up from this place". That proves to be the seminal line of the film. Even if you don't make it "up there", you won't have to co-exist with Battlefield Earth forever.

I read the book in 1983 when I was a Freshman in High School and I enjoyed it. It's one of 3 SciFi books I've read. At 35 years older, I'm not sure I'd care for it now. The movie is a very poor adaptation, regardless. This is pretty bad. The acting and almost everything else is rather atrocious but I've seen it several times and will likely watch it again in 10 years or so. Rogue One is much worse, it's so boring it made me angry that I'd seen the other Star Wars movies. You know, because they were the reason I went to Rogue One. So, while BE isn't good at least it isn't mind-numbingly boring. A 6 rating is too high but I like the idea of a post-apocalyptic Earth, less people sounds nice. This is probably a good movie to skip unless you're just curious to see how bad some big stars can be at their job.

LRH's oppression of the human race knows no bounds. An absolute marvel of complete failure from top to bottom. And it's crazy boring.

There has never been an 'official' worst film ever, it is usually opinion. Several titles are often cited, such as Robot Monster, Plan 9, Manos: The Hands Of Fate, Troll 2 and Jack & Jill. Another that is often called the worst ever is this film, and I agree.Based on the first half of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's novel, the film is about humans who live on Earth in the year 3000 after the Psychlos have conquered the planet. The main villain Terl (John Travolta) is the head of security on Earth and his assistant is played by an almost unrecognisable Forest Whitaker. The hero Jonnie (Barry Pepper) is a human who wants to take back Earth from the aliens.It is simply a bad movie in every aspect. The camera work is terrible with all the tilts, the music is so exaggerated at times that you think the wrong track was dubbed, the editing between scenes looks like a PowerPoint slide transition, and the lighting/cinematography also looks awful. Costumes look bizarre, especially Travolta who looks like he has snot dripping from his nose the whole film.Then we get onto the worst parts of it all - the dialogue and acting. Travolta gives one of the worst performances in film history as the villain Terl, over-acting every line as much as is humanly possible (or maybe more as he is an alien in the film). Co-stars Barry Pepper and Forest Whitaker are not much better, although they never could have been with such a poor screenplay. It doesn't surprise me that writer Corey Mandell, who re-wrote JD Shapiro's first draft, has not worked since, as the dialogue is laughably bad, particularly that of Travolta's character. As well, the plot of the film is a disjointed mess which has no structure at all, and some ridiculous plot holes. Some people made their minds up due to being against Scientology, however, there is nothing about Scientology in it. That's not why it got it's reputation. It earned its reputation by being a dreadful film. One of the only times I would rate a film 0 if it was possible.