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Battlefield Earth

Take back the planet.

2000 · 1h 59m · PG-13 Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Directed by Roger Christian

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Overview

In the year 3000, man is no match for the Psychlos, a greedy, manipulative race of aliens on a quest for ultimate profit. Led by the powerful Terl, the Psychlos are stripping Earth clean of its natural resources, using the broken remnants of humanity as slaves. What is left of the human race has descended into a near primitive state. After being captured, it is up to Tyler to save mankind.

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3%
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Rotten

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.

Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune
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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.

Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel
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Not so much watched as lived through, Battlefield Earth is bad enough to make audiences ashamed to be part of the same species as the people who made it.

Nathan Rabin, AV Club
Rotten

The summer movie season has barely begun and already it has its first 10-ton turkey.

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald
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With this kind of epic ineptitude -- hell, the flick is set in the year 3000 -- you go for "worst of the millennium."

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

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