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Battle of Los Angeles
2011

Director: Mark Atkins
Cast: Kel Mitchell, Nia Peeples, Theresa Jun-Tao, Dylan Vox, Gerald Webb, Edward DeRuiter, Darin Cooper, Rober Pike Daniel

Aliens arrive over Los Angeles in their massive spaceship and begin to destroy military targets, just as a mysterious pilot flies in from year 1942. However, this dismal low budget science fiction flick makes no pretensions to having an original story; it amounts to a series of poorly staged action scenes and not-at-all-special effects. There are no character introductions or any kind of context to the scale of the attack. The future of humanity appears to be at stake, but the movie follows a handful of faceless soldiers who try to survive the destruction. They attempt to bring down the alien destroyers with bullets, not realising that a samurai sword is a much more effective weapon. The film is indescribably silly and awful, but not bad enough to be entertaining. The whole alien invasion seems to play out in real time, so it's conveniently over in less than 90 minutes. This mockbuster was released simultaneously with the more prestigious Battle: Los Angeles.