Battle Earth (2012 aka The Medic/Inception
Media DVD)
Picture:
C Sound: D Extras: D Main Program: C+
Aliens
have invaded Earth. 6 months later, Earth no longer belongs to the humans; Earth
belongs to the aliens now and they have started their invasion in Canada. What humans remain continue the war against
the aliens. A group of soldiers are sent on a secret mission with a mysterious
package into deep alien territory. After their helicopter gets shot down they
find themselves wounded, out numbered, out gunned, but they still have to
complete the mission. Little do they know of the cargo they are carrying, it
may be the key to turn the tide of the war.... but which is worth more, the
lives of the men or completing the mission?
In Aaron
Kurmey’s Battle Earth (2012), the
aliens have arrived and the world we know it now belongs to the Cthulhu-headed
aliens. A group of newbie troops are sent
in on a secret mission that they don't even know about. All they know is to follow their orders and
kill as many aliens as they can along the way. After their crash landing they begin to lose
their soldier brothers one by one. As
moral plummets, the soldiers are stressed out, paranoid, and show signs of
turning against one another and when they find out that their 'precious' cargo
turns not to be the key to the war that they hoped for, some mind altering bio
life form, is it really worth their lives to be the guinea pigs of this
experiment?
Aside
from the great looking cover this was not what I had hope. There were no high tech spaceships, much less
ruined cities, the soldiers all had camo uniform and gear, but were all way too
clean and too personalized to look like they belonged in the military. The characters attitudes and the way they
carried themselves reminded me more of weekend warrior paint ballers than
soldiers. The film took place in the
forest the whole time and the 'alien' looked person with a Cthulhu mask, and it
was same alien, never saw more than one alien on screen a time. The CG looked like stock footage and the
crashes looked like it was done on a single computer. In short this movie tried to look real, but
ended up looking pretty fake and that brought down the overall picture
performance, which is soft. The sound is
much worse and there are no extras.
- Ricky Chiang
