Throughout the movie world, whenever there is a war between humans and alien creatures, most of the time humans are always in a weak position. The biggest feature is that the technological level of alien creatures is several grades higher than that of humans! Either with shields like in Independence Day, or terrifying laser weapons and gigantic infantry gear like in War of the Worlds. Even in the rare exception "Starship Fleet", humans have entered the stage of outer space travel, but the Zerg have protection and an amazing number of human bullets that are difficult to break through.
However, in "Battle of Los Angeles", our poor creatures from alien planets, even if they have the ability to invade the earth through interstellar travel, are really weak and pitiful. Whether it is an infantry or an aircraft, the power of its weapons is actually similar to that of human gunpowder weapons, or even worse! Or I can say, the weapons of these interstellar invaders are actually just gunpowder!
After careful analysis, I have to admit that the alien side has a pretty good commander. From the beginning of the film, the aliens quickly occupied the major cities in the world and knocked down the human troops. I can only say that they have the advantage of "intended versus unintentional" in tactics. And the corpse in the car that the team saw when the team entered the battlefield shortly after the start of the film has revealed such a message: this commoner was burned to death! Afterwards, the alien infantry quickly took advantage of the favorable terrain of the city to conduct street battles with the human troops. But unfortunately, the first contact of the squad with them exposed the biggest weakness of their backward weapons. The squad's first fight took place in an alien ambush circle, and it was suddenly lost under the hail of bullets from the alien creatures that had taken over the roof. Yes, you read that right, and I didn't write it wrong, it's "a hail of bullets"! Here, you won't see any of the laser weapons that come standard with the alien invaders in our movies, but only "alien weapons" that can hit the wall. Then you will find that the power of the alien's weapon is weak: if it hits the helmet, it does not wear it, but only burns the head; the bullet that hits the leg only makes a circle in the military pants. burn marks. In the middle of the film, the shot of the civilian with the gun being shot proves the weakness of the alien's individual weapon: after the civilian without any protective ability is directly attacked by the alien weapon from the front, it only appears in the abdomen A symptom of oozing! And it lasted for a long time until he returned to the destroyed military base before he died. I really doubt if it wasn't for the location of the shot, this dude wouldn't necessarily have died.
As for the single soldier carrier weapon that appeared twice, although in the close-up, we can see that the head of the weapon is very "sci-fi" lit up, but whether it is the trailer or the feature film, we can find what is played Actually more like a group of grenades fired at the same time.
And the same goes for those unmanned aerial vehicles that were once awesome in the air. The weapon part in the close-up has a very "sci-fi" light (see the last 7 people who went upstairs to make a phone call and were finally killed), but the last shot was a group of gunpowder weapons with a thick trail of smoke. Those long-range shots of sweeping cities can also prove this. If our fighter missiles are flying out one by one, then their fighter jets are just a dozen missiles fired at the same time and bombing the same point at no cost.
In addition, the weapons of alien creatures look cool in appearance, but they are actually embroidered pillows and a bag of grass! Infantry, the only advantage is that the body structure is somewhat different from that of human beings. It was not until the fatal point was found that they got rid of the image of Xiaoqiang that "you will not die if you get hit with more than 100 shots"; aircraft can also be blown up in front of human RPGs; Finally, the huge command center can be directly blown down from the sky by a missile! Such offensive power and defensive power, as well as the same "characteristic" of unwillingness to abandon dead teammates, made the author even have the illusion that two American troops were fighting each other in several battle scenes.
Then we come to the video.
Plot: The plot of the film sounds nice, but it's actually very simple: the aliens raided, the Earth army was defeated, and the protagonist's team turned the tide and solved an alien "command center" easily. The worst thing to say is that the plot sucks! But for such a sci-fi war movie, how bad is the plot? As long as everyone thinks the visual effect is cool, it will be a success.
Sound effects: I watched it in Hall 1 of Cao Yang Cinemas. I have to say that the sound effects of this film are quite good. Basically fighting from the beginning to the end, the ear is constantly filled with the deafening sound of gunfire. In addition, the sound localization of the film is also quite successful in terms of the ejection of bullets and the sound reflection effect of the sewers.
Rationality: Many people think that the aliens in "Battle of Los Angeles" are surprisingly weak. In fact, it is a very unreasonable behavior to discuss the rationality of a sci-fi film. Cannons and magic can coexist, so why do aliens have to outsmart the people on Earth? A weakness is a weakness, anyway, it is easy to make up a story and pull it back.
The plot is compact: To be honest, the rhythm of this film is quite good. Basically, it successfully completed the task of "combat clips make you breathe nervously, and literary drama clips make you breathe out", and the balance is very good. good.
Box office results: The investment line of this film is 70 million US dollars. As of the 17th, the North American market box office score is more than 46 million, and other overseas markets are the same as North America. Basically, the box office champion in the first week was taken away by it. It seems that the investment line is not a big problem. From an economic point of view, this is a profitable movie.
The possibility of a sequel: Personally, I think the possibility of a sequel to this film is not small. First, as a profitable commercial film, there is the possibility of a sequel, and if it makes a lot of money, a sequel will almost certainly happen. And as far as the content of the film is concerned, the strength of the aliens' combat effectiveness makes it hard to believe that this is the main force of an aggressor army capable of star-level travel, and in the film, the tactic of building a bridgehead on the beach is more like a batch of forward troops. In addition, from the perspective of the plot, the content of the film tends to be "escape from Los Angeles" rather than "Battle of Los Angeles", so the protagonist's sentence at the end of the film "Now, let's retake Los Angeles" is enough to make people think about the possibility of a sequel Pleasure...and this ending style is a standard "Hollywood ending" - if you succeed, you can continue to make a sequel. If you don't succeed, it ends like this.
Overall, the film can be regarded as a successful commercial film. Although the exciting atmosphere in the theater can make you dare not come out, and you will be hooked when the scene is over, it will never produce the desire to make you watch it again. The film is more suitable for those 20-40 year old audiences, and the older fans... To be honest, the overly hot sound effects of this film are not suitable for those old fans.
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