Battle: Los Angeles

Stars: Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Rodriguez, Bridget Moynahan, Ramon Rodriguez, Cory Hadrict, Gino Anthony Pesi | Written by Christopher Bertolini | Directed by Jonathan Liebesman

You would have thought that aliens would have learned their lesson by now. Why when invading earth do they pick on the America first, the largest stockpile of armaments in the world? Battle: Los Angeles features a bunch of pressure-cooker headed aliens short on intelligence, but apparently better armed than we are, who decide to lay waste to one of the most well defended areas on the planet.

With most of La reduced to smoking piles of rubble and burnt out cars in the first 10 minutes, it’s up to Staff Sergeant Nantz (Aaron Eckhart) to lead a team of largely anonymous grunts on a ground mission to rescue some civilians before an incoming airstrike wipes Santa Monica off the map completely.

Alien invasion has...