It remains, genuinely, the worst film produced this century, as of 2020, and it is hard to imagine anything taking its crown any time soon.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 15, 2021

Lives up to the hype. This is the worst movie ever made.

| Original Score: F | Sep 2, 2020

Nothing so entertaining, albeit in none of the right ways, should scrape WOAT status. It's not even one of the 10 worst films from 2000, a distressingly dunderheaded year for movies in general after one of the best ever.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 24, 2020

A disaster of a screenplay meeting dreadfully overdone and under-thought filmmaking.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | May 28, 2020

Everything is preposterous.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 16, 2020

The plot is like a talentless adolescent's attempt to rewrite Spartacus as science fiction.

| Jun 3, 2015

The plot is jumbled and poorly edited, the dialogue laughable, and special effects seldom appear so common. A performance by John Travolta in which he abandons everything that ever made him cool is the rotten cherry on top.

Full Review | Original Score: F | Jun 3, 2015

If you are looking for something to hate and despise, get thee to this movie.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 3, 2015

Plan 9, at least, was a protest against nuclear proliferation --- what the hell is Battlefield Earth about? Is it supposed to be a tribute to man's ingenuity? If so, why is it so shoddily built?

| Jun 3, 2015

Appalling.

| Jun 3, 2015

There are many things to make fun of here.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Jun 17, 2014

A monumentally silly hunk of junk.

| Jun 17, 2014

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.

| Apr 30, 2014

The end result is a science-fiction saga so incoherent, so ugly and so pointless that you have to wonder why Warner Bros, is even bothering to distribute this embarrassment.

Full Review | Apr 30, 2014

One can only hope for John Travolta's sake that his sci-fi epic Battlefield Earth was meant to be an uproarious comedy. If not, everyone connected with it is in deep, deep trouble.

| Apr 30, 2014

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.

| Apr 30, 2014

From any angle this is a very ill-considered project -- an obvious contender for worst film of the year.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Apr 30, 2014

Overall, I liked the movie. I thought it was a good, mindless sci-fi flick with a lot of effects and action.

| Apr 30, 2014

It's got bad acting, atrocious dialogue and plot holes you could fly a Harrier jet through -- but the result is more exasperating than comical.

| Apr 30, 2014

The emphasis placed on indoctrination, enslavement and superior alien intelligence brings the film troublingly close to subliminal propaganda, while the script is so banal you'd have to be brainwashed to enjoy it.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 28, 2013