Appalling.

| Jun 3, 2015

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

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

With this journey into the heart of rubbish, this full-throttle adventure into the hyper-space of drivel, Travolta not only incinerates what is left of his own reputation, but takes someone else down with him.

| May 28, 2013

Not so much watched as lived through, Battlefield Earth is bad enough to make audiences ashamed to be part of the same species as the people who made it.

| May 28, 2013

With this kind of epic ineptitude -- hell, the flick is set in the year 3000 -- you go for "worst of the millennium."

Full Review | May 28, 2013

One of the darkest, ugliest, most uninvolving and incomprehensible major-studio fantasies I've ever seen.

| Original Score: 0/4 | May 28, 2013

Here is a picture that will be hailed without controversy as the worst of its kind ever made. It could be renamed Ed Wood's Planet of the Apes if that title didn't promise more cheesy fun than the movie actually delivers.

| May 28, 2013

The worst movie in living memory.

| May 28, 2013

The director is Roger Christian, who, if early audience response is anything to go by, would do well to flee the country under an assumed name.

| May 28, 2013

Battlefield Earth is like taking a bus trip with someone who has needed a bath for a long time. It's not merely bad; it's unpleasant in a hostile way.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | May 28, 2013

Worst example of vanity filmmaking in years.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 30, 2010

Pretty much the Showgirls of sci-fi shoot-'em-ups.

Full Review | Mar 26, 2009

This 117-minute adaptation of an 800-page SF adventure for teenagers seems like a miscalculation on multiple levels.

| Jan 6, 2007

Travolta, it seems, had wanted to star in a film of Battlefield Earth since first reading the novel in 1982. Only the all-seeing L Ron knows why.

| Jan 26, 2006

It doesn't help that the film's premise, which sees stoneage cavemen turn into ace fighter pilots with only a week's training, is as naive as that of the 1939 serial Buck Rogers.

| Dec 2, 2002

No, it doesn’t rise to the appalling heights of awfulness of such legendary mega-bombs as Ishtar or Burn Hollywood Burn. It hasn’t the wit.

| Original Score: F | May 8, 2002

Ah, it ain't really that terrible.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 19, 2002

A botched adventure that looks suspiciously like any number of other sci-fi tales you will have seen, and pales instantly by the comparison.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 17, 2001

Deeply dumb, depressingly derivative and just plain nonsense.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000