What a waste of my time!!!

Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Brilliant and touching

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Wow. BOLA is bad...incredibly bad. Jaw-droppingly bad. I think the movie is intended to be campy. I hope it was intended to be campy. If not, everyone involved with it should re-examine his or her career expectations.The special effects look like they were done on an Amiga, which means they would have been very impressive 30 years or so ago. The production seems to have expended at least half of its meager SFX budget at a fireworks stand.The plot is incomprehensible, the dialog amateurish. At one point in BOLA, the "good guys" are driving around in some hulk of a military vehicle in a supposedly EMP-ravaged world. (I think EMP is the problem; I may have missed something during one of the times my eyes glazed over.) Anyway, one of the characters asks Nia Peeples, "How is this thing even running." Peeples looks back over a shoulder and states simply, "Vacuum tubes." At some point in the movie, Peeples acquires an eye patch but carries on as if she hadn't just traumatically lost what is physiologically a component of her brain. She may have lost another part of her mind as demonstrated by doing this movie. I guess work is work, but this work is in sharp contrast to her short-lived salad days on Fox. That's a shame; she's someone that you want to see do well.There were a couple of alien hovercrafts whose SFX presence wasn't utterly horrible, but they appeared dated. They definitely weren't 21st century level.Don't confuse this movie with "Battle Los Angeles" which came out at nearly the same time. That one was bad; this one is OMG horrible. The producers probably managed to pick up a few sales from mistaken identity. Shame on them. This movie's only hope is to become a cult classic for stoners and other impaired people.I'm pretty sure that there are no spoilers here. Doesn't a movie have to have a plot to have a spoiler? I watched this last night and can't remember now how it ended. Time is sometimes merciful.

The title of my review is actually a lie. I gave this a 2 because I much enjoyed criticizing and laughing at this "film" with my fiancé. I will admit that I started watching this after 15 minutes of the film had already passed, but NOTHING in that 15 minutes can justify or make up for the cluster-f$&k of massive awfulness. I'm not sure how, but it took me a good half hour to realize that one of the characters was indeed long forgotten Kel Mitchell from All That and Good Burger. When I did realize it I was gasping for air with all the laughing. The special effects actually DO leave you speechless, because they make no sense. The best scene is when the final trio of characters are sprinting to the alien ship, and while inside another alien aircraft tries to blast the ship, and you get to see the exact same pieces of debris flying a good 10 times or so. Oooo and the final scene where the ship is crashing....priceless. You get to see the samurai chick gain an eye-patch in between scenes for no reason. Eh, that's enough for this review....it deserves a 1/10 but I was entertained so I was generous with a two. If you enjoy laughing at complete stupidity then check this movie out.

Because this movie could not hold my full attention, I may have blinked a little too often and missed a few things: like a coherent plot, character development, the reason one of the main characters was dressed the ridiculous way she was (and carries a Japanese sword instead of a gun)etc. It is my impression that the director must have owed some favors (or had a "diversity" agenda), because there was an inordinate percentage of female fighter pilots; and after the first 45 minutes of this movie, NONE of the remaining military characters were white males.This was the first review I've ever written for IMDb; but I felt compelled to warn prospective viewers. The only other feature-length movie I've ever seen that was lamer than this one was "Attack Force" with Steven Seagal.

Mockbuster means it is a cheesy takeoff of a popular movie and that is what you get in this straight to video and SF Channel takeoff of Battle: Los Angeles. If you were expecting the also cheesy bad latter film which actually had a decent budget nearly all of the other reviewers here express your disappointment. The Asylum group specializes in these knockoffs and this is actually one of their best efforts (damning with very faint praise.) This video combines Skyline and Battle: Los Angeles with Independence Day and tosses in a few throwaway references to ET and Kill Bill among other movies. I would recommend this for bad movie night except it has too many slow stretches. Bad acting and very cheap special effects and screwed up technical details characterize these type of films. This video actually has a plot but it doesn't make much sense so don't do the comparison to bad porn with no naked bodies. Young viewers who like cheap SF and get the other movie references might sit through this movie.