So heavy and lifeless that you keep waiting for those three little front-row kibitzers from "Mystery Science Theatre 3000" to appear at the bottom of the screen to start goofing on it.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Andy Seiler
The script, based on a novel by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, is deeply dumb, depressingly derivative (ripping off "Planet of the Apes" the most) and just plain nonsense.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Andrew O'Hehir
Shot after shot photographed at wobbly, off-center angles for no particular reason, weigh every action sequence down with super-slo-mo in lame imitation of "The Matrix" or end every single scene with a vertical wipe.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
Just a lumbering, poorly photographed piece of derivative sci-fi drivel, full of grunting extras scampering around in animal pelts and more dank, trash-strewn sets than I ever care to see again.Read Full Review »
The dialogue is inane, the acting wooden, and Roger Christian's directing choices are a lesson in sci-fi film cliché.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
Let's cut to the chase: We're talking "Ishtar of the Apes."Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Rita Kempley
A million monkeys with a million crayons would be hard-pressed in a million years to create anything as cretinous as Battlefield Earth.Read Full Review »
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Slate: David Edelstein
A picture that will be hailed without controversy as the worst of its kind ever made.Read Full Review »
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