 Tagline: Prepare for battle, prepare to go psychlo! Loaded with edge-of-your-seat action and extremely cool special effects, “Battlefield Earth” creates a totally new style of science fiction filmmaking. Earth: It is the year 3000. Man is an endangered species. This original and innovative saga of alien conquest and human rebellion is filled with humor, adventure and jeopardy, mixed with special effects that are completely real, combined together for an explosive and highly-entertaining movie that will leave you exhausted! In a role as you’ve never seen him, John Travolta stars as the cruelly destructive Terl (Alien Security Chief of Earth); Barry Pepper is Earth’s fiery rebel leader, Jonnie Goodboy Tyler, and Forest Whitaker as Terl’s hilarious and deceptive assistant, Ker. Storyline: In the year 3000, humanity is no match for the Psychlos, a greedy, manipulative race on a quest for ultimate profit. Led by the seductive and powerful Terl, the Psychlos are stripping Earth of its resources, using the broken remnants of humanity as slaves. What is left of the human race has reverted to a primitive state, believing the invaders to be demons and technology to be evil. After humanity has all but given up any hope of freeing themselves from alien oppression, a young man named Tyler decides to leave his desolate home high in the Rocky Mountains to discover the truth, whereupon he is captured and enslaved. It is then that he decides to fight back, leading his fellow man in one final struggle for freedom. Written by Cheeseycom Cast Notes: John Travolta (Terl, Psychlo Chief of Security), Barry Pepper (Jonnie Goodboy Tyler), Forest Whitaker (Ker), Kim Coates (Carlo), Richard Tyson (Robert the Fox), Sabine Karsenti (Chrissy), Michael Byrne (Parson Staffer), Christian Tessier (Mickey), Sylvain Landry (Sammy), Christopher S. Aud (Processing clerk), Shaun Austin-Olsen (Planetship), Earl Pastko (Bartender), Michel Perron (Rock), Michael MacRae (District Manager Zete), Todd McDougall (Psychlo wrangler). User Comment: Zoe • Actually, was anyone involved with this all-out disaster thinking at all? My personal guess: no, and if they were, I'd rather not know about what. None of the reviews have done BE justice. Having heard what a start to finish mess this was, my brother and I decided to watch it, just for fun. Wow, it was plain unbelievable. Horrible beyond all our expectations. I can now tell anyone who's interested: You must see this for yourself to realize the sheer magnitude of its badness. I hear this movie cost about 70 million dollars. Since it did not feel as if it cost that much, we also worked out how the budget was allocated: * Travolta's salary, plus assorted managers and hangers on: 40 million. * Special effects, film, sets, costumes, makeup and hair extensions: 25 million. * all other salaries: 4,999,888 $. * script: $112 and change. Though that still doesn't begin to explain the end result. I give up. I'll never understand how Travolta managed to get BE made, or released, for that matter. Why is he tanking his career again? Who knows? After this, why should anyone care? Ah, well. I hope he finds something better to act in in the future. I never thought I'd give anything a 1, but this is indeed as worthy a candidate as I've ever seen. So, * is my vote, and I'd rate it lower if it were possible. Wow. Watch and learn. Summary: What were they thinking? IMDb Rating (08/03/14): 2.4/10 from 58,523 users IMDb Rating (11/23/08): 2.3/10 from 32,388 users Bottom 100: #94 IMDb Rating (09/29/01): 2.3/10 from 6,065 users
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