Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: May 12, 2000 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
9
METASCORE
Overwhelming dislike based on 33 Critic Reviews
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0
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4
Negative:
29
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
0
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Simply put, Battlefield Earth is the worst film I've seen in over 10 years, and believe me, that's saying a lot. Read full review
38
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
An underlit, overlong, underwritten and overloud albatross of a movie.
38
Boston GlobeJay Carr
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.
12
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
It's bombastic, chaotic, plodding, visually dreary and patchily written. Read full review
20
Chicago ReaderLisa Alspector
Seems like a miscalculation on multiple levels. Read full review
12
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Awful in so many different ways. Read full review
25
Entertainment WeeklyOwen 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
10
Film.comRobert Horton
The film is Travolta's baby, but indifference and boredom is everywhere. Read full review
0
Film.comSean Means
In the pantheon of cinematic train wrecks, from "Ishtar" to "Waterworld," set a place at the table for Battlefield Earth. Read full review
10
L.A. WeeklyRon Stringer
A stinker. Read full review
0
Los Angeles TimesRobin Rauzi
Compounded by a dated visual style, patched-together special effects and ludicrous dialogue, Battlefield Earth is a wholly miserable experience. Read full review
12
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
A sluggish, soporific dud, the dreariest big-budget science-fiction adventure since "Dune."
0
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
One of the darkest, ugliest, most uninvolving and incomprehensible major-studio fantasies I've ever seen. Read full review
25
New York PostLou Lumenick
Goes from being tediously terrible to downright gigglesome.
10
NewsweekTed Gideonse
The dialogue is inane, the acting wooden, and Roger Christian's directing choices are a lesson in sci-fi film cliché. Read full review
16
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
A ghastly, unappealing mess that lacks a single absorbing character, engaging story line or entertaining snippet of dialogue.
0
Rolling StonePeter Travers
With this kind of epic ineptitude -- hell, the flick is set in the year 3000 -- you go for "worst of the millennium."
30
SalonAndrew 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
12
San Francisco ExaminerWesley Morris
If filmmaking has ever been less thrilling and more disengaging, I'd like to see it. Read full review
0
SlateDavid Edelstein
A picture that will be hailed without controversy as the worst of its kind ever made. Read full review
0
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
It may be a bit early to make such judgments, but Battlefield Earth may well turn out to be the worst movie of this century. Read full review
0
TimeRichard Schickel
The worst movie in living memory.
10
TNT RoughCutJ. Rentilly
The only danger in seeing this film is in busting a gut at its unintentional hilarity.
20
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
The story's broad strokes are painfully clichéd and its details make no sense at all. Read full review
38
USA TodayAndy 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.
20
VarietyDennis Harvey
Yet the overall look, though derivative ("The Matrix," "Blade Runner," "Waterworld," etc.), rates as Battlefield's one non-guilty pleasure. Read full review
20
Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
The movie's mode is brutal and excremental. Read full review
10
Washington PostDesson Thomson
Let's cut to the chase: We're talking "Ishtar of the Apes." Read full review
0
Washington PostRita 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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