John
Travolta stars in one of the dumbest science fiction films I've ever
seen. It's the future, and humanity has been taken over by aliens who
are mining Earth's gold, for some reason. Humans have been pushed
back into the stone age, despite living around so much shit that is
still around - like cars, old courses, whole cities, working guns and
planes, etc.
The
aliens seem to have some kind of corporate structure, but at the same
time they're very primal and remind me of Uruk hai but dumber. I
don't know how they've mastered space travel, or even structured
society, as none of them seem to do what the others say, and on all
levels of command they're slacking off of betraying one another all
the time. Everyone in this film are idiots, basically, which is one
of the major problems (that and the terrible concept execution, the
hammy acting/dialogue, and the poor casting).
John
Travolta's character is an alien with a convoluted plan to steal gold
and then get a raise, and get to leave Earth, or fire his boss and
get to leave Earth. I don't know, I tuned out. He wants to leave
Earth, and he's going to secretly mine extra gold to do something for
reasons possibly but not necessarily connected to the leaving Earth
thing.
So
that's the antagonist. The protagonist is a male human who gets made
more clever by Travolta's alien machine so that he can mine gold, I
think. Then he goes to a library and figures out how to fly planes.
Then other things happen, but I've left the room. There are also
other characters.
I
don't think you'd enjoy this movie unless you appriciate ones that
are so bad they're good. I liked it for this, as the entire thing is
played straight, and the few moments of intended comedy are
delightfully cringey. Watched as an actual cohesive story though (or
gods forbid a sci-fi film) it doesn't even begin to hold up.
Battlefield Earth: 7.5