Battalion (2018) User Reviews

Worse than you think

[gamedale · 1/10 · 14 January 2018]

I'm a Sci-Fi action fan who didn't expect much from this film, aside from good CGI and somewhat realistic bloody violence that would no doubt occur if anything remotely human finds us one sunny day among the stars.

This movie is being released in 2018, after evidently being filmed on the iPhone of their "chief military advisor", who created his own company to make tax deduction look more realistic in Australia. Or something along those lines, as any other reasoning as to why on Earth this movie is SO BAD just escapes me right now.

Just go watch the good old Battleship with Rihanna, or Beyond Skyline, or Spectral, or even freakin' Kill Command - those are masterpieces compared to this absolutely inexcusable rubbish.

Oh dear...

[fad-38798 · 2/10 · 12 January 2018]

I liked the premise of this film, OK, it's a mish-mash of other science fiction films, but that's no bad thing if done well.

Unfortunately this is not done well.

The dialogue is poor, delivery is worse.

Effects are poor by today's standards.

Acting is one of the better aspects of this film, seriously. However the bar is low.

The story is very confused and the telling, using drawn out boring flashbacks is confusing.

The music reminds me of waiting in an elevator.

Have to admit, about have way through I started to hit the fast forward button. It did not lessen my understanding of the story, nor detract from any sense of drama. I'm pretty certain I didn't miss anything.

I gave it two for effort, while technically failing and wasting an evening, the film has vision, and a crew willing to give it a go.

Totally Unconvincing

[brendoon · 1/10 · 10 January 2018]

I had high hopes that this movie might be a diverting sci-fi action film, but I was very disappointed. It was really quite painful to watch. Especially in the first third of the movie, the unexplained jumping back and forth in the timeline was bewildering. The acting was wooden, and the dialog clumsy. Speeches from the panel of 3 officers, summarizing the action, were totally improbable. In other parts dialog which may have been interesting was lost due to music, sound effects, or plain mumbling. The special effects were mildly interesting, but the spray of bouncy black cgi dots when alien shots hit humans was distracting. The humanoid alien robots seemed to have learned how to walk from R2D2. Did someone really spend $AU 50,000 on this?

"Battalion"? More like "Shittalion"!!

[tjnbarbhewitt · 1/10 · 19 March 2018]

After hearing pretty much mostly negative things about this flick, I wanted to watch it to see if it was that bad. Sure enough, it was. First off, let's start off with the quality. The quality of the movie looks like it was shot on an iPhone, and looks like a high school student movie. Second off, the CGI looks like a PS2 game of some sorts. Third off, the acting is porn quality. And the last thing, did they REALLY need to back away from the camera in the scene when that guy kisses his wife? I think a 10 year old did this. I also felt the point to shut it off. And I did, because it's THAT bad. Seriously, if you want a good war flick, just watch the classic Full Metal Jacket, or Saving Private Ryan.

Worst drivel

[Snootz · 1/10 · 26 January 2018]

This has all the directoral skill, acting ability, script writing, cinematography and flow of a high-school fan film... except we've seen far better fan films. Some of the camera work looks like it came out of the 60s, the acting out of the 70s, and the plot straight out of the "mean aliens" handbook. This doesn't even qualify as schlock; this is people making a movie who have no idea what they're doing. Me giving a film 1-star isn't common-- they have to be total garbage to earn that rating, but this one definitely qualifies. I haven't seen work this bad since... well, I guess I have to give it creds for being uniquely bad of its own right. This might qualify for the SyFy channel... if the company needed a last-minute fill-in and was desperate. But it would damage their reputation.

audio issues

[p-huiskens · 1/10 · 13 January 2018]

Bad cgi , no problem, i can watch through that, but the audio work.... the background sound is so extreme loud, that the bass was going trough the roof when i wanted to hear the people talk. i wasn't able to continue this movie.

Duck!

[senoiprak · 14 January 2018]

Should have check out the reviews here before getting this con job. It's something a Kid made in grade school

Utter rubbish!

[doorsscorpywag · 1/10 · 11 January 2018]

To start with there is no 'Battalion' it's just a few people milling around aimlessly. The uniforms look as if they were purchased from a Poundland store and nobody looks the slightest bit military. If these people are the best we have in an alien invasion then we deserve to be wiped out.

Special effects were pretty poor acting was worse ....far worse . Possibly just people who were passing during filming and were given a part.

Script was non existent and I may have missed something important as I did use the FF button a bit.

The jumping back and forth was done better in 'Alienate' and that movie was utter bilge as well. The final scene was laughable.

If this movie cost more than a tenner to make then they wasted their money.

Poor amateur Scifi film

[serge-tremblay · 1/10 · 20 May 2018]

Worst of the worst. Pure crap. It is not a movie. I don't even know what it is. Poor dialogs, bad actors, bad script, bad production etc.

Not good

[jonhgoldie · 2/10 · 23 June 2018]

Poor effects - which is ok for such a low budget. Poor sets and costumes - for which a poor budget is no excuse. Poor acting. Poor American accents, I mean I think i could do a better Australian accent than these Australians do American accents.

Things didn't exactly make a lot of sense either: Why fly an airliner at the aliens? Did anyone making, acting in or characters in the movie ever see anything military-related? The odds are against it. And what "battalion"?

I gave it an extra star for effort to tell an original story and for not preaching to me. Otherwise not good at all.

A F grade action movie......sorry Sci-fi film!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kashidomar · 1/10 · 11 January 2018]

You can barely watch this....rather can tolerate it.....only 10-20 minutes perhaps you will be able to watch it ...this is a real bad movie...no need to waste time on that. Ignore this one ....It has no science nor any real action...And the story is a nothing one...The acting is pretty funny....it seems that they have no idea about acting. I don't know how the director casted them. But they seem no nothing about acting. So from every side it is not a watchable movie.

Suffer like i did

[lucaxster · 10/10 · 9 December 2018]

I ONLY GIVE 10 STARS BECAUSE I WANT PEOPLE TO THINK ITS A GOOD MOVIE AND THEN SUFFER LIKE I DID. Worst ive seen EVER

Liked it!

[robot0340 · 6/10 · 12 January 2018]

Just because the graphics weren't a 10 million $ production is not reason to trash this movie. If nothing else the story line is very good and keeps one's interest up. I'm sort of picky but I enjoyed watching this movie. Like I said, it's not a big budget movie with Tom Cruise but it's good none the less.

wow

[tavinbori · 1/10 · 13 April 2018]

This people got no shame expecting people to like their movie.i rather sleep than waste minutes of my life watching this garbage

So bad, you can't even give a pity laugh!

[rsvp321 · 11 January 2018]

Nothing! Zero! No redeeming qualities! Quality equal to a high school whim video project. Graphics are about forty years behind.

This is worse than anything 'The Asylum' crap movie producers have ever done.

What a waste of money

[junebug-yankees · 1/10 · 14 May 2018]

I watched the first 10 minutes and stopped watching. All around bad and not sure how it got into a Redbox but I want my money back.

Horrible movie

[mmgonline · 1/10 · 31 January 2018]

Even as an independent film, it could have done much better all the way around. Sound is horrible, acting is horrible, props are horrible, and special effects are horrible.

In the beginning, you see alien craft converging in a war. Though you can & should understand that indie films do not have big budgets, you can always work around it (I work in the production industry myself). Then you'll eventually see a "marine". Props are cheap for gear for military. They don't have NAV's, nor the right kind of setup. Hell, the gun slings are literally strings. Simple 3 point slings with quick detach are only $5-10 bucks. They are also wearing the wrong camo. It appears as its German fleck but I can't really tell because the quality is horrible. Should have stuck with a simple multicam. There is too much to list of what is wrong in the movie, so I'll talk about the acting.

Of course you probably wouldn't have the budget to hire A list actors, but the acting itself, reminds me of simple teenagers and their friends coming together and trying to create a movie. Acting is not fluid at all, movement is not fluid at all. It's like they read their lines, and waited for the other person to read theirs and that's it.

In production, it seems like they just went with pre-production and skipped post. Relatively long scene transitions mix with relatively short scenes cater to an awful watching experience. ADR and sound work was horrible at best. In comparison, I did the ADR work in Mr & Mrs Smith. Check out the elevator scene in that movie. It takes quite some time, but inexpensive, to reproduce the sounds for a complete natural ambient & atmospheric setting. The background music was never suspenseful.

Overall, the movie does not capture excitement or viewer attention. You'll want to turn this movie off 10 minutes into it .

Being generous

[primesuspect-75392 · 1/10 · 16 July 2018]

Whoever designed the cover image deserves an Oscar but the studio cat could have done a better job with the actual film.

Boo !

[terrillj2015 · 1/10 · 13 July 2018]

I've seen bad movies before, but this one ranks right up there with the worst.I wish I had read the reviews before I got it from Redbox. I realized it was bad from the start but kept watching, hoping it would get better. It didn't !!

Take it out of red box.

[davia-33128 · 1/10 · 30 June 2018]

Making it seem like it was a good movie by creating a great cover, don't see how it made it through red box. Didn't get past the first 5 minutes because of how disappointing it was.

Worst film made EVER!

[SpecialWeirdo101 · 1/10 · 17 July 2018]

Well not entirely that, we still have "Monster: The Prehistoric Project" from 2014. Michael Miller as Director/Writer/Producer is a good combination, if the goal is to make a boring and bad movie. The idea is rather good, its just badly written/directed/produced. This is Michael Miller's second attempt on a Sci-Fi movie, and please let it be the last :p The acting is not too bad, atleast the first couple of minutes. They (the actors) looks like they are picked up after their first week on acting school, where they never learned anything.

The CGI and the effects, I cant say they are good, or even close to good. If they was made on a Commodore 64 back in 1982 it would be amazing, today really not so amazing.

IMDb claims that the budget was AUD 50.000 (less than 40000 USD), if thats correct then the movie really are amazing and I would have to give it atleast 5 thumbs up. (would have explained lots about the movie) But I think this is wrong, Michael Miller's last movie had a budget for AUD 550.000 so I assume about the same or more for this.

Barely 1 thumb up

The concept was stupid

[jerryadlington · 1/10 · 23 February 2018]

I do not feel cheated because there were some good moments. The filming was professional. The directors were unsure of what they were doing. Overall a good idea poorly executed.

Differences in movies and the budget used to create them. Its a good movie for being a low budget film!

[theonlytigger · 6/10 · 16 January 2018]

Just because this isn't a high budget movie and is what is called a "B" rated movie it is one of the better "B" rated movies and we watch a lot of them. Its a good "B" Sci-Fi movie would of been a good "A" high budget rated movie too. "The killing of the sacred deer" movie that's another "B" rated movie rates way lower than Battalion's plot and story direction. Currently watching "Blades and Babes" another "B" rated movie and its better than "Viking Siege" we watched last night which is a "B" rated movie it rated in at a 6 too it had a good plo/storyline behind the movie itself. Four of the low budget movies and we see them as a form of art and some of them are really bad but most are pretty good for the money they had to make the movie itself. I helped make a movie in a class i had to take for one of the three degrees i sought out, and the movie it was a "B" rated movie but it had a good plot and direction behind it baxk when I was in college that film was submitted to the Sundance film festival. Look at the low budget movies as art which all films are a type of art, and no matter the budget they are all a form of art. Just because its not a big box movie doesn't mean it won't be worth watching.

Real bad

[prince_vlad · 1/10 · 6 July 2018]

Where do I start...? Bad acting, bad effects (even pc games have today better effects that this ugly movie), bad script, a nonsense from one end to the other. The earthers look like a bunch of idiots and people in charge like other morons, but from the same picture. My friend don't do the mistake of looking to this piece of garbage, do some good deeds with the time you save instead.

TIC

[kenschnauzer-564-833488 · 23 June 2018]

This is crap! Sections of this movie are listed "LA" "Manhattan" etc. If the part of this is suppose to be in in Manhattan, then why is a driver operating a right hand drive vehicle?