"Now you got three hours to get your ass back before those bombs drop, and make no mistake THEY WILL DROP! with... or without you"
Staff Sergeant Nantz (Aaron Eckhart) is on the verge of
retiring from the US Marines when he gets called back into action one last time
to help repel an alien attack on L.A.
What scientists first suspect to be meteors turn out to be the ships of an
unidentified species of alien who intend to colonise the Earth and drain its
resources. Under the leadership of an untested Lieutenant and with a squad of
Marines who don’t trust him, Nantz must help a band of civilians to escape Santa Monica before it is
blown up by the Air Force.
This is a film with a multitude of problems which start with
the character introductions. For a start there are too many, all introduced
with a minute or two of back story. They are all stock characters which have
been seen a thousand times. We have the guy who’s getting married, the untested
Officer, the guy whose brother was killed, the guy in therapy, the guy from New
Joizey, the guy from Texas and perhaps more unusually the guy from Nigeria who enlisted
for citizenship. I couldn’t tell you any more about the characters than that
and never really cared for any of them. Later they are joined by a female Air
Force (pilot? I think) (Michelle Rodriguez) along with five civilians, three of
which are children.