Battle: Los Angeles

Wants to be Black Hawk Down with aliens. But the script never expounds upon who the aliens are, what they want, or how to kill them. Remember in Predator? The discoveries? “It can’t see me if I’m covered in mud.” None of that here. One guy hits an alien on the left side and that enough for the grunts to conclude, “That must be where the heart is!” Another guy just guesses, a stab in the dark, “They must want our water!” Shouldn’t there be a scientist, a Jeff Goldblum type, to explain all of this? There isn’t. Well-filmed, hand-held battle scenes don’t necessarily yield an interesting movie.