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Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: The movie plays like an uglier, Earth-bound Star Wars, interrupted by frequent Psychlo temper tantrums. Read more
Robin Rauzi, Los Angeles Times: In the post-apocalyptic adventure genre, Battlefield Earth makes Waterworld look like a masterpiece. Read more
Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel: Not awful, but pretty bad. A third-string Planet of the Apes meets Star Trek, Battlefield Earth is a largely uninspiring sci-fi adventure with a Swiss-cheese plot. Read more
Keith Simanton, Seattle Times: The only people this film could recruit are members of the rock band Kiss, who, with their high-heeled boots and face paint, might figure they've got a spot if this alien thing ever really came down. Read more
Susan Stark, Detroit News: A noisy, chaotic, sloppily edited and embarrassingly banal and derivative saga. Read more
Tom Maurstad, Dallas Morning News: Battlefield Earth is dumb. Read more
Paul Clinton (CNN.com), CNN.com: What this movie lacks in simple logic, it makes up for in its apparent unintentional campy humor. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: The summer movie season has barely begun and already it has its first 10-ton turkey. Read more
Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: And after about 20 minutes of this amateurish picture, extinction doesn't seem like such a bad idea. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: A truly dire and silly rehash of Planet of the Apes. Read more
Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader: This 117-minute adaptation of an 800-page SF adventure for teenagers seems like a miscalculation on multiple levels. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Battlefield Earth is as relentlessly grim as it is artless, and Elia Cmiral's bombastic score also makes it painful to listen to. Read more
Nathan Rabin, AV Club: Not so much watched as lived through, Battlefield Earth is bad enough to make audiences ashamed to be part of the same species as the people who made it. Read more
Louis B. Parks, Houston Chronicle: This is florid science fiction, low-brow but energetic, complete with cheesy thrills. Read more
Steven Rosen, Denver Post: You don't watch it -- you survive it. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Battlefield Earth is 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 more
Anthony Lane, New Yorker: The director is Roger Christian, who, if early audience response is anything to go by, would do well to flee the country under an assumed name. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: One of the darkest, ugliest, most uninvolving and incomprehensible major-studio fantasies I've ever seen. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Looking back on this film, I can't find anything nice to say about it. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: If you're the kind of sci-fi fanatic who has to see every new futuristic action movie no matter how crummy it is then of course you'll check out Battlefield Earth regardless of how many cheap jokes critics crack at its expense. Read more
Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle: Is it worth seeing once? Sure. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: Here is a picture that will be hailed without controversy as the worst of its kind ever made. It could be renamed Ed Wood's Planet of the Apes if that title didn't promise more cheesy fun than the movie actually delivers. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Logic is in short supply. Burned-out cities have electricity, for example. My favorite: A hangar full of jets, buried under 1,000 years of dust, not only fire up instantly but still have full tanks of gas. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Ah, it ain't really that terrible. Read more
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: The worst movie in living memory. Read more
Nigel Floyd, Time Out: Travolta, it seems, had wanted to star in a film of Battlefield Earth since first reading the novel in 1982. Only the all-seeing L Ron knows why. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Remarkable mainly for rendering the prospect of human extinction inconsequential. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Battlefield Earth saves its scariest moment for the end: a virtual guarantee that there will be a sequel. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Battlefield Earth is like taking a bus trip with someone who has needed a bath for a long time. It's not merely bad; it's unpleasant in a hostile way. Read more