Video Capsule Review

BATTLEFIELD EARTH

John Travolta, Barry Pepper (2000, Warner, 119 mins., PG-13, also on DVD)

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Rated: PG-13; Genre: Sci-fi; With: Barry Pepper and John Travolta; Distributor: Warner Bros.

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By Marc Bernardin

Marc Bernardin

There's so much to say about Travolta's sci-fi dud -- the vanity project to end all vanity projects -- and so many opportunities to detail the myriad ways it went wrong, that to do so would be a waste of space. Let's just hope that as time goes on, some enterprising extraterrestrials don't get their hands on this dim-witted aliens-conquering-humans drivel and figure that any race that would produce a movie this bad deserves to be wiped out. D-

Posted Feb 09, 2001

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