Battle: New York, Day 2 (2011)

That was an excellent one.

Better Late Then Never

A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Let's be honest my expectations were low but they were not achieved. I presume this is a student film that has been released in the hope of securing funding for future film projects. As such any producers or companies out there wishing to invest please think again and maybe donate to the Fund for the Conservation of the Dodo, your money will go to less waste.It's hard to blame the actors who work with a script that has been obviously written using a piece of script generation software from a bargain bin in a supermarket. At times the script does work, in particular when it is covered over by the noisy clicks of the microphone being moved. This is when the script is at it's best. Along with when the actors aren't speaking at all.The effects are particularly impressive using a technique known as 'Shit'. One shot of a body riddled with holes is so obviously an actor laying under a sheet of plastic with bullet holes painted on. This would be classed as genius if it weren't so horribly ineffective. The giant wheels are actually probably the only moderately good special effect in the film with a couple of 'money' shots ($2 each I guess) being passable. However most of the other shots are just magnified close ups of spinning wheels.Now on to the bad bits and I will write these as instructions from a non-film maker to a group of film makers: Showing someones feet running down a sidewalk for 2 minutes every 5 minutes does not convey empty streets, it conveys a sidewalk. Why did you not just close another street using yellow tape and show a long shot but next time hide the yellow tape! A close up someones eyes does not give the impression of fear. What it put in my mind was...she's now got more make up on despite being in the middle of 'Invasion of the Spinning Wheels' Sticking a drill bit onto the end of a piece of sprayed grey plastic is probably not as terrifying as it reads. Actually it doesn't read particularly terrifying either.Zombies are not made more terrifying by having them hold their hands up and making their hands into claws by bending their fingers...while gurgling.Showing The Statue of Liberty 6 miles away across water with tourists milling about it does not make me feel like this is an invasion of New York. It makes me think its an invasion of the docks near New York.So in conclusion, and specifically to the film makers. Well done, nice try and let's be honest you gave it a go. Now go off and get nice little jobs as supervisors in supermarkets or accountants but please if you want to work in the film industry could I suggest....ushers?

There's no "Battle." Giant gyroscopes roll around the empty back streets of what's supposed to be New York City, grab the few remaining humans by the throat and drill holes in their heads, after which they all make noises like a speed metal vocalist. I can see you're already intrigued! Well you can't go wrong with special effects by the McNeil Middle School kids. And let's face it, you'd have to recruit at 3AM from every Waffle House in Crowley, LA (there's one by the way) to find a group of thespians this talented. And evil gyroscopes from outer space? Gotta admit, no one has gone there before, and we hope they never will again.

I was at a friends house and he was watching this, After 15 minutes, surprised I lasted that long, I made an excuse to leave early. Other friends were not so lucky they got stuck watching the whole thing, they later rang and abused me for not giving them an out as well.. I will not even call it a MOVIE. The Machines, big ugly Gyroscopes, had no big effect to the show and should have been left out all together. From what they told me the Zombies were worst than the original George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead zombies. The so called nanobots they kept talking about would have been more believable if they showed from time to time an internal view of a persons body as it slowly became the victim and thus lose control of their body, this would at least have given an insight to what the producer was trying to imply instead of one minute normal, next blood dripping from the eye sockets and chasing after blood.

Give me a good laptop computer, an HD camera and a few students from the local primary school, and I can make a better movie than this. The animation looks like something created on an Amiga 500, the story has neither head nor tail, and the actors ... Well, I'd better not comment them at all.This movie is so bad that it is torture for your eyes and your mind.Save yourself the torture and use your time and money on something more sensible. This movie is undoubtedly one of the worst ever created, and does not even deserve one star..