Don't read this and then get upset about the spoilers. This post contains spoilers.
Let me keep this brief since it's late. This movie was one cliche after another. If you cross "Aliens" with "Saving Private Ryan", add a touch of "Independence Day" -- you've got Battle for LA.
Although mildly entertaining when taken for what it is (a fluffly popcorn film), this film is almost a parody of the genre.
When a civilian does something heroic, make sure you cue the overly-dramatic string music - check.
After killing an alien, shout out an insult at it's dead body - check.
Make an early reference to an "alien command & control centre"; guess where the climax of the film will be? ...
Despite being in a war zone and having an RPG explode in the SAME ROOM, you can jump back up and fight and communicate with your squad mates - check.
The end scene where they go back in after 24 hours of battle, refusing to stop and eat breakfast -- I'm sure I've seen this exact scene in another film.
Hokey dialogue, including saying to a young boy, "You're the bravest little Marine I've ever known" - check.
And why did they count down to the bombs dropping, using the wall clock that was in the wrecked building they happened to be in at the time? To the second?! Why would that wall clock be synchronized to atomic or military time? It doesn't make sense. Use your damn wristwatches, if anything.
Incidentally the gratuitous product placement of G-Shock "Mudman" wristwatches was the only plausible and sensible part of the entire film.
Just my opinions anyway.
-Gray
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