![]() The City of Los Angeles has been destroyed so many times in recent years - perhaps as wishful thinking on the part of cynical movie-industry people, perhaps as superstitious inoculation against the real thing - that “Battle” feels a bit like the routine training mission its characters first think they are being called up for. Eckhart’s chin, and as lean and square as his jaw. Considered as an alien-invasion science-fiction allegory, it’s about as deep as the dimple on Mr. ![]() Until that moment the movie, directed by Jonathan Liebesman from a screenplay by Christopher Bertolini, has proceeded in the expected, large-scale combat-action movie fashion. “Let’s figure out how we’re gonna get out of this mess,” Aaron Eckhart says with about 40 minutes to go in “Battle: Los Angeles.” An excellent idea, and the solution that presents itself is a simple one: stop talking.
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