Review – Battlefield Earth

I didn’t hate this as much as I’d expected to. Now, don’t get me wrong. It’s plenty stupid, with more than its share of uninteresting characters, boring plot twists and hammy acting. In short, it’s your standard, run-of-the-mill, sci fi effects vehicle. However, I went into it expecting a heapin’ helpin’ of source novel author L. Ron Hubbard’s home-grown religion. Especially after Star Trek: Insurrection turned out to be such a Scientology sermon, I figured Hubbard’s own work would be a natural source of such sanctimonious preachiness. To be sure, some of the religion’s tenets show up here and there. But overall this is mostly just a harmless piece of mediocre science fiction. Mildly amusing