if you be alive in the year 2000 and you probably remember the anguished scream of moviegoer all over the world upon the release of this cinematic abomination . you have probably hear people say thing like it the bad film ever . no and forget the phantom menace this one even bad . and it taste like burn . and stuff and which may lead you to wonder represent be battlefield earth really as bad a all that . be it really such an abhorrent pile of horse crap . the answer to that be yes . yes it be . but i hear you say the special effect be ok. it have action and stuff and and i know john travolta be way up himself and but he can act and can not he . now and i ought to make it clear that what you see on the screen at any give time be never that bad . the acting be passable and a be the special effect and a be the set . the atrocity commit in battlefield earth come from behind the camera . the directing be nothing short of abysmal . so much so that i honestly do not know where to start . combine yawn o matic cliché with pioneer new innovation in crapness and you will be lucky not to pinch a nerve in your neck a you constantly adjust to the fact that almost every shot be take at a tilt . slow motion be overemployed in the action scene to ensure that you definitely know that you be see something very dramatic . wipe transition take far long than god and or indeed satan ever intend . on to the story . nothing make sense . there be plot hole here that you could drive a lorry through . however and i would not go in to detail because these be best discover a you watch . indeed and the story be so bad that i actually find myself pity the cast . there be barry pepper ( jonnie ) act his sock off and take it all terribly seriously and seemingly oblivious to the fact that the script be irredeemable . seriously and the dialogue be so hilariously unnatural that i must toff my hat to him and the rest of the cast for not collapse in to fit of uncontrollable laughter . but what of john travolta . well and he camp thing up a the delightfully evil terl and and he do not deliver a single line without leave teeth mark all over the scenery . wonderful . all in all and battlefield earth be so bad that it good . the whole thing be so utterly abysmal that you will be spellbind and wait to see if it can possibly get any more ridiculous . and trust me and battlefield earth doesn not disappoint . so go see it . it really be something so awful a to inspire a perverted sort of admiration . you will love it . or maybe you will lose the will to live another day . either way and it an unforgettable experience .