Critical reaction

"Battlefield Earth has the feel of a movie made by a precocious 8-year-old with access to too many leftover costumes from Clan of the Cave Bear and Star Trek: The Next Generation."

- Arne Johnson, Citysearch

"The plot depends on the most ludicrous decisions and senseless actions ever made by a thinking race."

- Sean Axmaker, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

"...a picture that will be hailed without controversy as the worst of its kind ever made."

- David Edelstein, Slate

"...like taking a bus trip with someone who has needed a bath for a long time... something historic, a film that for decades to come will be the punch line of jokes about bad movies."

- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

"...breathtakingly awful in concept and execution... trite, befogged and dorky... glowering, humorless, clumsily rendered."

- Rita Kempley, Washington Post

"...an authentic howler of the Big Dumb and Loud school..."

- Ron Weiskind, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"...the greatest White Zombie-GWAR music video ever... If filmmaking has ever been less thrilling and more disengaging, I'd like to see it."

- Wesley Morris, San Francisco Examiner

"...even by Hollywood's titanic standards, 'Battlefield Earth' stands out as an example of blind hubris and folly... how could such a movie happen?"

- Sharon Waxman, Washington Post