Battlefield Los Angeles

What do you have if you take a popular genre of computer game, add an alien menace and stir up with some extremely dodgy dialogue. This is not a bad film, but then its not a great film. Its  Independence day meets Black Hawk down. A noisy two hour diversion from your troubles. Aaron Eckhart  plays the films main hero tasked with saving some civilians caught in the midst of the invasion. The action scenes are loud , brash and confusing and the plot very derivative of other alien invasion films and more importantly games. This movie very much owes its existence to the gamer culture, and judging by the audience I saw it with it has hit their sweet spot.
I could wax on but hey its a war movie , it delivers what the poster's and trailers promise and does it well. But compared to your basic three act structure movie, its just okay. This movie makes Independence Day read like Shakespeare.