Battle of Los Angeles is a science fiction action comedy film by The Asylum, which premiered on the Syfy cable TV channel on Saturday March 12, 2011 at 8:00 p.m. EST and was released to DVD the following Tuesday. The film is directed by Mark Atkins and is a mockbuster of the Columbia Pictures film Battle: Los Angeles, which is inspired by the events of the Great Los Angeles Air Raid of 1942. The film's premise is closely related to Independence Day. The official trailer uses clips from other Asylum film War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave. In February 1942, U.S. armed forces defend Los... Angeles from unidentified flying objects. Seventy years later, the alien invaders return to finish the attack. In the opening scene, a large alien spaceship arrives and hovers over Los Angeles. A fighter squadron is scrambled, but the aircrafts' missiles veer off their flightpaths because of a countermeasure signal being broadcast by the ship. The squadron is destroyed by the alien ship, but a female pilot named Lt. Solano is the sole survivor when she successfully bails out of her plane. Smaller alien craft suddenly attack a military base near Los Angeles. U.S. Marine Lt.
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| Release date: | 2011 |
| Directed by: | Mark Atkins |
| Runtime: | 90 Minutes |
| Genre: | Thriller, Science Fiction, Action |