In that way, this movie is a bit of a tease the viewer is never pulled in the way the filmmakers want him to be. Take away the interactivity, and it's a considerably less entertaining experience.
For a while, it's fun, but immersion is born of involvement. Watching Battle Los Angeles is akin to observing someone else play a video game with top-notch production values. If the goal is to unveil a coherent narrative, it does not. If the intent is to convey to the viewer the chaos and disorientation that occurs in the middle of a pitched battle, Battle Los Angeles succeeds. It also means confusion resulting from an overreliance on hand-held cameras. That means a lot of shooting, enough explosions to make Michael Bay happy, and a fair amount of dying. Of the roughly 110 minutes of non-credits screen time accorded to the story, about 90 of those are taken up by a "you are there" perspective of firefights with aliens.
Nevertheless, the movie is likely to miss the mark for anyone in search of something more than a noisy, kinetic way to spend a couple of hours. Perhaps it's a backhanded compliment to acknowledge that, as would-be "event" films about alien invasions go, Battle Los Angeles is superior to both Independence Day and Skyline.
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