After watching Battle: Los Angeles you may realize that you've already seen this movie. This films borrows heavily from similar movies like Independence Day and Black Hawk Down, but it does so in an insulting way. No one is saying that Independence Day was some sort of master piece, but most people can agree they enjoyed it. And if you were expecting a sense of destruction on an immense scale then the trail fooled you just like so many others out there. While watching the movie you get the impression that nothing is going on outside of the small battles the main characters are involved in. Despite the fact that within Battle:Los Angeles all of SoCal is being torn apart by aliens who look like a suspicious mix of Gears of War and Independence Day alien bad guys.
Do not be fooled by this movie, it's not Black Hawk Down with aliens although, its creators probably wish it were.