Something borrowed

From Peter Suderman’s review of “Battle: Los Angeles”:

Liebesman managed to appropriate a host of familiar scenes and situations from Hollywood’s war-and-invasion oeuvres, but forgot to steal a story or characters worth watching. There are a few clever action gags disbursed throughout, but mostly it’s a mish-mash of meaningless military-movie cliches and copycat conflicts any infrequent moviegoer has seen a half-dozen times before. Despite its title, Battle doesn’t even bother to deliver an authentic Los Angeles; most of the city scenes were shot in Louisiana on account of the state’s generous film subsidies. (Apparently Liebesman is also willing to take money borrowed from taxpayers.)