A second trailer materialises for Battle: Los Angeles

In a modern era where even television commercials feature expensive-looking CG effects, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for filmmakers to give audiences a genuine sense of awe with mere special effects alone. Call us jaded, but the last time we expressed genuine amazement at the cinema was over the staggering price of popcorn. That, and that extraordinary sequence where the city folded itself in half in Inception.

From the footage we’ve seen so far, Battle: Los Angeles looks as though it may be next year’s equivalent of Christopher Nolan's hit - in terms of pure eye-candy, at least, rather than for its imaginative flights of fancy. It’s alien invasion scenario may be a mind-numbingly familiar one (though, in fairness, you really can’t beat a good alien invasion movie), but in terms of action and sheer scale, Battle: Los Angeles looks genuinely enthralling.

Add the great Aaron Eckhart into the mix, as a foot soldier who views the unfolding invasion at street level, and you’ve got the ingredients for a great sci-fi blockbuster. This second trailer doesn’t give us goosebumps in quite the way the excellent first one did, but Battle: Los Angeles is still one film we can’t wait to see.

Battle: Los Angeles is due to arrive in cinemas on 25 March 2011.

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