Well anyway...if someone remembers it, I will take it down, but it is the strangest thing...
Lets talk about the movie Battleship for a moment...
Directed by Peter Berg
Starring
Taylor Kitsch as Lieutenant Alex Hopper
Alexander Skarsgård as Commander
Stone Hopper (Alex's older brother)
Rihanna as Gunner's Mate Second Class
Cora Raikes
Brooklyn Decker as Samantha "Sam"
Shane
Liam Neeson as Admiral Terrance Shane
(father of Samantha Shane)
I would have to say that if I were a
movie producer and wanted to be taken seriously by my industry, the
last thing I would proudly extol was the fact that the multimillion
dollar offering that I am making is based on a board type of game
suitable for young children!
Somebody forgot to tell the folks that
put together “Battleship”. Not even the good sense to come up
with another name. Oh and I say put together deliberately. It is
clear that the Battleship people were looking to cash in on the block
buster movie of the summer, Transformers. There are scenes taken
directly out the Transformers movie. What should be even more
embarrassing is the clear references to Battleship! They go so far
as to techno babble it up and call it part of the fire control
system, ahhh, but no, it's the same game! So you can see why it is
so hard to take this movie seriously.
That being the case, the “plot” of
the movie is that Earth has been invaded by creatures that seem to be
a cross between a porcupine and a hairless Mexican Chihuahua. Three
advance ships try to land on Earth, but one hits a very large
communications satellite and is destroyed. The remaining ships,
for the balance of the movie, wreck havoc on the United States fleet
in Hawaii. It would appear that the aliens are trying to contact the
remaining fleet of ships using the large dishes on the island.
Some of this movie is so improbable
that it is impossible to suspend belief. But then some reviewers
have said that this is the worst movie ever is going a bit far for I
have seen many that have been far far worse! That being said, I am
confident in saying that this film is not aimed at an adult crowd,
but towards those that like to experience lots of things blowing up
and gratuitous violence.
That and the fact that it is eerily
like the first and second Transformers movies to the point that you
can confuse the two! So much so that I would say that if you have
seen the first or second Transformers movie, don't bother with this
one, but if you missed those films, this one will not be so bad.
The extras are pretty good. I really
shows how much these people went through to get this film made.
You can't fault them for an honest try
all but the original idea which is truly a faulty idea.
I would rate the movie a seven because
of execution and the extras are an 8, lots of good stuff in there but
it lacks some of the features that I have come to expect in extra,
like a good running commentary.
So that gives us a movie rating overall
of 15 and an average of 7.5 which I think is fair. Borrow it if you must, rent it if you have to, but buy it? nope!
