Battleship
2012 Directed by Peter Berg
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The Battle for Earth Begins at Sea
An international naval coalition becomes the world's last hope for survival as they engage a hostile alien force of unimaginable strength called The Regents who attempt to invade Earth to build a power source in the ocean. Lieutenant Alex Hopper (Taylor Kitsch) is assigned to the ship USS John and winds up commanding the team responsible for repelling the invaders before it's too late. In the daunting mission, Hopper must also try to live up to the potential his brother Stone (Alexander Skarsgård) and his fiancée's father, Admiral Shane (Liam Neeson), expect of him.
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Made me wish a comet would fall from the sky and obliterate the world. A species that spends $200m on this SHITE deserves to become extinct
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Battleship has the dubious distinction of being the first blockbuster that is actually worse than its Asylum Studios budget knock-off. The fact that rip-off, American Warships, is verging on the unwatchable illustrates just how woeful this worthless cash generator is. Yet who could have predicted that a movie based on a board game would be this weak and devoid of character? Oh, that’s right, we all did. The fact that this turned out to be a cynically produced gung-ho military fetish film is far from surprising; the fact it is devoid of even guilty entertainment sadly is.
For a film as inherently silly as this you’d hope the people making it would at least be in on the joke. However,…
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I respectfully refuse to believe that Michael Bay did not direct this film.
Screened at home via Blu-Ray.
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I feel this movie is not as much about an alien invasion as it is about an inability to complete the phrase "mother-fucker" without being interrupted by a cut-away.
I can't tell if it's terrible or terrible at intending to be terrible.
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Bad direction, awful acting and a dire script, Battleship is meant for one thing only, to cash in on the success of Hasbro's other franchise to film hopper, Transformers. Sure, if you enjoy explosions, bad dialogue ("they're not gonna' sink this Battleship..."), and Rihanna (who doesn't?!) this could of been somewhat entertaining, however as it stands not even Liam Neeson (playing the same character he portrays in every other film he's been in) could save this film. Battleship is one of the funniest films released in a while accept there's no comedy in it, the film is just a joke in itself.
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Battleshit.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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Late-night cable randomness. It was ridiculous, but I watched the whole thing.
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Obviously it's rubbish, but it was fun rubbish!
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The thing that made this bearable was saying, "you just sunk my [destroyed object]!" after every explosion. But even that got boring after twenty minutes.
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I thought I'd give it a second try. Admittedly, I did enjoy it more the second time round - probably partly due to the fact that this was my copy and not a LoveFilm copy that decided to screw up an hour into the film, making me wait a few days until I could watch the end! Its still not a great film, but it's a bit of enjoyable fun :)
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Hahahahhahaahhahahahahhaha. I always hated the game Battleship, so the fact that the movie is god awful was, if anything, a confirmation of my excellent taste in children's board games (Candyland FTW).
I legit thought this was a Michael Bay movie. Also, there is a serious lack of shirtless Taylor Kitsch.
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In my honest opinion, this is how to make a summer blockbuster action movie. It's fun. Good cast (for the most part). Good, fun plot. Awesome CGI. And one VERY fun way to waste 2 hours. Sometimes you just want to be entertained and chill for a while, this is the type of film where you can sit back, forget about everything, stuff your face and have a laugh.
My only complaint is that it didn't do very well in the cinema and it's HIGHLY unlikely to receive a sequel, which for me, sucks!
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Bland but harmless entertainment.
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One of the worst movies I've seen.