¨Warning red, weapons tight, I want everything
loaded.¨
Battleship has proven that it will be very
difficult to compete with the high quality standard that The Avengers left for
this year`s Summer movies. Battleship really disappoints although honestly I
wasn’t expecting much from the film. There are some good actors in this movie,
but the script is just so cheesy that even Liam Neeson looks bad in this. The
story has its numbing entertaining moments thanks to all the special effects,
but it is just another Transformers 3 all over again (as the trailer proudly
announces). Battleship is directed by Peter Berg, the man who brought us The Rundown
and Hancock, and who is responsible for the successful TV series Friday Night
Lights. He has made some interesting projects in the past, but this film really
doesn’t work despite all the great visuals and explosions going on. The
greatest problem the film has is the script which was written by Erich and Jon
Hoeber who haven’t had success in the past with neither Whiteout nor Red. This
move also marks the debut of Rihanna as an actress and she does what she can
with the little she was given. Overall this is a forgettable movie and I would
rather play the game then watch the film again. Saying that Battleship is based
on the Hasbro game is like saying Saving Private Ryan was based on RISK.
Stone (Alexander Skarsgard) and Alex Hopper
(Taylor Kitsch) might be brothers, but they are very different. Stone is a
Commander in the NAVY, while Alex hasn`t found his calling in life and is
sleeping in his brother`s couch. After Alex finds himself in trouble once again
Stone decides to enlist him in the NAVY in order for him to mature. Alex
becomes a Lieutenant, but is always causing trouble despite his potential, and
Admiral Shane (Liam Neeson) has already announced that after the Naval war
games exercise he will discharge him from the NAVY. Alex also happens to be
dating the Admiral`s daughter, Sam (Brooklyn Decker), but can`t find the way to
tell him that he is planning on marrying her. Some of the other officers in
Stone`s ship are Weps Raikes (Rihanna), The Beast Lynch (John Tui), and Jimmy
(Jesse Plemons). During the international war games exercise where fleets from
all over the world have come to Hawaii they find themselves threatened by an
alien armada invasion. In the line of fire, these men will do what they can to
save the world from extinction after the aliens have proven they are here to
wipe them out.
The main character in this film is played by
Taylor Kitsch, who still hasn’t found his break out performance after the huge John
Carter box office failure. He is still mostly known for his role in Friday
Night Lights. Alexander Skarsgard is also known for his role in the TV series
Trueblood, so there truly isn’t a movie star in this film considering Liam
Neeson has a very small role in this. These relatively unknown television
actors (unless you’re a fan of either TV series) do what they can with the poor
material they were given to work with. They aren`t to blame as to why the movie
doesn’t really work. The film takes a while to pick up and there are several unnecessary
scenes, like the one where the American NAVY crew is playing soccer against the
Japanese; it was just awful. The entire movie felt like a NAVY propaganda
telling everyone that if you want to have fun then you should enlist in the
NAVY. There isn’t much more to this movie than that so don’t expect too much.
This could rank alongside other films with good visuals but no story like
Transformers 3 and Battle Los Angeles.
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