Skylines

Absolutely awesome low budget alien sci-fi franchise. This one is as good as the first film. Loved the post credit scenes, that's great "stay-at-home" entertainment.

The whole premise to the trilogy is pretty good and the first two are enjoyable. However, Lindsey Morgan is a poor poor lead, she was rotten in The 100 and that was truly horrific TV so having her be the lead in a movie is too much. Alexander Siddig is his usual class and tries to offer some credibility but to no avail. As for Rhona Mitra, she scared the bejeezus out of me, they should have her play the 'bad guy'.

I don't really remember the first two movies, but I know I liked them. I rated them both 8 stars. This, though, was so bad for so many reasons that I could barely watch it. Frank Grillo is out of this one, replaced with his daughter, played by Lindsey Morgan. Now she wasn't bad, but she wasn't great either. Add to the roster some known actors like Rhona Mitra, James Cosmo and Alexander Siddig, but only for a few badly acted scenes. Probably the only positive thing in the whole film was Daniel Bernhardt, who has a larger role, even if a cardboard character. At least he did some fight scenes and had some dialogue.

The worst thing is the characters. I couldn't care less about any of them. The most sympathetic character was probably the Matriarch, played by a guy, not confusing at all, and he/she/it is the bad alien boss! And the story was as lazy as the characters, telegraphing every "twist" that one could see coming for miles.

Bottom line: a really boring and pointless film. A shameful stain on the franchise, which is now pretty much defunct.

It's fifteen years after the alien invasion and five years after the invasion fleet was destroyed. Rose Corley feels guilty for her failures despite being ultimately victorious. The new military tracks her down and recruits her on a dire mission to the aliens' home planet. The human Pilots are reverting back to their destructive alien self and they need a thingamajig from alienaplace to fix the thingamabob.

I am utterly surprised that this franchise seems to be going full bore. The original is not the worst start to a franchise but it is undoubtedly a B-movie. Its bigger world construction has issues. For an one-off movie, a lot of that can be overlooked. As the sequel shows, the franchise intends on building on that construction. This is the third movie in the series and it seems to be doubling down with a healthy budget. Quite frankly, it may serve the franchise to pull back to do a smaller story. Going to another planet is not a smaller story. It's a hard thing to pull off and the third act is a mess. The movie is split into two locations and neither is that compelling. The trailer park could be a good small B-movie but this one insists on doubling up. All of that is to find a stupid looking egg. It makes the movie look stupid.

The third instalment of the Skyline series is not as bad or as great as some reviewers are saying. Some of the dialogue is pretty bad, but the acting is OK and the effects aren't terrible. You could watch a lot worse.