Battleship

I don't think that this film deserves all the hate, it's a fun film. It's not an art movie or moral drama, but you knew that. It's a fun romp like the Independence Day films. You watch a film like this knowing you've got to suspend belief and not examine the plot too carefully.

Despite the film's light touch, it's got some great actors in it (Liam Neeson, Alexander Skasgård and Jesse Plemmons). A lot of folk are rubbishing Rhianna, but I like her in this, I love her vibe with Ordy.

The film also uses ex veterans in the film, the USS Mo crew and the extras at the physio centre, plus the actor who plays Mick Canales are all wounded veterans (Mick is one of my favourite characters). It's a great family film (not for young children, though). Make sure you watch the bit at the end of the credits. Shame of you, Prime for not streaming that bit!

5.8/10 ? Come on it's not that bad. If you like war, sci fi, alien attacking movies and warships, you 'll find this movie pretty decent. Ok yes, it has a lot of unrealistic things and many plot holes, but beside these it's pretty fun and enjjoyable.

I based my initial opinion on the IMDb score and from the odd critic review when this was released. I watched this last night and was pleasantly surprised. its a lot better then I expected. I wont go into detail about the plot etc as its in the summary. the only actors I knew were Liam Neeson and Rhianna. Rhianna was better then most other singers that attempt acting. I think to put this in perspective I will tell you some of my favourite films as I feel if you also like these you will like battleship: transformers, skyline, matrix, avatar, lethal weapon, die-hard, van damme films, terminator 2. (I couldn't list them all. :-) ) ignore the fact the enemy look like transformer. I think the makers have done well turning a very old, guesswork boardgame into a pretty decent movie.

I'm not sure why everyone is complaining about this movie. It's an action movie - not a deep social commentary or a romantic comedy.

Yeah. It had plenty of implausibilities but so what. Every movie has them.

It was well made, hero's and bad guys who had just enough weapons to be dangerous but not dangerous enough to secure the environment.

But again. This is a feel good, Cowboys & Indians movie.

Well I enjoyed it a lot and I'm kind of hard to please. It simply was not as bad as everyone says it is.

I liked the choice of actors even the two from Friday Night Lights.

The guy who played the injured sailor was pretty funny.

And what's a movie without your resident geek. Check.

A 6-star movie but I gave one additional for fun factor. It has battleships, aliens, explosions and cheesy effects. What can ask for more to spend a saturday night?