Battleship

Movie: Battleship

Genre: alien invasion

Synopsis: During some multi-national naval war games off of Hawaii, alien space ships land and place a force field around the islands.  One by one they start destroying all of the ships that are inside the force field bubble.  One of the last surviving ships is commanded by Lt. Hopper (Taylor Kitsch) – only because all of the other officers have been killed.  It is up to him to lead the effort to save the world.

My two cents: This one was a bit of a stretch.  There are soooo many things that just do not make sense.  For example, a sailor yelling to turn left (whatever happened to that whole port and starboard thing).  I don’t want to give too much away, but the way they get one last ship to do battle with the aliens was so unbelievable that I could not get past it.  And the basis for saying this is based on the board game was so thin that I convinced myself that it was not really based on the game – although I subsequently read that it really was.  If all you want are battle scenes between good-guy-humans and bad-guy-aliens, this might do it for you, otherwise – wait for the DVD or HBO.

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