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The Battles of Coronel and the Falklands screens on 16 October as the before going on general release on 17 October 2014. As part of our ongoing commemoration of the centenary of the First World War, the BFI National Archive has restored ’ 1927 account of two of the most significant maritime encounters of the entire conflict. Complete with a new score performed by the Band of Her Majesty’s Royal Marines, The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands completes Summers’ British Instructional Films trilogy, which had started with the Western Front reconstructions, (1925) and Mons (1926). The Liverpudlian director had seen action as a sergeant in the trenches, with the second of his three decorations for bravery inspiring the epochal play, Journey’s End, which was written by 9th East Surreys comrade, R.C. But Summers achieved similar levels of authenticity with this ambitious naval undertaking, which was partially produced in response to Unsere Emden (1926), German Louis Ralph’s equitable record of another important 1914 engagement, the Battle of Cocos. 10 to try Each of the recommendations included here is in the UK. Working from a screenplay by a quartet of writers that included 39 Steps author, Summers filmed off the Isles of Scilly with the full co-operation of the Admiralty.

Consequently, he was able to invest the action with a scale, immediacy and realism that continued to influence the way in which naval combat pictures were made during and beyond the Second World War. Some directors had to make do with models in water tanks, but a ring of truth still echoes around all 10 titles in this overview of cinema’s bid to capture the unique perils of war at sea. The Sea Hawk (1940) Director Michael Curtiz. San Demetrio, London (1943) Supply convoys were the lifeline that enabled Britain to stand alone against the Third Reich for over a year. Yet, while the role played by the merchant navy was rarely extolled in fictional features, Ealing boss was determined to follow up Pen Tennyson’s Convoy (1940) by relating the true story of MV San Demetrio and hired Chief Engineer Charles Pollard (who is played by ) to serve as a special adviser to director.

The story of lifeboat survivors who decide to rescue the oil tanker they had abandoned following a U-boat attack sounds like Boy’s Own derring-do. But the unforced level of documentary detail employed in depicting the hardships endured by the skeleton crew as they strive to get their stricken vessel back to Blighty reinforces the sense that the common man was every bit as capable of taking command and displaying courage above and beyond as the officer class. Western Approaches (1944) Director Pat Jackson.

Western Approaches (1944) Convinced that monochrome did insufficient justice to the visual and dramatic spectacle of the war in the North Atlantic, the Ministry of Information ordered the Crown Film Unit to use Technicolor for this study of the bond between those sailing under the white and red ensigns. Considering he was shooting on location in appalling weather and occasionally in battle conditions, ’s imagery is remarkable and brings a palpable sense of immediacy to action whose authenticity is further enhanced by the casting of real seamen rather than professional actors.

But the seascapes also show audiences the vast expanses that Allied shipping had to traverse and the dangers it faced from Nazi wolf packs. Shifting focus between the lifeboat containing survivors from the Jason, the rescue ship Leander and the hovering German U-boat, this is not just a riveting game of cat and mouse, but also a stark reminder of the risks involved in tackling a ruthless enemy. The Cruel Sea (1952) Director Charles Frend.

The Cruel Sea (1952) The loneliness of command comes across loud and clear in Ealing’s exceptional adaptation of Nicholas Monsarrat’s bestseller. Exploring the psychological pressure involved in making decisions that would affect the lives of crewmates and countless faceless strangers, Eric Ambler’s screenplay places more emphasis on the human than the heroic. Consequently, few will remain unmoved while watching tears stream down Compass Rose captain ’s cheeks as he gives the order to drop depth charges knowing that they will kill helpless mariners in the water, as well as knock out the U-boat that sank their craft. Ambler also recalls the tensions that existed between enlisted men and conscripts, while the training sequences reveal how raw some crews were when they were pitched into action., and were among the newcomers to find fame through the film. But its star was the Coreopsis, the sole surviving wartime corvette, which the producers purchased from the Maltese navy. The Battle of the River Plate (1956) Directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

The Battle of the River Plate (1956) One of the many ‘now it can be told’ pictures produced in the decade after the defeat of the Axis, this has much in common with The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands, as the contested waters are again off South America, while the pocket battleship, the Admiral Graf Spee, is named after the victor of Coronel. But the biggest similarity is the mutual respect between the British and German commanders, whose gentlemanly gallantry stands in stark contrast to the conduct of the war in other theatres. What and don’t reveal, however, is that Captain Hans Langsdorff would shoot himself just days after scuttling his ship after being trapped in Montevideo harbour and bidding a fond farewell to former prisoner, Captain Patrick Dove. Yet such tragic reality would have compromised the chivalric tone the Archers carried over from their army classic, (1943). Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) Director Robert Wise.

(1970) Producer Elmo Williams liked to joke that this $22m recreation of the Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor cost more than the real thing. It would have been more expensive still had been allowed to film his 400-page scenario.

But he was replaced for the Japanese sequences by yakuza specialists Kinji Fukasaku and Toshio Masuda, while supervised the meticulously researched and authentically reconstructed raid. The emphasis for much of the picture is placed on strategic planning, duplicitous diplomacy, flawed intelligence and missed messages. But, once the first planes fly unopposed over Hawaii, the speed, scale and precision of the attack is brilliantly recreated, with chilling details like the American sailors jumping into burning oil on the ocean surface bringing home the grim savagery of war. The design, effects, photography and editing are impeccable.

Yet, while this fine film struggled to break even, ’s vastly inferior Pearl Harbor (2001) grossed $450m worldwide. Das Boot (1981) Director Wolfgang Petersen. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) Several of Patrick O’Brian’s 20 Aubrey-Maturin novels were plundered for ’s historical epic, which could stand as the dictionary definition of the phrase ‘rattling good yarn’. Switching the action from the 1812 Anglo-American contretemps to the Napoleonic wars in the year of Trafalgar, Weir plays down the period’s political complexities. But he nails the hazards of being under sail on a man o’ war and, even if the location and tank work are supplemented by models and CGI, the tussle along the South American coastline between HMS Surprise and the French privateer, the Acheron, makes for transporting viewing. The story revolves around the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey and surgeon-naturalist Stephen Maturin.

But the sense of a shipboard community, with all its rituals and superstitions, is as admirably conveyed as the ferocity of the fighting, with the sounds made by the shrieking ordnance, splintering wood and maimed mariners being Oscar-worthily bloodcurdling.

This is my first ever review on IMDb and after watching this movie a few hours ago I was compelled to register on IMDb so I could play the Battleship guessing game with you (similar to the original Battleship, only that it's not). Q1: How does a radio telescopes work?

Do they A - Detect and collect data on radio sources B - Shoot some type of visible light laser beam to another solar system in the hope to communicate with aliens? Answer: B - It's hard for someone to imagine how a signal is sent. Q2: What would be the best way for an alien ship to travel once on earth? A - Fly B - Hop on the water (in one direction) like a cross between a water strider and a frog Answer: B - Also staying true to their weapons system which only work line of sight.

Q3: Once the alien destruction robots are launched to attack and weaken the human defense, do they A - Destroy 20 unarmed helicopters B - Ruin a field where kids are playing baseball C - Destroy the only remaining docked Battleship equipped with Harpoon and Tomahawk missiles D - Attack some concrete pillars holding up a section of a freeway Answer: A,B,D - Who would ever think that the USS Missouri had a better chance of attacking the aliens as opposed to a freeway. Q4: Your a bad-ass alien who traveled ten's of light years to take over another planet, what do you bring as a personal weapon? A - A ray guy than can evaporate anything in sight B - Any other type of projectile weapon C - A knife that looks like a screwdriver Answer: C - The only weakness being that it takes this weapon 20 seconds to warm up, giving a double leg amputee enough time to walk up to the armored alien kick-box it in the head and take off it's helmet. Q5: The humans have fired a tomahawk missile at your alien ship.

What do you do? A - Try to shoot it down with your own weapons B - Try to maneuver your ship out of the way C - Have your alien ship hop directly into the missile Answer: C - Oh yes that's right the alien ship is only equipped with grenades and it can only move in the direction it is facing. Q6: Your building an alien war ship that will be used to take over a planet. What material do you use to protect the bridge? A - A type of super strong metal B - Glass Answer: B - Taking over a planet is not so easy when a few sniper rifle rounds breaches the hull on the bridge and kills the alien commander.

If you got 0% then watch the trailer and save yourself from having your intelligence insulted. If you got above 1% then steal a chicken burrito, become captain of the navy in a few years and save the planet from an alien invasion by taking commands from an officer 20 ranks below you.

OK, first of all, yes, this movie has more holes than the surface of the moon. Some of the plot points, tactics, technical gaffes, etc. Are so bad and stupid as the be insulting.

Seriously, if you are up on your military technology at all it's best to go to this movie seriously drunk so that you won't care about the dumbness. That said, it's actually a pretty fun movie.

And, yes, I think it's better than Battle Los Angeles or even the latest Transformers. Because this movie didn't make the same critical mistakes of trying to have Acting in the damn film. Nothing slows down a good action flick like a damn love story in the background, or the hero dealing with his feelings or, worse still, putting brats in the line of fire. Battleship had none of that - just a bunch of thick-headed do- gooders doing what they do best and not really learning a whole lot about anything, including themselves, in the process.

Another thing I like is that there is an appreciation for the warships and the people who serve on them. The timing of the ACDC music for the going-into-battle scene is perfectly done.

You can't help but smile. The alien technology is actually pretty imaginative and the animation is good. It's not as over- the-top as Battle LA - where there was so much going on you get overwhelmed. But when the aliens want something blowed up, they do so with conviction. Mind you, some of the technical deficiencies of the alien technology will leave you wondering how these creatures managed to cross a galaxy.

But try not to worry about that - the writers sure didn't. The cast is OK.

Neeson is decent as the admiral or whatever, and even Rihanna does an acceptable job. We're not talking about 'Apocalypse Now' kinds of performances, but it wasn't horrible either. It was at least semi-believable. Look, this ain't no 'Bedford Incident'. But it's a pretty decent way to kill a couple hours and snarf down some popcorn. All the folks griping about the technical problems - well, it's all true - but who cares? This movie doesn't pretend to be realistic.

Hell, in the credits it's 'Based on the game by Hasbro,' so go in prepared and enjoy. The characters: Mostly douches with bad lines. The story: Aliens invade, their ships are clumsy and weird and jump on water. America (and to a lesser, lesser extent Japan saves the world).

There are moments when you wish you could unsee the tacky ways they (the movie makers) try to make heroes and bad-asses of certain people. Most notably the old sailors on the USS Missouri which are posed (yes, really posed!) everywhere, high and low in an awkward way that just makes you wanna squirm and throw up a little bit. The aliens: At first you think: 'This alien race seems really noble.' Second thought: 'I hope the aliens win, I hate the characters in this movie so much!' Third thought: 'Huh, so the aliens aren't noble, they're just stupid. And they seem a bit evil according to the unoriginal flashback John Carter got but. I'm still rooting for the aliens!

Go aliens, exterminate this movie-verse!!' The sum: Why did I watch this movie with awkward characters, unlikable at best. Silly plot with horribly pushed tie-ins to the battleship game. Plain dumb aliens.

In-your-face product placement (Cola Zero, LG, Subway and probably some more). I was really, really bored. And now I've lost faith in Hollywood movie making. It's not better then Transformers, It's just as bad. If your over 10 years old: Don't watch this. If you 10 or younger: Don't watch this. Hollywood needs to learn that they can't push this crap from the toilet to the big screen anymore!

In reality a technologically advanced species would wipe us out within five minutes. No movie Therefore, this movie depends upon a sequence of improbable happenstances to allow it to progress We have a suitably driven central character and a capable side cast who take up the spirit of the piece, which is essentially heroism in the face of extreme odds If you cannot suspend your disbelief for the duration in order to feel the bravado humanity is genuinely capable of, you do not have the capacity in yourself Your score for this movie directly correlates to how happy you are as a person.

On a certain level, there's no way I can claim that Battleship is a good movie in any conventional sense. The plot is incredulous and the script couldn't be riddled with more holes if you unloaded a shotgun at it.

Even the idea that the movie is based on Hasbro's classic board game of the same name is rather disingenuous: yes, there is a battleship involved in the action, almost all of which takes place at sea, but other than that any resemblance to the game we all grew up playing seems purely coincidental. And I certainly don't remember any aliens in the game I had. But somehow, despite it all, Battleship stays afloat. There's a certain energy and enthusiasm to the film that is infectious, even via the big screen. The story may not make a whole lot of sense, but it is a lot of fun. The extravagant special effects—merely par for the course in any modern would-be blockbuster—are one factor, but spectacular as the many explosions, gunfights, and various displays of pyrotechnics are, there's more to it than that, an overriding sense of fun that makes all the conventional weaknesses of the film meaningless.

Certainly, the cast seems to be having a lot of fun on screen. Taylor Kitsch, who stars as Lt. Alex Hopper, is an empathetic hero whose struggle to overcome his personal weaknesses is ultimately played out with the fate of the world at stake when he finds himself and the crew of his Navy destroyer in the wrong place at the wrong time—and smack in the middle of an amphibious alien invasion. Alexander Skarsgard plays Alex's older brother and mentor, a Navy Captain to whom Alex feels he has been a shallow disappointment. The gorgeous Brooklyn Decker does an adequate job as Alex's girlfriend, Samantha, whose father just happens to be the Admiral of the fleet, and played by the great Liam Neeson in a typically authoritative performance.

The only real weak spot in the cast is singer Rihanna, making her big screen debut and looking like it. One can only hope that if Rihanna pursues further acting roles, she'll improve…a lot. The plot isn't deep, but it does have some positive aspects, incorporating elements of personal redemption, self-empowerment, and self-sacrifice, all concepts that more movies would be well-advised to advance. And while the movie is in a sense very violent—once the aliens arrive, things start to blow up at a rapid clip—there's nothing especially graphic or bloody. The dialog isn't Oscar-worthy, but is sometimes quite witty. In the end, Battleship is a prototypical summer actioner.

It's nowhere nearly as good as The Avengers, but as a very different type of film is still worth seeing if big-budget mayhem is your thing. If you're okay with a movie that doesn't stimulate your brain and requires only that you go along for the fast-paced ride and enjoy the show, Battleship is surprisingly entertaining. I saw the trailers for the movie and expected another Transformers, SFX for all your money. When I started watching the movie though I noticed something wasn't just right.

Why don't the aliens to more Bad things? We are supposed to hate them, they are here to take over our world, Right? And this is where this movie actually Shines, and the reason it gets so many bad reviews is that people miss out on 2 very important facts. Aliens are the Good Guys Humans are the Bad Guys. The movie just makes quite a good job with camouflaging this in regular Blockbuster Cheesiness.

The movie is a direct documentation about how hellish and pointless war is. 1. Symantec ghost bootable usb. Humans in the movie are very aggressive and dumb. Our Main hero is a guy who should never have been put in command of anything! And here he gets to greet our first ever contact with aliens, using Guns, Cruise Missiles and Torpedoes! Aliens never want to hurt anyone. The Aliens Are Passive, Never firing unless first fired upon. The point is made extra clear with the scene where a DeathBall stops in front of a child, re-planning its route in order to destroy the highway without harming the child.

How Much Clearer Can It Get? Aliens have no Military Grade Weapons. This is another point where people seem to watch this movie expecting the regular Blockbuster, and then hate this movie because it isn't! The Aliens didn't expect a war so they didn't Bring Weapons! The Satchel-Bombs they fire of their ships are actually terrible as weapons, the only reason they work at all is because we humans have such slow ships.

This is probably because these bombs aren't designed for any sort of ship to ship battle, but rather for clearing up debris. And what we see on a personal level is an engineering tool the aliens seems to use a lot more for setting up their generators than to actually fight with.

This is NOT your classic race of Evil Aliens equipped with Independence-Day Lasers, or Corrosive 'Aliens' Blood! This is a peaceful advanced race, which came here not expecting to fight, but to talk. Once you realize this the movie starts making sense.

What our 'hero' does is in fact to constantly seek out conflict. Doing everything he can in order to destroy these Aliens, all because of some miscommunication and stupid decisions.

If this movie teaches anything, It would definitely be that when the time comes for humans to face another, alien race. Make sure the ones we send to greet them aren't Military. So Basically what the movie is Really about is about a peaceful race of aliens who receive a message from an apparently peaceful race. We then greet them by firing upon them, trying to kill them even if they aren't even firing at us. So when they realize their mistakes we do our best trying to prevent them from sending a 'Its a trap, humans are evil' message. Regular blockbuster movies often manage to build up a mountain of evil actions on the aliens account, making the 'Heroes' fight justified and true.

Battleship doesn't do that, It puts the regular Blockbuster Patriotism into a setting where it becomes totally destructive, not only preventing the Aliens and Humans to communicate, but also started a war that have already seen thousands of casualties, and may see millions more before its over. I rate the movie 7 out of 10. Its a really fresh take on the whole Evil Alien Invasion theme.

There are 3 hugely anticipated block-busters this year and Battleship was the first one to be released. I had expectations of watching this at that cinema a few times and getting it on blue ray - this is my type of movie!; or at least that was the expectation. With such great promotional footage and Liam Neeson heading the cast, it had to be great. In reality, Neeson has almost a bit part (in fact you see most of it in the promotional adverts), clearly there to increase sales of the movie; with the bulk of the 'acting' coming from Taylor Kitsch. A ludicrous start with Kitsch playing a 27 year loser who, on the recommendation of his brother (Alexander Scarsgard) joins the Navy, suddenly to become at Lt Cdr - The script is clearly written by someone with no military knowledge or experience and that the actions, demeanour and interaction with all that are supposed to be military personnel, is a non sense.

It makes Top Gun look believable! However, it gets worse;with aliens that have made there way to earth with great looking craft,that impressively rise from the ocean (great CGG) - you see it on the commercials for the movie, the only weapon they possess are melee type Armour - pretty ridiculous really and by this point the movie has lost any form of credibility. The outcome is obvious from the first few minutes and I certainly wouldn't go back for a repeat viewing. It's still probably worth a watch if you can't resist, but don't buy any pop corn; there's enough corn in this movie! There may be some inadvertent spoilers in this review, so beware! I went to see this movie with my girlfriend expecting an action movie with (based on the previews) really good special effects. After the first 5mins of the movie, it became apparent that Battleship was going to mix in some comedy as well.

Both my girlfriend and I were both laughing a lot at the beginning of the movie, and it loosened our original perception of the movie. Now, we were just there to have a good time. For the most part, I was impressed. A good amount of the negative reviews I have read seem to not even be about this movie. I read one that literally stated, 'Why did we have to slaughter these aliens that were just trying to get home?'

They were obviously not watching the same movie. These aliens were trying to use our satellites to bring more ships to earth to take over the planet! They were piggy-backing on our technology because their communications ship crashed at the beginning. They weren't some well to do aliens who accidentally crashed and were trying to get home! This was an invasion! Another review said there were too many side stories. There were literally two.

The main story arc deals with the main character fighting the aliens, and then his girlfriend is helping an army vet who lost his legs and they get into some trouble. That's pretty much it. The one big problem I had was the super cheesy part towards the end when all of the old veterans working on the Mighty Mo are posing all over the ship and Hopper gives them the mini speech about asking them to do more for their country. Plus, the idea of running a WWII era battleship with about 10 Navy Sailors and 10 60+ year old vets is a little. I'm not 100% on this, but the standard crew for a Missouri type battleship is over 2000. That was just way too corny for my taste, but it didn't take away too much from the over all movie.

All in all, it was a lot of fun. The movie had great special effects, the interplay between the actors was amusing, and at times, just plain funny. The story was okay, there are a few things that were kind of left hanging, but this isn't supposed to be some artsy, independent film. I disagree with the reviewer who says that 'It's an action movie' isn't a good excuse.

If you want moving dialog, Oscar worthy acting, and a swath of top name actors. This probably isn't the movie for you. If you just want to have a good time, have some laughs, see some great special effects and walk away from a movie with a smile on your face, go see this movie. Battleship is easily the best stupid movie I've seen since Armageddon - it is infinitely better than every Transformers movie ever regurgitated onto the screen (apart from the Cartoon Transformers one from the 80's). Battleship it is the romantic story of how a 26 year old former high school jock John Carter, with no qualifications or experience, ends up in charge of a giant battleship because Eric from True Blood is his brother & he runs a battleship.

High School Jock John Carter and has to destroy an alien invasion in order to impress Naval Commander Liam Neeson so he can marry his really hot daughter that wore that yellow bikini in Just Go With It - he does this by letting Japanese people do everything for him. They use a grid showing the surrounding floating Tsunami alert devices (because the aliens disabled the radar you see) to actually play the game 'battleships' and blow up the aliens using complete guess work & then they ask Old retired war veteran people to borrow their museum battleship & help them blow up Hawaii after they broke all their own battleships while playing battleships with the aliens earlier on - and then at the end he takes the credit for it all, gets a medal & goes for a Chicken Burrito with Liam Neeson. Despite the fact he knows nothing of the man, Liam Neeson agrees to let him marry his really hot daughter as thanks for letting the Japanese & the old people save the world while he stood around and watched. Rhianna is in it too - but don't let that stop you watching the movie as she is like a hot version of Vasquez from Aliens - and to the movies great credit, but also to my great disappointment, at no point does the movie allude to the fact that Rhianna has breasts. Amazing Wonderous Breasts.

Also that freaky little guy from Ghostbusters II that plays the museum director Dr Janosz ('The joyfulness is over!' ) plays the President of the USA - what's not to like here? I went into this movie thinking it was going to be cheesy and have some good action in it which is why I go to the movies.

I don't go for drama and talking I want to see fighting and lots of craziness. I loved the movie, I love alien invasion movies and to see people on here complaining that the aliens didn't really have any special powers makes me laugh. I mean come on they come from a planet similar to ours so why would they have any special powers? They had a bit better technology then we did and what alien movie doesn't? Also think of all the alien movies we have had so far and what else can be done? You go to the movies to be entertained but I guess some people just can't let themselves go for 2 hours and enjoy whats on the screen because it wasn't written like they would of written it. I liked the aliens HALO type armor they wore and the wrecking ball/drilling metal munching destroying things were the sickness.

That was one hell of a way to chew up a ship and spit it out, thought that was great. My kids loved it and my father got choked up over the veterans part.

(His father is from that era and fought in Guam) I was just happy to get away from the busy/nasty daily grind we all sometimes endure and let myself go. I wouldn't see it again at the full price but will for sure go to the dollar movies and buy it when it comes out on DVD. OMG The movie was amazing. I do not like war movies or army movies at all. But this one was amazing. I loved the CG in the movie and i loved the theme. Aliens getting contacted by Earth that try to come and destroy us.

The best part of the movie was at the end when the Museum steam ship had to be used. All the other ships were destroyed and Earths only defense was an old steam battleship that was used. THE BEST part is that it was a museum and the veterans from prior wars all in their 80's and 90's helped the few soldiers that were left from the abandoned ships. I found my self giddy that the veterans were helping and it was right at the climax that was needed especially with a serious movie. I loved it and like i said i normally do not get into these kind of movies. Sitting in the theatre last night, a line from an old Tool song was rattling around in my brain.

'One great big, festering, neon distraction' was used by the band to describe the state of California, but the description couldn't be more apt for Peter Berg's BATTLESHIP. A deafening, blue and orange military recruitment tool, the film can't even sustain its laughably simple premise, and attempts to promote a message so unappealing to its target audience I was left questioning why it even exists. Story is the least important element here, so lets just say that in between all the sweeping helicopter shots and blinding lens flare, an international Naval war games exercise is interrupted by alien invaders, and it's up to reckless officer Alex Hopper (Taylor Kitsch) to save the day. Kitsch delivers solid character work early on, but soon gets lost in the cacophony of bangs and seizure-inducing editing which leaves little room for the human story.

Inexplicably added to the mix are pop star Rihanna, seemingly here for no other reason than, well, she's Rihanna, and Liam Neeson collecting his paycheck for around 10 minutes of screen time. But, as I said, we're not here for the story, rather the spectacular action and special effects right? The bad news is that when the aliens finally show up, BATTLESHIP's pace strangely slows to a crawl (no doubt due to the limited options offered by the source material), and all potential excitement and interest evaporates. Director Berg forces the idea of teamwork down the audience's throats (Japan and the US fighting together in Hawaii?

Wonders never cease), and doesn't even try to disguise his recruitment agenda. Indeed, the film is little more than a hyperkinetic music video (oh, that's why Rihanna is here) designed to lure impressionable youth into signing up so they too can fight the 'alien invaders'. Herein lies the problem however: young people today almost definitely don't play Battleship. Basing a tentpole film on a board game seemed like a daft idea from the outset, but recent cinema history has seen a theme park ride turned into a critically and financially successful franchise, so precedent is there in a way.

Unfortunately for Universal, even those of us who grew up in a pre-internet/Xbox Live world remember Battleship as a desperately boring endeavour, so how can it be expected to compete in today's short attention-span culture? The strange metaphor that Berg attempts to craft in the film's third act, suggesting that we need to remember and re-appraise the past, just won't fly with 21st century teens bred in our disposable, constantly updating world of technological wonder. BATTLESHIP's strange juxtaposition of bombastic special effects framing ancient board game mechanics simply doesn't sit right, and it's hard to imagine the teen audience, so crucial for success at the summer box-office, tearing themselves away from the latest CALL OF DUTY to embrace the turn-based 'excitement' of this ridiculous film. No amount of explosions can salvage a limp and underwritten movie, and BATTLESHIP, not entirely unexpectedly, is torpedoed by its own outdated inspiration. Corny, silly, ridiculous, stupid, pointless, mindless.

Probably one of the worst movies this year. Aliens need a signal to get to Earth then they come with explosive weapons and earthly technology and the navy beats the aliens with a battleship. The unlikely but obvious hero marries the beautiful princess, the elderly retirees get their second chance at being heroes, the handicapped soldier also gets a second chance at being a hero and the Japanese marine helps the USA save the world from an alien invasion.

The story is weak, predictable and the acting is very mediocre. Liam Neeson has made a custom of choosing bad story lines for his work. It seems as this movie has been paid for by the Navy to lure young mindless people to join their ranks.

Distasteful, unpleasant. It's really not a 10 but I gave it that for all the 1s and 2s it was getting.Check your brain at the door and watch things blow up.I liked it enough to comment. I also liked how they used real military and vets for this film.they can't act very well but you'll find it in your heart to forgive that.too many 'SH.T' bombs in the movie.I think if you make a movie about 'SH.T' then you can say it.other wise leave out all the bad language, same goes for 'F.K': they call that porn.ha. Thanks for reading.enjoy the movie. If you don't like Sci-Fi, explosions, or the NAVY, do not watch this movie.

Working on my 10th line and hope not to get an error. No clue what the last reviewer is talking about.

There is tons of action in this film. Yes the first 15 minutes are a little slow (character development) but once the action starts it's non-stop and awesome. Loved this movie, loved seeing the ships in action.

Great movie to watch memorial day weekend, makes you proud of the military! Will definitely buy when it's out on DVD, but was glad we saw in on the big screen first. Your kids will love it, mine did. My only knock is I wish Liam Neeson's role was larger. I really like him. But I enjoyed seeing the younger kids take on the aliens too. Very entertaining, action film.

Don't over think it. This film broke new ground in mindless, irrational, dumb entertainment.

The space aliens fail due to hesitation. A grizzly bear-sized alien in high tech armor is face-to-face with puny humans on several occasions. They throw the humans to the ground (of course, they get up unscathed) and watch the puny humans run away. They are face-to-face with a puny, technologically inferior 70-year-old battleship.

They hesitate and wait for the battleship to strike first instead of obliterating it. We have incredible plot holes like: By dropping anchor, a thousand-ton battleship will swerve on a dime (actually, it would take about half an hour). A disabled man who walks with a cane and has artificial legs and a huge stomach can beat up a grizzly bear-size alien in full high tech armor. A geeky guy can hit a grizzly bear-sized alien in high tech armor with a brief case and beat him up. We see giant square blocks with 100 rocket launchers pop up on alien battleships, yet they only fire one or two at a time. The USS Missouri, which is a floating museum, is occupied by a dozen 90-year-old WW2 vets, who quickly spring into action instead of suffering massive heart attacks and strokes.

The afore-mentioned 70-year-old battleship was fully equipped with live rounds of ammo. The United States Military was too stupid to attack the alien battleships with aircraft, as they did to the Japanese Navy in WW2. This film was the worst kind of garbage imaginable. It ranks up there with Battle: Los Angeles as the worst alien invasion film of all time. On the plus side, I liked those alien buzz-saw bombs that wrecked the ship, but that's it. Even those were phony video game stuff, though.

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. Half of this film is what you'd expect from the title, lots of booms, bangs and aliens. It's moronic but OK if you can turn your brain off.

However, near the end it becomes hilariously bad with the introduction of a series of obvious non-actors who are only there so people who love the military can get all misty eyed and salute whatever flag while overusing the word 'hero'. The scene where these characters are introduced standing at the various points on the ship is one of the worst I can remember in a main-stream blockbuster. Presumably we were supposed to be in awe but all I could think of was how they A) Got up there and B) How they'd get back down without breaking a hip. Oh and while I know it's pointless questioning these things in such a film but it seemed to me that all the aliens really needed was a couple of those spinny ball things.