Skyline

Alien Invasion along the lins of ID4, looked good from the trailers, but the reviews were rubbish!

What's it about? An alien invasion!

Cast: Eric Balfour, Scottie Thompson, Brittany Daniel, Crystal Reed and Donald Fasion

Written by Joshua Cordes and Liam O'Donnell

Soundtrack by Matthew Margeson

Directed by The Strause Brothers

What I liked? Most of the special effects.

What I didn't like? The script, the acting, the story, the lack of interest and the what the hell was that ending!

Summary: The trailer was cut to perfection, it looked good, didn't give that much away and I was looking forward to this. Then the reviews started, it didn't sound promising at all, in fact it sounded like a disaster!
All I have to say is thank God I have a Cineworld Card, I would have been gutted to pay full price for this! Not even the really good SFX was enough to for the price of a ticket!
I don't think I've seen so many ideas pumped into one film, but they are not just ideas I am talking about things taken from other films. Skyline borrows heavily from a number of SCI-FI classics, the Matrix, ID4 and Cloverfield, but ends up in a complete mess. As they say too many cooks!!

What didn't help this film as well, is the complete lack of any intelligent writing or plot, ok plot can be quite simple - Survive the alien attack! But if that's the story then you need characters you care for, or like a little bit. Here we have a group of 20 year olds who are dumb, never mind can't act out of a paper bag. They make silly decisions, they have no emotional depth, and you can't wait to see them get sucked up by one of the many aliens roaming the streets or flying through the air!

And to top it all it's not even exciting, the biggest jump is an old man and his dog!!!! Their is no tension at all in this film, no panic, no sense of the end of the world. Just these idiots in their pent house!

And then we come to the ending, which I can't really go into except its, "Really you have to be joking me, that's the silliest thing I've ever seen!" And it is! I just hope they don't do a 2nd one!

Summary Bar some very good looking SFX this film was a complete and utter mess (2/10)