Battleship Review

Plot Summary:
During a series of war games, an international fleet of naval ships comes across an alien armada. A battle among sea, land, and air ensues. What are these aliens' motives? Based on the Hasbro board game of the same name.

The Positives:
There are certainly a lot of negatives to this film and I mean, a lot...However, this film does have one or two bright points. For instance, the special effects in this film are really well done. The alien ships look cool and the explosions look very intense.

Also, this film has small moments of unintentional humor. While not a lot of it to say it's a film so bad that it's good, these small moments are enjoyable and will make you laugh at how unconvincing it is.

The Negatives:
Oh, where do I start? The acting is so dull, wooden, and boring throughout. Every actor here does a lazy job and doesn't even try. Taylor Kitsch, who we last saw in John Carter, gives his second awful performance in this film, I think he should stick to TV acting. The supporting cast is awful, including Liam Neeson who normally is the saving grace for bad films.

The look of the aliens and their motives are absolutely stupid. The aliens here barely look like aliens at all. It's just dumb to look at and I feel that the special effects artists were too lazy on the look of the aliens. I honestly do not even understand the motives of the aliens, the script made it too confusing to follow these aliens' motives.

The script for this film is awful beyond belief. The ridiculousness of this plot is not even the problem with it. The dialogue is extremely cliche and corny. Half of the dialogue said in this film I have heard in other movies before this one. There are so many dumb subplots throughout that I stopped caring after an hour. The writing made the characters so unlikeable and their motives and actions unbelievably stupid throughout. This is a film that should be shown to future scriptwriters on not what to do while writing a script.

While I said the special effects were a redeeming point for the film, it certainly did not help the action scenes at all. The camera work and editing made the action scenes extremely hard to follow at times. Not to mention that these action scenes are among one of the more obnoxious and unnecessarily loud action scenes I have encountered over the years.

Conclusion:
Battleship is a mess on all accounts. This will easily go down as one of the worst films of 2012, if not the worst. Terrible acting, dumb characters, awful script and poorly shot action scenes create a horrendous and dumb blockbuster. A complete waste of time, save your money and see something else.

Rating: .5 out of 10