Battleship

1/5

If we're going to compare this to the Transformers movie because of the Hasbro license, it's unquestionably the worse of the two. While Transformers wasn't exactly brilliance, it really encompassed the childhood imagination of the toy line, with enough similarities to the cartoons for the diehard fans. This...first off I don't think that there was a protest in Hollywood screaming for a Battleship movie. Second, it really didn't have anything to do with the game. In fact, it only had a small association with an actual battleship. Everyone in it was just awful, each of them their own emotionless, cutout bag of emptiness. Liam Neeson is someone to get excited about, until you learn he's in the movie for all of 7 minutes. Seriously, he's barely there. Some of the CGI was fun enough, but the aliens themselves were really lame. The technology was boring too. This advanced alien race only had three weapons used at sea. The aliens themselves were boring looking. The script was riddled with strange plot holes. Why exactly was it that this alien race who came from a planet the same size, distance from the sun, and atmosphere as earth and are roughly the same size, couldn't handle sunlight? And if any bright light was dangerous, why on earth was their ship covered and laced with incredibly bright lights? All in all, this is one to skip. Go see The Avengers again.