Wednesday 9 March 2011

Skyline - An Awful Film

14:44  Daniel Mackrell  3 comments

I don't know how many people have seen this, it had quite small promotion as far as i was concerned, the only time i noticed it was when it was briefly featured on the front page of Youtube.
However, when i was told that this was the film that i'd be watching at the cinema for a friends birthday I made sure to watch the trailer(as i always do before seeing a film), and it really looked bad. When i told my friends that while we waited to buy our tickets, they were a bit critical of me, saying i shouldn't judge it so soon.

However, once the film had ended they were more than agreeing with me. Once the baffling, stupid film had finished, none of us really knew what to say.

I describe it as a 'Bad District 9', but thats an insult to District 9 which is a superb film.
Skyline is essentially an attempt to make a huge alien invasion blockbuster with quite a small budget (in blockbuster terms). Even as a 'B Movie' it was poor. The plot made very little sense, with wierd spaceships suddenly appearing and destroying everything, and if you hope for any answers to appear, i'm afraid they'll never come.
The cast wasn't anything amazing either. It included Turk from Scrubs essentially playing 'Turk from Scrubs' except in this film, he has loads of money.
They also try to add emotion and depth but the script is clearly so weak that everything feels thrown together just for the sake of action. Thier were a few glimmers of hope, but they were simply cheap shocks and some decent special effects.

My main annoyance with this film is the lack of satisifaction. By the end you want to feel like something has concluded, that it's built up to a moment. This doesn't always have to be a happy ending, or even always a good ending, we just have to feel like thiers something we can go away with, but this film left me unsatisfied. Perhaps they just dug thier hole deeper and deeper that thier was no way of turning back, so all they were left with was a dissapointing conclusion.

So if you see the dvd online or in a shop on it's release this week, a word of warning - don't buy it!

1/10

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3 comments:

I can't agree that the plot made little sense: aliens came and started harvesting humans for brains while a group of nobodies tries to survive. It's quite a simple plot - but the story itself wasn't that well told nor were the characters engaging, sympathetic or memorable. Unfortunately, because of the nature of the story, they really needed to be.

But yes, the film wasn't very good at all.

I think what i was saying about the plot was more that thier were know links or connections to give reason for the events to happen, and like you said, the characters were in no way engaging.

One example which i didn't include in the review
*spoiler alert*
Is that if they are saying that the aliens need human brains to live then in that case how did they live before?

It just had numerous flaws which didn't connect(and hence didn't make sense)

I saw this. It was shit. Although when the main characters are that dude that was in 24, Turk from Scrubs, and Angel from Dexter, I'm not expecting to go tits. If you wanna see a really good low budget sci-fi, watch 'Monsters'. I rate it.

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