So we just saw Skyline today. You know, this movie:
I think I would give this movie an F+, if there were such a grade, for the first 88 minutes out of the 92 minute length of this turd of a movie.
I knew what I was getting into as soon as I saw Eric Balfour in the previews. I knew it was going to be one of those Sci-Fi B movies that show up on the Syfy Channel in the middle of the day on Saturday. I’m sure Eric Balfour is a great guy, but I have never seen him outside of Syfy Channel’s more cheesy movies.
Crystal wanted to see a movie, and this was the only US movie showing here, in Hong Kong, that we haven’t seen yet. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part: 1 comes out December 16th and Megamind comes out on the most important day of the year, December 23rd (My Birthday). Yes, make a note of it.
I will say that although this movie gets an F+ it is definitely much better than the movies that form my personal trio of death. These movies are:
While those three movies get an F-, Skyline, minutes 0 to 88, gets an F+. The movie suffered from six problems:
- Horrible storyline
- Stagnant plot (like NOTHING happened for the first 80 minutes)
- Horrible acting
- it had me thinking of a mash-up of Independence Day, Cloverfield, Kai from Lexx, and some mid 20th century brain snatchers movie.
- some have said they saw district 9 in it too, I didn’t.
- Zero big name actors
- should have been straight to DVD or a Syfy channel Saturday midday movie.
Now the first 88 minutes does have one thing going for it
- The special effects, with the exception of one brief part, were pretty bad ass
Yeah just one good thing about the movie. And the best special effects in the movie were all shown in the previews. But now to minutes 89 to 92.
As the pointless movie was coming to an end I started to wonder, what is going to happen here? Are the humans going to win? is some other alien force going to come and bring fiery judgment down upon the evil aliens’ heads? will the military try and nuke the crap out of them again? (Yes they nuked Los Angeles during the movie.)
No none of that. really that last 4 minutes of the movie totally changed it for me. It was sublime I didn’t really see it coming. I knew something was going to happen with the character but I couldn’t have imagined what they thought up. And then the stills right before the credits were pretty amazing. Truly, the last 4 minutes were amazing. But the rest of the movie is an ABSOLUTE turd.
Although, in my humble opinion, the last 4 minutes were pretty amazing, I think you should just watch it on Netflix. It’s going to be one of those movies that goes straight to online streaming. You won’t even have to wait for the DVD to get mailed to you.