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| Liam Neeson, Taylor Kitsch and Rihanna look purposeful on the poster for Peter Berg's Battleship |
Aliens enter our atmosphere and fall in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii. - American and Japanese battleships have to fight them.
That is the premise in Battleship, crudely modeled over Hasbro's board game. The film offers good-looking effects, and there is no shortage of explosions, but it is still a boring sci-fi/military/disaster/action movie.
The characters are a bunch of Marines, who speak to each other in code and Navy-slang 90 % of the time, - pretty hard to relate strongly to, or to have any fun with.
When the world in the end has to be saved SPOILER by 'Mighty Mo' - the retired Pearl Harbor battleship - the film becomes involuntarily comical.
Battleship quickly became an infamous dud in Western minds, - although it actually did much better outside of North America, and thus didn't become quite the financial disaster that everyone had already somehow decided that it was. But it is a bad, stupid movie, - with some eye-candy to smoothen its digestion, like the VFX and ...
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| Taylor Kitsch and Liam Neeson in uniforms |
The film's director Peter Berg (Lone Survivor (2013)) wasn't fully behind it; just weeks after its release, he was talking about its failure and his failure on it in a public Q&A.
Still, probably the main problem of Battleship is its awful script, by Jon and Erich Hoeber (the Red movies).
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Watch the film's trailer here
Budget: 209 mil. $
Box office: 303 mil. $
= Flop
What do you think of Battleship?
What board game would you like to see a major studio throw 200 mil. $ after?
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