Film Review - Battleship (2012)

Battleship is based off the famous board game and stars Taylor Kitsch as Hopper, a man who's life is going nowhere until his brother played by Alexander Skarsgard (son of Stellan Skarsgard aka Captain Tupelov) where he suddenly finds himself faced with an alien visit and one that is far from friendly.

I went into Battleship with very low expectations as the trailer for the film really put me off and as a result I was reluctant to see it but I decided to do so in the end so were my low expectations justified?

Well surprisingly it was better than I thought it would be but only by the smallest of margins and that's mainly due to the film's second half which focuses on simply fighting the invaders with Battleships and director Peter Berg handles the action in those scenes competently though when it's all over you will be thankful of that as it does border on being too much by the end of the film and made me groan once or twice.

Apart from that there is very little else to like about this movie as almost the entire thing plays out like a vacuum in space but instead the vacuum sucks up 2 hours of a person's life as they watch this movie, the first half of the story is boring to watch, Skarsgard is wasted and Liam Neeson looks as though he'd rather be enjoying the Hawaiian sun rather than be in this movie and honestly, who can blame him.

You know, if you want a good action film that takes place on a US battleship, rent the 1992 Steven Seagal movie Under Siege, that was a fun ride with good acting and action direction and is also actually worth your time and your money, this movie is not, 1 out of 5.