While watching Battleship, you’d think it would be hard to forget that the movie is based on the Hasbro board game. But with the superfluous giant explosions, mechanical beasts, swimming models, hip-hop singers, and giant spinning wheels of death, it’s easy to mentally substitute a thousand previous movies as inspiration for the iconic war game. It may be hard to see the new surroundings in alien invasion, but Combat borrows so generously from its predecessors (and even video games like Halo ), which is surprising because the filmmakers didn’t bother to credit the source of the title at all. Unfortunately, while the film deals with numerous themes, plot points and choices from its brethren, it doesn’t get the attention it deserves. Our hero is stubborn, reckless, arrogant, greedy, not of good character, and we are supposed to exterminate him. You can’t even feed strangers as they have less personality.
When his older brother Stone (Alexander Skarsgaard) convinces him to join the Navy, reckless Alex Hopper (Taylor Kitsch) finally has a chance to straighten out his life. Although his brash ways will constantly find him at odds with Admiral Shane (Liam Neeson), Alex is determined to marry his older daughter Sam (Brooklyn Decker). His plans are interrupted when foreign space lands in the Pacific Ocean and warships are sent to investigate in RIMPAC maritime exercises. When it is discovered that the alien vessel belongs to a hostile race of invading aliens, Alex and his crew must save the world from extinction.
Why is this movie based on a fighting game? Hasbro certainly does not own the rights to word “battle.” And this movie has nothing to do with the game at all, except for a fictitious reality in which red alien blips are being tracked in a big parade. Although it is unknown to say that the fight in the water is essentially Transformers, filled with the same level of visual toys, thunderous noises, abundant impact effects, and swirling chaos and destruction. He could also compare it to last year’s fight: Los Angeles but without the realism or the 9th district without the political commentary. It’s bad enough that the conventional aliens themselves are so hopeless – it’s made for the singularity of stunning monsters like in Independence Day< /a >? It’s also stolen from Harold Russell’s role of Homer Parrish (voiced by a real-life soldier who lost both hands in a training accident) from The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) – here he’s replaced by a Marine leg played by Gregory D. . Maintaining a vital tone (with an actual fleet of veterans, kits, and fortifications) seems wildly out of place (and even a touch irreverent) considering the abundance of nutty alien invasion hullabaloo (doubtful government like “extinction plane events”). instead of believable war reenactments.
Filmmakers are under the impression that every action, every line of dialogue, and every second of computer-generated imagery represents the most terrifying, adrenaline-rushing adventure ever to hit the big screen. Unfortunately, you are wrong. The amount of generic material and stereotypical sequences is staggering. Fraternal love, camaraderie, Funnel comically mixing sensitive situations with inexperience, psyching in the mirror, close game events, wise elders respect for battle maneuvers, pious music, small step imprinted, a sexy girl on the beach, the affection of a captain’s daughter, a foot soldier, a rebel who doesn’t play by the rules, a nerdy scientist who must perform at least one feat of bravery, a tough knight, a chattering chatter of a woman – every nuance , every action, every exchange of words is so formulaic that Pugnatus seems composed by every great blocker from the last five years.
– Massie Fetus (GoneWithTheTwins.com)
