Skyline

Title: Skyline
Theatrical Release: November 11, 2010

     Yet another alien invasion movie, however this is one that you should stay far away from. In the previews, Skyline may look like one of those cool alien invasion movies, however it fails in almost every aspect except for the effects.
      THE PROS
The effects were very good in this movie. The aliens looked real and so did the spaceships everything else.
      THE CONS
Usually alien invasion movies arent generally the best but they are appealing to watch. Not this one. Skyline left out some key points which made the movie very confusing. First off all, the main character gets powers because he stared into a blue light. These powers include super strength. However everyone else that looked into that blue light didn't get turned into a superhero. This makes the story very unpleasant for me because i had that thought in the back of my mind while watching this.
      Skyline also had a very hard time introducing characters. theres a tleast 6 characters the movie focuses on and they almost hardly use their names. It caused me to call the characters, "That black guy" and "the white dude with the black hair".
      The ending was what killed the movie for me. We learn that all the aliens are doing is killing people and making them into monsters. This makes no sense, why would they need to take the trouble of bringing them up the blue light and killing them in their spaceship? The aliens could have easily just knocked down the hotel building  the characters were in, recover their bodies, take out their brain, and insert into monster body. I Smell PLOT HOLE
       Speaking of the plot, it is focused on one thing. ESCAPE. however there is no escaping ever because everyone dies in the end except for the girl. I absolutely hate movies that end like that. To me, everyone dying is just a middle finger to the face.
       We never really attach to the characters like we did in other alien movies. for example in cloverfield, I became attached to the characters hoping they would survive and not die and that the monster was killed. In Skyline, i felt like i just didn't give a shit about the characters. In fact i wanted them to die so this movie would end.There was an attempt to make a romantic relationship between "The white guy with black hair" and the girl hes dating however i feel like that failed because the only romantic part was at the end. To me it felt like these characters had just met and started to go out in a cutscene. Skyline failed to make the characters likeable which resulted in a bad rest of the movie
                              
                                                    CONCLUSION 
   When Skyline comes out on dvd, i advise you to say as far away from this movie as you can. Skyline lacks the inspiring feeling that most aliens invasion movies have today. Its bland and doesn't contain the intensity that most action movies have. The Movie makes the characters unlikeable which ultimately led to this movies downfall.



 FINAL RATING : 1/5