Skyline (Simpletons Review)

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Film : Skyline
Format: Cinema (Standard Definition)
Run time (approx): 92 mins
My Rating (out of 10):  5

Film Highlight: A car loaded with gangsters perform a drive-by on a huge alien..only to be crushed.

**Contains Spoilers**

You've seen the movie trailers and neat film posters, your a Sci-fi fan, your psyched for this film ! Woah woah woah slow down you obviously didn't take any notice of the reviews before going to the movies, your not the only one. OK here's a quick summary of what the film is about. Los Angeles is covered in strange blue lights , when a closer look is taken it appears to be thousands of humans being beamed up to an extraterrestrial force threatening the face of the earth. I ignored the reviews and thought this film was 'my cup of tea' , then I realised I hated tea about 30 minutes through this film.

There was an estimated $10M budget for this film ... Er WTF? you cant even afford to pay one A-listing actor with that amount let alone make an epic alien invasion film big enough to top the best of the best. The cast included a guy from 'scrubs' (Donald Faison) and another from the TV series 'dexter' (David Zayas, who was the only reasonably well played role in the film). Characters backgrounds were unexplained, selfless and lack emotion to the point where we would rather see them decapitated, hung or vapourised into a pile of ash.

The film contained more pot-holes than England and the film dragged so much, particularly because we were stuck in some rich black guys penthouse apartment whilst the whole world was being exterminated (how he earned all the money,Ferrari and women well never know). Anyway he dies and his Ferrari gets crushed so some satisfaction is gained out of the film (I am a fan of the actor though). You can tell the director had inspiration from films including Cloverfield, Independence day, District 9, and War of the Worlds. I wouldn't of had a problem with that if the ideas were used well and with passion. I was impressed with the CGI and special effects (most of it) as well as the design of the spaceships.The ending was awful and not thought through and the rumour that there will be a sequel stunned me and my friends, however I probably will go and see the sequel (for some unknown reason I just cant think of).  

At the end of the day...
Low budget, dragged out film with some good special effects. Should of gone straight to DVD.