I don't know if this film was the product of a recession hit Hollywood;or if they simply had contracts to fulfill and didn't feel like thisproject had much promise. It was more than the bad CGI and all aroundspecial effects. Everything in the film was tacky. I would be lessworried if this movie was a straight to DVD release. Actually a sci-fichannel original would be more fitting. The production quality was justpoor. If there is any redemption for this film; it would require filmcultist of a certain mentality. The cinematography is the weakest link.All the intricate shots involving the aliens betrayed the deception wecome to expect from $10 a ticket. This stunk of favors. Some kid wantsto be a film maker; and the daddy pulled strings.

If there wasn't the 10-line limit for the review, the title wouldeasily describe the movie. The first scene of the movie is the actualattack as seen from inside the protagonists' room. And just when youget ready for action, the movie slows down and keeps that pace for anawfully long time. It is really a pity, because the graphics are reallynice and with an descent scenario, they could make amore-than-noticeable movie. Instead the result was a bad balancebetween sci-fi and cult (in a scene near the end the main characterbeats a robot-like alien with his bear hands). I guess they showed toomuch confidence in their CGG and they forgot to work the slightest bitwith the story.

I love sci-fi movies from the super-great to the cheesy"so-bad-they're-good" b-movies but I'd class this as a c-movie at best.The negative reviews are dead-on and I wish I hadn't wasted time on amovie that was so badly done.

The basic concept of aliens invading and easily wiping out the punyhumans is great, I love that - it's fun to have an unhappy ending.. butthe plot felt like it was typed out by monkeys while listening to sharpnails scrape along a mile-long chalkboard. I spent the entire moviewaiting for it to start plot-wise. They totally ruined a great conceptwith a pathetic attempt not even worthy of direct-to-disc.

And the characters.. ya, I'm with everyone that couldn't wait for thealiens to kill them, just so I would be free of their 'acting'..perhaps this was intentional to make the audience side with the aliensbut the movie would've actually been better if all the actors had beensucked up in the first minute and we spent the rest of the movie justwatching the aliens wipe out humanity. If the aliens were smart, theywouldn't touch those brains with a 10-foot sentinel tentacle.

The aliens definitely are a ripoff of the machines in the matrix andhopefully a well-deserved lawsuit will prevent a sequel from invadingthe earth.

Avoid this one.. it's not bad, it's super-bad and right up there withDistrict 9 in the over-hyped, makes-a-good-commercial but "why did Iwant to watch this?" category of movies.

Skyline is a film that fits squarely into the all action, little plotcategory. Entertaining at times, mind-numbingly boring at others, it'sactually not as bad as it's made out to be when you realize theconcessions that were made by the filmmakers. It has a tiny budget andthus no stars, sometimes cheap looking special effects, and borrowsliberally from the usual suspects, films like Independence Day,Cloverfield, War of the Worlds, and District 9. In the end it'scertainly better than their latest effort, Alien vs Predator Requiem,and goes along with the mediocre quality of the first AVP. The bigthing hurting it is mostly unlikeable characters that do nothing todraw the audience into caring about what is happening. Whether you willenjoy this film is dependant on whether you are OK with sitting downfor a meaningless sci-fi adventure that feels very familiar but has afew genuinely good moments. 5/10

I wanted to comment on a more recent film, that is of Hollywooddescent, and that also could inform a more critical review. One thatwill, in fact, give me a more acerbic writing style from my previous(mostly positive) musings. So, out of sheer knowing - that is, I knewthis film would be a steaming pile of s**t - I decided to watchSkyline. I was attracted to this project as an object of despise, as itwas directed by "the brothers Strause". Now, forgive me for judging,but anyone who is given the role of directing a film from the startingpoint of an F/X team, is surely going to be a miss (just look at StanWinston's Pumpkinhead - God rest his soul). Whilst they had oneprevious outing in the for of Alien Vs Predator: Requiem, theirprevious film output was for the special effects of films such as TheCurious Case of Benjamin Button, 2012, and 300. An impressive array offilms, crossing genres are to their name - in F/X. Just please, don'tlet them direct films!!!

Skyline tells the story of a bunch of vacuous twenty-somethings whohave congregated in an LA apartment block for a party to 'inaugurate'Jarrad (Eric Balfour) into a life in the music industry that he lostout on in younger youth. He has been invited to this 'party' (although,I've been to more exciting parties in a war-zone), with his girlfriend(maybe fiancé, I couldn't care less - and who is played by some pretty,unconvincing girl) to join in on 'the business'. Well, anyway, the nextday, there have been some alien 'lights' landing around the apartmentand generally sucking people up in alien 'spaceships', cultivatinghuman brains - well, I'm sure they're tasty! These people are then spatout as giant gorilla-robot style aliens. What will they do withthemselves once they've gobbled us all up? I don't care! Well, thelight is rained on the folk and we find out that people are drawn tothis before being taken by the aliens. And their eyes and the skinsurrounding said eyes, turns all veiny!

I think the party sequence really triggers this movie into the juvenilebulls**t that it really occupies. In a 'party' sequence, the revelersare watching as an occupant of a parallel apartment gets a blow job, inquite a disturbingly voyeuristic scene. The parties reverie ispalpable, until the person giving head is suddenly revealed as beinganother male. the 'audience' recoils in disgust. It's just a little onthe 'right' side of homophobic. But this element just prepares you forthe onslaught of vile, vacant character plotting that fills the filmwith my utter contempt.

The films 'characters' are occupied by the sort of inane people youmight find on a TV 'reality' show such as Celebrity Love Island. Itsthe kind of person that may on the surface look pretty, but has noredeeming qualities whatsoever, and I would be happy to see mangled insome kind of painful Grand Guignol fashion, for my pleasure.Unfortunately, these are the people that get on in life.

It does play like the beginning of a really bad sci-fi channel series,a pilot for a season that we wish would never be. It has a large amountof brickolage in the sense that, every visual and character idea issomething that you have seen in countless films before this(Independence day, 2005's War of the Worlds - to name just two). Ithink the only thing that may possibly redeem this project is thespecial effects which are relatively good. Although, as I previouslysaid, they are simply lifted ideas from other films (or am I supposedto say 'homage'?).

The acting in this film is beyond reproach. OK, maybe the charactersare all generic and have not been given any kind of arc, but there isno redeemable performance. I have seen better acting in the particlesof bile in my vomit after a particularly heavy (and food-free) night ofdrinking. Each acidic bubble trying to explode first in a mission toout-act the bursting of the previous one. I can find nothing in thisfilm, other than it wasted 2 hours of my life. I almost found myselfbecoming jealous of their characters lured into the light of the alienships, as they had their eyes burnt out. An event that could not comesooner whilst watching this atrocious excuse for and over-expensive,generic piece of s**t.

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