Skyline

To celebrate the end of my exam, I decided that tonight was movie night so I could spend some quality time with Allan when I had a chance. Having seen the trailer of the movie "Skyline", we thought it would be great to finally go watch it since it seemed to have massive amounts of good science fiction potential.

Poster for Skyline

After watching the movie, however, I'm not so sure what I should say....

It is a movie directed by the Strause brothers, renown for their special effects - having done effects for 300, X-Men, Terminator 3 and a few other blockbusters.

Honestly, I thought that the special effects were great! Definitely up to their standard and the aerial combat was a hell of an amazing thing to watch..

Storyline.. well, it could have been better. I get the point of seeing an alien invasion from the perspective of a civilian and not some war hero sorta thing but being stuck in a 20-storey building for most of the movie.. seriously?? i mean really.. wtf??

It almost felt like "Look guys this is sooo great! omg look at the aerial combat amazing, oh wait hang on.. now where do we go from here??"

The ending did look like there was going to be a sequel but again it was more like "so here's the show and we've made it this far... OMG! we're out of funding.. cut it NOW!" or along another line of "so here's the show, its going pretty good, finally figured out where we're going to go with this story ... oh shit 92 minutes are up.. CUT NOW!"

Disappointing to a certain point. If the sequel came out, I'm not sure it'll make it to the Box office again but just go straight to DVD. I wouldn't watch it in a cinema again but if it did come out on DVD, I'd rent it just because I've seen the first and want to see where they are going with the second.

So, from a sci-fi fan, I wouldn't really recommend going to the movies for this. Perhaps watch it on DVD or something.