Battleship (2012) Movie Review

Storyline

Based on the classic Hasbro naval combat game, Battleship is the story of an international fleet of ships who come across an alien armada while on Naval war games exercise. An intense battle is fought on sea, land and air. What do the aliens want?

Review

Definition of a guilty pleasure

Heaven help me! I liked this movie, now I am going to be one of the few who did. As you can see from the other reviews a lot of people didn't like this movie, so why did I? 

1. I came in with low expectations - I was expecting something horrible, boring, long and pointless, but despite myself I liked it, I laughed at the jokes, I connected with the actors (yes, Rihanna too), I was excited by the action and while clichés the plot held my interest 

2. The actors did a good job with what they were given - Taylor Kitsch did a good job, Rihanna wasn't that bad, I dare say good, in her role. She was there, she didn't try to chew the scenery, she did her job as an actor/secondary character and it didn't bother me. I give her kudos

3. lost in translation? - you try to make a game into a movie and you want to put parts of them game in it? Not easy, a little cheesy? Of course, but fun? Yes, fun, enjoyable, and in the end it was a part of the story that wasn't as forced as it could have been. 

So in conclusion, "Battleship" is a fun, corny, typical summer movie that I like but as you see a lot of people didn't. I think it is a guilty pleasure, something to be enjoyed by the few but annoyed by the rest. In the end I can only suggest this - go in with low expectations, expect a little over the top patriotism like in "Act of Valor" ( but not so heavy), and don't think about it. The movie is not without its flaws or questionable logic, but as it was said so well in another movie - "I suggest you don't think about it and just enjoy the ride"

Director: 

Peter Berg

Writers: 

Jon Hoeber, Erich Hoeber

Cast

	Taylor Kitsch	...	Lieutenant Alex Hopper
	Alexander Skarsgård	...	Commander Stone Hopper
	Rihanna	...	Petty Officer Cora 'Weps' Raikes
	Brooklyn Decker	...	Sam
	Tadanobu Asano	...	Captain Yugi Nagata
	Hamish Linklater	...	Cal Zapata
	Liam Neeson	...	Admiral Shane
	Peter MacNicol	...	Secretary of Defense
	John Tui	...	Chief Petty Officer Walter 'The Beast' Lynch
	Jesse Plemons	...	Boatswain Mate Seaman Jimmy 'Ordy' Ord
	Gregory D. Gadson	...	Lieutenant Colonel Mick Canales
	Jerry Ferrara	...	Sampson JOOD Strodell
	Adam Godley	...	Dr. Nogrady
	Rico McClinton	...	Captain Browley
	Joji Yoshida	...	Chief Engineer Hiroki

The Cold Light of Day (2012) Movie Review

Storyline

After his family is kidnapped during their sailing trip in Spain, a young Wall Street trader is confronted by the people responsible: intelligence agents looking to recover a mysterious briefcase.

Review

A bad TV movie

I went to see this film after I saw an initial rating on here of 8 out of 10, but let me tell you it is very, very poor.

The film is littered with blatant product placement to the point that I thought at some points I was watching a slick advert. The first of these adverts is when the film lead stops to buy a drink of coke for no reason and proceeds to slowly drink it with the can taking up most of the screen, really just like an advert.

This was a little annoying but I kept hope that this was a small issue in what could become a very good film. Unfortunitly it didn't and car and phone adverts continued through the film. The script was poor and events unbelievable. Most of the action scenes you will have seen copied from Bourne or other action movies but made laughably similar but much worse. The acting from weaver was poor, although I am not sure if the blame lies with sigourney or the director. To be honest Bruce Willis is by far the best actor and carries the film for the first 20min giving some hope it will become a good action film, unfortunately it did not.

I have never walked out on a film but after a number of laugh out loud moments ( at the film ), I was seriously contemplating it. I may be wrong but i think we have a nomination for a rotten tomato award.

3 stars is being kind,

Director: 

Mabrouk El Mechri

Writers: 

Scott Wiper, John Petro

Cast

	Henry Cavill	...	Will
	Verónica Echegui	...	Lucia
	Bruce Willis	...	Martin
	Sigourney Weaver	...	Carrack
	Joseph Mawle	...	Gorman
	Caroline Goodall	...	Laurie
	Rafi Gavron	...	Josh
	Emma Hamilton	...	Dara
	Michael Budd	...	Esmael
	Roschdy Zem	...	Zahir
	Óscar Jaenada	...	Maximo
	Joe Dixon	...	Dixon
	Jim Piddock	...	Meckler
	Fermí Reixach	...	Carlos
	Lolo Herrero	...	Reynaldo