Battleship

Ok, first the good.  Well, the trailer turned out to be very good after many months of development.  In fact, the trailer deserves its own special award. I applaud them for hyping me up to see it.  It did in its tacky way try to honor veterans. There was eye candy action and good special effects, as it should have been for such a big budget Hollywood production supported by the military.  However, many better made action movies have had those necessary qualities such as Armaggedon, Top Gun, Independence Day, The Transformers, etc.  Don’t get me wrong.  I really wanted to like this movie and had always enjoyed naval war films.  But I also knew to expect sacrificing a certain level of things like storyline, logic, believability, and character development.  In this case, that expected sacrifice was far too much to ask for.  Seagall and Van Damme movies have had more character development and for way less production budget than this atrocity.  Liam Neeson, the only real actor in the film, should have been embarassed at taking on this project.  Taylor Kitsch and Rihanna were just “pretty” people doing laughably, impossible things. Speaking of Rihanna, what kind of skunky, beaver weave was she wearing? Typical, predictable, and nonsensical cheeziness are taken to new heights by Battleship.  Small reference to the actual board game that this movie was based on, was made to seem like a rocket science solution to defeating the aliens.  Lest I forget the empty plot that the trailer does a better job of summarizing, aliens conveniently come to invade the earth in Hawaii and the U.S. Navy and it’s old dry-docked battleship is somehow conveniently the only force that can save the world under the leadership of rebel bad boy and fast tracked naval officer (Kitsch) and WW2 veterans.  Save your money and wait for the movie to come to your cable network or free at your library, because it should have been merely titled an extended Navy recruiting film or what I prefer - Battleshit.