Variety
Overlong and underwritten even by the standards of summer f/x extravaganzas, this Battleship will nonetheless float with many on the strength of its boyish, eager-to-please razzle-dazzle.
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Battleship
An alien race decides to turn the earth's oceans into their own personal power generator, and it's up to Liam Neeson and pop-R&B singer Rihanna to lead the world's naval defences against the space invaders.
Loosely based on the Milton Bradley boardgame Battleship. From the director of Hancock.
2012Rating: M, for intense sequences of violence, action and destruction, and for language131 minsUSA
ActionScience Fiction
- Director:
- Peter Berg ('Hancock', 'The Kingdom', 'Friday Night Lights')
- Writer:
- Erich HoeberJon Hoeber
- Cast:
- Taylor KitschAlexander SkarsgårdBrooklyn DeckerRihannaLiam NeesonTadanobu AsanoJosh PenceJesse Plemons
Battleship / Reviews
Total Film
Nigh-on two hours of gale-force military fetishism, a script set to soundbite, and stratospheric levels of product placement.
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If you found Transformers just a touch too subtle, this big dumb puppy of a film is for you.
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