American Warships (2012 Video) User Reviews

Poor poor movie

[rikbikboo · 2/10 · 14 May 2012]

when I saw that Mario Peebles was in this film I expected it to be rubbish.

And that is exactly what I got. Poor, no, very poor special affects. I have done better making my own special affects on the pc, in fact I would say that most readers could.

If you watch this film then you must really have nothing to do..

This is certainly a time waste movie. Cardboard acting.

Heed this warning. Do not waste your time watching this.....

I am still getting over how bad it all was. even the jet scene looks like it was super imposed.

lol I will be amazed if someone gives this film more than a 5/10

If I were to rate this movie based on my expectations, it would be higher than a 4

[shinnstoneer · 4/10 · 20 May 2012]

I noticed that there have been two somewhat positive reviews of this movie and both of them have received heavy marks for not being helpful to readers. It makes me wonder if there is an anti-Asylum contingent (or individual) with an axe to grind.

Having played golf for years I am used to driver knockoffs that don't measure up to the real thing but that typically are far more worthy than most movie knockoffs created by Asylum. So it is surprising to me that I didn't feel that way at the conclusion of American Warships.

Sure there is a certain amount of bad acting and scripted clichés that might make you wince but it is not to the level expected of Asylum.

Most end of the world, mega disaster movies seem to eventually leave me thinking that they were fun but I've seen it before. In AW, there is an appearance of creativity that manages to present something that I didn't feel as though I've seen it dozens of times.

For free television and original programming, AW manages to at least put forth a plot that might have been really interesting with a big budget. Don't enter this expecting a "Transformers" meets "Pearl Harbor" and accept it for what it is and I believe you'll be entertained.

That's a giant leap forward for Asylum on SyFy.

Apparent ripoff of Battleship with elements of Tempered Steel

[Khan_Drichthyes · 2/10 · 20 May 2012]

First of all, the only reason I gave it 2 stars is because it had some very nice aerial shots of the Iowa being transported to her new berth. (Shots that have tugboats pushing her.)

The actual filming was not on board the Iowa. That was actually the North Carolina. I really hope the Town of Wilmington received adequate compensation for this piece of garbage. The battleship itself certainly didn't even get a fresh coat of paint in many of the rooms they filmed in.

Here come the spoilers.

So North Korea seemingly starts attacking both their neighbors to the south, and a US Carrier Battlegroup, and get the drop on everyone by using EMP. Thankfully, USS Iowa is mostly spared, since all of her main systems do not rely on integrated circuits. This appears to have been ripped off some from a book, titled "Tempered Steel".

When it's revealed that the antagonists are aliens, now we appear to be getting a ripoff of Battleship.

OK, I'm done with the spoilers.

Horrible cgi. Various stock footage of battleships with their hull number cgi'ed over to 61 (Iowa's hull number), but missing the number painted on top of one of the turrets. Bad acting with even worse lines. Bad, bad, bad.

Why did I watch it, you may ask? I was visiting family, and my Dad was a former officer on the Iowa. Naturally, despite my warnings that this looked bad in the commercials, he just HAD to see how the Iowa was portrayed.

Do not watch this movie.

[harrybarracuda · 1/10 · 15 May 2012]

It's a shame you can't give less than 1/10, because this is the biggest steaming pile of guano I've seen in a long time (and I just watched "No Body Found).

Appalling cliché-ridden script, pathetic acting, woeful special effects, about the only thing that I can guarantee if you watch this is that it will probably make your eyes and ears bleed.

As others have, it was obviously knocked together to try and get some business of the back of "Battleship", but the budget for that was $200 million. There's actually no budget for this on IMDb, perhaps they're too embarrassed to say just how cheap it was to make, because I've seen film students make better quality material.

Avoid at all costs.

High concept needed more money to make it work

[EndlessBob · 5/10 · 25 October 2013]

This movie may have come out at the same time as the movie "Battleship," but it had a lot more thought behind it than the bigger-budget movie based on a '60s board game.

First off, ignore the cast and special effects, and consider the plot: The USS Enterprise carrier group is sunk in minutes by an unknown enemy after its electronics are disabled by an "EMP weapon," barely giving them time to send out a mayday. Only a large debris field is found by satellite. The USS Iowa is in the area on her farewell goodwill tour, and happens to be nearby when an island whose ownership is disputed by North Korea is attacked by missiles and destroyed by the same unknown enemy.

The Iowa engages the enemy, which seems to be not only Stealth-enabled, but actually invisible to the naked eye, though they do appear when they launch their missile attacks. The Iowa is also attacked with the EMP weapon, but thanks to the ship's legacy 1940's no-computer technology, and the presence of a skilled team of naval historians on board to restore the Iowa to her WWII condition for her new destiny as a floating museum, she is still able to fight on in her not-inconsiderate WWII level of combat readiness.

As the captain, crew (and hesitant Admiral) attempt to maintain contact with the enemy until reinforcements arrive, they try to figure out who is behind the attacks.

The CG effects are pretty bad. The acting is not much better. But the idea that the low-tech -- yet formidably-armed -- Iowa might be the best possible fighting platform against a technologically-advanced enemy is a concept worthy of better treatment. Certainly better than "Battleship" provided.

The worst thing I've ever seen

[hjassol · 1/10 · 20 May 2012]

We all know that Mario Van Peebles will never be mistaken for DeNiro, but he reaches new lows for acting in this awful mess. A cardboard cutout of a Naval officer would have had the same impact on screen. Of course, he had no script, no plot and no supporting actors either, so his only fault may have been accepting the role in this piece of junk.

Director Thunder Levin should never be allowed near a movie set again. In fact, him calling himself a director is like me calling myself the dictator of a small South American country. I am nothing of the sort but, neither is he.

I did pick up some interesting info while watching this crapfest, though, such as: When a US Navy ships Captain rescues one of his female officers from under a piece of armor plating, they then roll around on the deck and make out a lot. When in battle, a US Navy ships crew does virtually nothing except stand around on deck, waving their arms and shouting "YAY!". There is always a five foot long piece of two-inch iron pipe lying around on the deck of a US Navy battleship, in case you have to stop a rolling 16 inch artillery shell from crushing you. Carl Weathers would be better off spending his time at the horse track, eating sardine sandwiches and betting 50 cent trifectas.

There is nothing redeeming about this, uh, "movie". The acting is wooden, the CGI is so amateurish it's laughable, and the plot is ridiculous. Next time, I'll paint a wall and just sit watching it dry, my time would be better spent.

simply awful

[seanz-390-745125 · 1/10 · 10 August 2012]

I could write a long review about everything awful that but simply put probably one of the worst films i have ever seen. Some films are so bad they are actually quite good but there is nothing positive about this film. The Navy SEAL's in Act Of Valour acted better than anyone in this film. the special effects are so bad it isn't even funny.This so reminds me of another rip off Battle of Los Angeles. Why bother i feel like i've lost ninety minutes of my life. Remakes are one thing but to blatantly rip off another film so soon after it was released and to put so little effort into it is a waste of time. There are so many films out there worthy of watching this is not one of them.

Still trying to get over how bad this movie was

[TheLittleSongbird · 1/10 · 1 July 2012]

I try not to make it a habit of down-grading the SyFy movies, as there are a few out there that are watchable. However, they have done a lot of cheap and badly written and acted movies, and for me American Warships is one of their worst recent examples. It does look cheap for starters, with choppy editing, scenery/settings that doesn't look that authentic(including the ship actually) and very slapdash at best special effects that further suffer from bad texture and heavy over-use. The script is often aimless with cheesy one-liners, the music is often over-bearing and at a sluggish tempo and the characters are little more than underdeveloped clichés(I have yet to see a SyFy movie character that I actually identify with). The story goes at a dull pace and doesn't generate any sort of thrills or fun, everything also feels very predictable in that you anticipate what's happening next constantly. And looking at the logic here, I would genuinely be surprised if SyFy did any kind of research before doing the film whether geographically and scientifically. Apart from a pretty likable Johanna Watts, the acting is poor, either phoned-in or too eager to please. Overall, a waste of time. 1/10 Bethany Cox

Shame on this film.

[sguido · 1/10 · 20 May 2012]

I'll keep it simple: the money spent on this should have gone towards a commercial for the Iowa museum, and if any money was left over, donated to the museum.

Having served, some things in a military based movie really irritate me:

aircraft changing types from one scene to the next...or, as here, from cut to cut.

when an actor portraying somebody from an elite unit hasn't been coached on how to clear a room, or even hold a weapon. Even video games get it right these days!

speaking of games, the old "Fleet Commander" had better VFX than the ones in this film.

Other things just irritate: let's have the Iowa (Galactica) be immune to the aliens (Cylons) because it is an old ship that's being turned into a museum and doesn't have modern equipment.

Mr. Weathers and Mr. Van Peebles: seriously? You guys were in "Rocky" and "Heartbreak Ridge.". Are things that bad you stooped to *this*?

I just hope this was one big practical joke....and based on the line, "You don't get to sink my battleship" it might have been.

But still...shame on you for wasting $ when it could have gone towards the museum.

Low budget tour De farce

[webbr23 · 1/10 · 20 May 2012]

Low budget, low quality and low acting skill! I hope this was shot on digital because it would have been a complete waste of celluloid! Special effects worse than most junior school plays. Pure rubbish. No doubt the creators are trying to bamboozle punter into thinking that this is the movie Battleship. Ships and aliens. Doh! Don't waste you time or money of this one! If this doesn't leave you feeling nauseous with disgust then you need to get out more! What a sad use of a fine warship with a proud history. Shameful! Seriously, if you have a choice of root canal treatment or watching this movie, go and see the dentist. This is like drilling without Novocaine.

The Asylum's 'American Warships' sails the sea of cheese

[ersinkdotcom · 8/10 · 12 July 2012]

Piggybacking off the domestic box office disaster "Battleship" as much as they can, The Asylum released their low-budget knock-off entitled "American Warships." Leave it to these mockbuster makers to swoop in on the dead carcass and pick off all the flesh left on the bone after the brutal slaying it suffered. The original title of the film was "American Battleship" until Universal Pictures intervened demanding a name-change among other things. The Asylum did what they had to do to get the finished product released and told the studio they "appreciate the publicity."

"American Warships" begins when a mysterious attack is launched by undetectable ships off the coast of civilization. The U.S.S. Ohio and its crew are brought out of retirement to find out who's responsible for the attacks before the different countries of the world begin World War III. They soon discover that the unknown force is alien. The officers and crew of the ship must find a way to stop them before they can call in intergalactic reinforcements to complete their mission to take over the Earth.

This movie once again takes a rather serious direction and doesn't come off as too campy. It took a while to get going, with most of the action in the first 45 minutes or so depending on ships shooting at each other. Things really get interesting when the Navy SEALS board one of the alien ships to see what they're up against. We finally get some of the typical action regular viewers of Asylum movies are used to. The good guys chase the bad guys through some sort of tunnels or hallways while shooting lasers and rifles at each other.

The visual effects and CGI are par for the course based on the last few Asylum films. They're just above adequate but light-years ahead of where they used to be. The aliens still suffer a bit visually from blue-screen pasting and CG work, but they look unique. These aliens aren't the garden variety "War of the Worlds" or "Alien" looking ones we get so many times in these types of low-budget films.

One thing that really helps the film is it was shot on an actual Navy battleship. Filmmakers used the decommissioned U.S.S. North Carolina as a stand-in for the Ohio. However, the room supposedly in the Pentagon looked like it was shot in a small rented out hotel conference room with sheets put over the entrances. That kept you grounded in the world of the Asylum enough to where you didn't forget what you were watching.

Just like every great Asylum film, we were treated to appearances by actors who have been off the Hollywood radar for a while. Mario Van Peebles stars as Captain James Winston and Carl Weathers stars as General Hugh McKraken. They put their all into the roles they were given and act circles around most of the other cast members in the movie.

"American Warships" isn't the best Asylum film ever put out. It'll still give fans of these types of movies something to laugh at on a boring Saturday night. I hoped for a bit more cheese, which strangely enough people usually don't want when they watch a movie. However, an Asylum film without the cheese is like a cheeseburger without the cheese. Did I use the word cheese enough in this paragraph?

1950's B grade for the 21st Century

[anthonyparra · 7/10 · 15 October 2012]

This movie reminded me very much of those 1950's science fiction movies I grew up with. Poor acting at time laughable special effects a plot so full of holes you could steer a battleship threw but still enjoyable for what it is a bit of fun science fiction made on a tight budget.

Although the plot lines are similar I actually enjoyed this move far more than "Battleship" which I felt over relied on CGI. The Alien ships where simple and didn't take 5 minutes just to change it's self into some type of transformer.

Look if your looking for a summer block buster with massive CGI your going to hate this movie however if you just look at it as bit of science fluff it's enjoyable and quite frankly a damn site better than many science fiction movies made on the cheap.

Holy crap

[e_v_m · 1/10 · 21 June 2012]

In all of my stupidity, I thought this was the big motion picture that was out in the cinema so I bough the DVD. Honestly, I have seen a lot of movies, some better then others, but this is the biggest crap ever. Even the gunshots are fake and the actors move their guns back and forth like they shoot and CGI is added later to make it look like they fire it....

I had a deja vu feeling back when the movie "The day the earth stood still" came out and in the same year that awful rip off "e Day the Earth Stopped" appeared. Same thing as this, only 4 years later. The pure waste of money that went into this.....

An alarm bell should have gone off when I saw the cast line up.....all formerly successful movie stars that are looking to score another buck....regardless the script. Shame on them.

Put Simply

[shatterd_moon2 · 2/10 · 16 May 2012]

This, I laughingly use the term "film", is a disgrace to the Iowa class Battleship!!! There is nothing special about the special effects. I have seen cartoons with better story lines. The acting was a joke, and the director....director, couldn't direct a grade school play let alone a movie. The only positive in this fiasco was some shots of the USS Iowa from the air. There were some very nice shots of the historical battle wagon. The only reason this movie was made was to advertise the fact that the "Big Stick" is on her way to being turned into a museum. Though i am not sure that making a terrible film was the best way to get that point out to the general public. But what can you do?

B-rate troll movie

[the-ryoku-kitsune · 5/10 · 21 May 2012]

I kind of got suckered into this one so take this as a word of warning. I thought this was a documentary my room mate downloaded (off Amazon.com btw, just for the record) but I quickly found out it was a B-rate.

after watching this I did a little research and discovered that this is a "Mockbuster" from the same studio that brought us "Battle of Los Angeles" last year [2011] not to be confused with "Battle: Los Angeles" the blockbuster that came out at almost (if not) exactly the same time. They get the directory of upcoming summer big budget films and throw together a spoof of the concept on a shoe string budget and release it at the same time.

I wasn't around for this one but last year they put the Battle of Los Angeles on TV during the release week so I assume this went the same way when BattleShip came out.

First things first, this is a B-rate move. If you are watching this expecting the same experience as the blockbuster then you need to go back and read the Mockbuster paragraph; this movie is poorly made but that's what makes it so fun to watch. The acting sucks, the visuals look like they where made by a class of graphics design students and the audio is balanced for TV.

This isn't to say its a bad-bad movie in fact its rolls the odometer back around to good its so cheesy. After I got the obligatory "Oh God" out of the way I sat down to watch the whole thing with a smirk once I knew what it was. I'm just glad I didn't pay for it and I wonder what my room mate was thinking when he bought it himself.

If you base your decision to buy this movie off my review I hope you don't pay more than $1 for this on Amazon or Itunes because its not really worth it. Wait a year or so and watch it when SyFi streams it for free. At least they changed the name so it wouldn't get confused with the real movie...

Better then expected.

[curran_adam · 5/10 · 12 March 2014]

The actual storyline for American Warships was marginally better than the Hollywood equivalent, Battleships.

The acting, for the most part was terrible, but this only meant that the half decent actors looked awesome. Carl Weathers stars as a military general and puts in a decent performance, despite his only real sparring partner being less than capable.

All in all, I have seen much worse, and this didn't mess about with any of the fluff of getting to know the characters, and just got straight to blowing stuff up.

Best line from the movie comes from Mario Van Peebles character - "You're not going to sink my Battleship!" - Brilliant.

I recon a solid 5/10 movie. Not brilliant but actually not bad either.

It's bad but I've seen worst

[Sub_Captain · 12 June 2012]

There can be many bad things to say about the film after watching Act of Valor and Battleship over the past few months. To list a few: stereo type navy seals, poor CGI and special effect, inaccurate uniform on non-essential roles, poor research on weapon systems on board...etc. However given the lack of budget for this movie it is an understandably foreseeable outcome.

Overall I think it can be worst, especially if you have seen Moby Dick (2010) in the past. At least the movie is shooting on board the real battleship rather than some mock up set inside a studio. For that I'd given the movie an extra star.

Rating 2/10. Pretty bad movie, special effect and storyline, however at least you get to see the real Iwoa Class Battleship.

warning, stay clear.

[Newhouse68 · 1/10 · 8 August 2012]

Warning! Stay clear of this movie! I rented this film at my local video store tonight. I thought I had rented the Peter Berg movie. In Norway this movie is called American BATTLESHIP. American is written in small letters and Battleship in large letters. The DVD cover picture is very similar to the Battleship DVD cover. It is a total rip off! It is clearly done so you shall think that it's the other film. Imagine my surprise when I pressed play and discovered this piece of sh..! Bad acting, lame filming and hopeless special effects. If only it had been done on purpose it would be funny. Watching this movie was a total waste of good chips and time. Too bad I have to give it one star. Should have been zero! :(

Great Show of A Great Battle Wagon

[Stanjaudit · 4/10 · 9 October 2012]

Some individuals have not looked upon this movie very favorably for many reasons. However, I'm retired military and can relate favorably to much of what was depicted in this movie. Having electrical circuits, electronics, and all things run by computer chips can be destroyed by EMP or electronic magnetic pulse unless they are hardened. It is also true that a nuclear air blast will usually do the trick. One reason the USS Iowa was able to still function was it was a WWII ship and did not have a nuclear engine and didn't have to rely on electronic circuitry to fire it's guns, although it initially did have it but didn't need it operate its guns.

Some folks got turned off by the science fiction part of it. But it was presented naturally and puzzled the crew, the National Military Control Center and the President. If there was any fault that center was only manned by a Lt Gen, the Secretary of Defense but no one else. You would usually have 4 star generals of the Army, Air Force, Marces and a Fleet Admiral as well the Secretary of Defense, and the National Security Adviser.

Regardless the acting was very good, except for the Admiral that was aboard. I felt that actor was a little over the top worrying too much that the Iowa was a museum and a warship. The movie was great and well worth time to watch.

American Warships (2012) a Joke ?

[kseeker84 · 2/10 · 31 May 2012]

This is one of worst flick I have ever seen.

Even cartoons are way better than this. Is it some kind of joke ? perhaps, Yes.

No special effects, utterly boring story line this makes this flick awful.

Common guys, even the films from nations who's names are not known are better than this.

When I saw the title, I was speculating that, I would see some good sea battle however all in vain.

Aliens shown in this flick are too spooky.

Don't expect any real acting even if you bother to watch this.

Please don't waste your time on this I as did (sadly)

A Battle Ship on its way to being turned into a museum is the last hope of mankind against alien invaders.

[DuQuense55 · 5/10 · 13 June 2012]

This movie is not all that bad. Nobody is going to win an Oscar for their performance but they do carry their roles creditably. The plot doesn't drag to much and there's enough action to keep it interesting. Nothing here is top of the line A class Hollywood big budget, but nothing is so bad it distracts from the story. I watched it when it aired on the SyFy channel and it was better than anything else that was on at the time on the rest of cable. If you're looking for something easy to watch with some good guys versus bad guys action go ahead and pop some popcorn and relax as you watch a fairly good action movie with some good looking actors and fun with ships at sea.

Realistic in a military sense and good enough

[mikekoffler · 8/10 · 21 May 2012]

Although this is not the greatest production, the military part of it was true to form. The people who rated this low were either never in the military (and don't know what goes on)or their imagination of what goes on at sea suffers a bit. The creatures the US Navy was fighting were as realistic as others I've seen in similar movies. The acting was very good, but not Oscar award winning.

The sequence of events portrayed by the military chain of command appeared to be quite within the realm of reality given the situation presented. Orders were given and executed and a "retired" naval vessel was made to operate despite its aged condition. Sixteen inch main batteries probably should not have fired as they did after 20 years of inactivity, but then it's a movie and these things are possible.

Much Better Than Its Big Budget Counterpart "Battleship"

[sddavis63 · 6/10 · 6 November 2012]

It's general low rating notwithstanding, I actually enjoyed watching "American Warships." Recently I watched the movie "Battleship." It's a big budget blockbuster that has roughly the same storyline - an old American warship forced into battle with aliens. "American Warships," however, is much more exciting and even more "believable" - to the extent that any movie of this kind can be believable.

Here, the primary warship is the World War II vintage USS Iowa, commanded by Captain Winston (played by Mario Van Peebles.) The Iowa is about to be retired and turned into a museum, and it's on its way to the US from a good will visit to South Korea, when first a South Korean island and then the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier group (also in the area) is mysteriously destroyed. Was it the North Koreans? The Chinese? No one knows, and the Iowa sets off to investigate, while the United States prepares to fight World War III. The attacks continue on various military targets, the tension ramps, a nuclear attack by the US on China (and a return attack by China on the US) is imminent, with only the Iowa (who have now figured out what's happening) standing in the way. The attackers are aliens, trying to goad the world into a nuclear war so that they can take over. The aliens also seemed far more threatening here than in "Battleship."

Basically I liked this. It's pretty exciting and tense all the way through. Van Peebles was not too bad as the Captain of the Iowa, and while having a WWII era ship beating powerful aliens in "Battleship" made little sense, in this there was a plausible (sort of anyway) explanation as to why that type of warship could succeed in such a battle - the aliens basically knocking out integrated electrical systems to facilitate their attacks (systems that weren't around in World War II) so that the Iowa had the ability to survive the aliens' most powerful advantage.

Now, there are some problems I admit. First, by the time this was over I was getting very tired of the "Star Trek" type references. We heard about cloaking devices, and ships that had to "de-cloak" before they could fire. There were references to phasers and Klingons (not to mention the fact that the aircraft carrier destroyed was the Enterprise, and the main American ship was the Iowa - where Captain Kirk was supposedly born.) All that was a little too much in your face. I liked Van Peebles, but I thought the rest of the performances were perhaps a bit uneven (and I wasn't impressed with David Polinsky as Admiral Hollis.) I also didn't think that there was any reason for having a romance between Winston and Lt. Bradley (Johanna Watts.) I also found it passing strange that the aliens, who supposedly wanted to provoke a nuclear war, would destroy two of the American bomber groups that had been sent off to be prepared to attack China? Isn't that defeating their own purposes? At least I couldn't figure that out. The closing captions of the movie suggest that this is based on a congressional act passed in 2006 retiring the Iowa but making sure that it would remain battle ready, even as it serves as a museum. So the question is: "why keep an old warship battle ready?" This is the supposed answer.

Overall, though, I thought this was a pretty exciting and enjoyable movie, much better than its reviews would suggest. (6/10)

Asylum churns another one out, and its just as lame as their other ones.

[c-conley90 · 2/10 · 19 September 2012]

American Warships aka American Battleship (thanks Hasbro/Universal) isn't very good and frankly sucks and I'm often surprised how people prefer this Asylum Rip-off over the big budget product. I know Battleship isn't that smart either or hell original. But at least it had a budget and wasn't apparently made to con suckers into picking this up at the store or renting it at red box. That and at least Battleship had some life in it compared to this, I mean this has some of the stiffest acting ever. . And these's movies are shoddy as all hell with literally PC graphic special effects. Some people say they are aware of this and it adds to the charm. Well, I don't it's just shoddy as all crap. Once again Battleship didn't have perfect special effects or anything, but at least it looked like it could afford to show a battleship being attacked. Another thing The Asylum does is apparently hire washed up actors to show up in there movie, for instance in this one both a bored looking Mario Van Peebles is in it as well as Carl "Apollo Creed" Weathers. Both looking like they would rather be in anything else. I would just say to watch this when it premieres on Syfy like we all know it will, then decide if you like its z-grade movie quality. And believe me when I say the quality is definitely Z and you will think how in the wide world a movie like this could be made in this year. It's shorter than Battleship, but really, it feels much longer than Battleship. The aliens look even more laughable than the Battleship ones, that looked like some Halo inspired aliens from the planet Who Ville apparently. The special effects are downright groan worthy, like I said at least Battleship had effects. This is Birdemic level, even the muzzle flash from the guns firing is CGI, apparently the cast was too sheepish to fire actual prop guns. Peebles and Weathers are the only two cast members with a level of actual acting skills that they use to the best they can. And marvel at the subsquent triple endings to the movie. Just when you think the movie will end it continues on and on. Plus do we need even lamer clichés than the one we have in Battleship? Bad stock footage of things like the pentagon, the Iowa at several points and the port where it's stationed. And please can the characters stop babbling about it being possible North Korean or Chinese weapons, when anybody with a brain would know that they wouldn't have that type of technology the aliens use. Lame shootouts with the aliens, and a bad climax that is to be in a word just so freaking anti-climatic.

Really bad CGI/post effects

[carsten-358-28487 · 1/10 · 12 June 2012]

First of all, the story is kinda ripoff Battleship (2012) which has just been in the cinemas.

Secondly the acting isn't the best, but thats not the problem. The problem are the different quality of the scenes. Some of them, you can see how bad the 3D/CGI rendering is done. It looks less real than a simple PC game. Other scenes where airports and islands are hit by missiles and the camera moves, you can see the overlaying explosions sliding over the buildings (revealing that they are only post-effects).

One of the female actors looks like she was sprayed with self-tanning just before shooting the movie. Also rather disturbing, making it all even more fake.

There are also some bloopers regarding the ship itself, because this ship is supposed to be a museum etc. but the doorways aren't even painted and look rusty.

All in all, I would say 85% of the movie is poorly attempt to copycat on another movie. I wonder if this movie was produced with one intent, that of being rented/sold because of the name alone, so keeping the budget low was part of the deal.

Disappointed I was... very!