Battleship Review

Battleship


Release Date: 12th April 2012 - Australia


Production Companies
Battleship Delta Productions
Film 44
Hasbro
Ponysound
Stuber Productions

Distribution 
Universal Pictures Australia


Genre: Sci-Fi

Rating: M

Runtime: 131 minutes


Budget: $209,000,000

Box Office Gross: $303,025,485
(Worldwide)


Plot Summary
Based on the classic Hasbro
naval combat game,

Battleship is the story of an 

international fleet of ships 

who come across an alien 

armada whilst on a Naval 

war games exercise. An 

intense battle ensues over
sea, land and air. What do
they aliens - known as 'The
Regents' want?


Cast
Taylor Kitsch - Lt. Alex Hopper
Alexander Skarsgard - Stone Hopper
Brooklyn Decker - Samantha Shane
Rihanna - Petty Officer 

(GM2) Cora Raikes
Liam Neeson - Vice Admiral Shane
Tadanobu Asano - Captain Nagata
Gregory D. Gadson - Lt. Col
Mick Canales

Crew
Producer/Director - Peter Berg
Writers - Erich & Jon Hoeber
Executive Producers - Braden Aftergood and Jon Mone
Producers - Sarah Aubrey,
Brian Goldner, Duncan
Henderson, Bennett Schneir & Scott Stuber
Co-Producer/Unit Production Manager - Todd Arnow
Co-Producer/First Assistant Director - Eric Heffron
Production Designer - Neil Spisak
Lead Conceptual Designer - George Hull

Set Decorator - Larry Dias
Costume Designers - Louise Mingenbach &
Kimberly A. Tillman
Marine Consultant - Daniel F. Malone
Cinematography - Tobias A. Schliessler
Special Effects Supervisor - Burt Dalton
Visual Effects Supervisors: ILM - Grady Cofer
& Pablo Helman
Visual Effects Supervisor: Double Negative -
Nathan McGuinness

Visual Effects Producer - Kevin Elam
Visual Effects Art Director: ILM - Aaron McBride
Computer Graphics Supervisor - Willi Geiger
Film Editors - Colby Parker Jr,
Billy Rich & Paul Rubell
Music Consultant - Dave Jordan
Music - Steve Jablonsky

Review

'BATTLESHIP' is full of action with thrills, explosions and even pretty cool visuals. I actually thought that the film was quite great, but now instead I think it was actually a disappointment. It was quite similar to the first 'Transformers' movie by Michael Bay which I find to be a case of copycatting. It's actually based on a board game which was the main problem. I believe that this starting point made the picture look ridiculous and adding to it were aliens and direction by Peter Berg. None of these factors are going to help the movie. I'm no huge fan of the singer Rihanna, but her acting debut is alright, but not fantastic. I only praise the other actors who did a good job in the movie such as Taylor Kitsch and Liam Neeson.

For those who have played the Battleship game, I thought I was going to encourage you to see this movie adaptation, but I didn't really know that 'BATTLESHIP' was either good, average or bad. Having seen it now, let me get this straight, I've changed my mind and it did sink. Just stick with the board game.

Star rating: (3/5) Average

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