Peter Berg's "Battleship" is one of my greatest disappointments at all. A flat, elemental and totally non-original film that falls on every level and demonstrates that wherever deservedly, where the blatantly blasted Michael Bay is an unsurpassed genius with regard to this kind of high-budget blockbuster, in which the effects and blasts have a major role to play. To the question of what I expect from a 200 million-dollar film based on elementary play that kids play at school, just to get the time going faster, I have to say that I was just hoping to have fun in the way I did it on the first movies of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" and the Transformers series, which, as you know, were created with no less ridiculous things like an amusement park and a series of toys.
The problem is that the only really fun moment is at the very beginning when we meet the drunk hero of Taylor Kitch, Hooper, who is trying to impress the sexy Sam.. This is the only attempt for some more original and interesting development of the characters. Everything else is a variation on the subject. In search of habitable planets, scientists send a signal into space that attracts an intelligence team of technologically superior, hostile aliens who come to Earth and create an outpost to prepare the ground for the arrival of their main troops. This alone would not have been such a tragedy (even more, it was previously known that this conflict would be the basis of the story). Michael Bay also uses the US Army, but Peter Burgh outperforms both the scale and the cheap. The most irritating is the pathos that makes everything happen. At one point, all the modern destroyers trapped in the alien's force field are destroyed, and our heroes are forced to use an old warship that is currently serving only as a monument. The problem is that in the digital age, none of them is able to drive the archaic machine and they are forced to turn to a group of 60-70 year old veterans with the words "You have done so much for your country and no one has the right to ask you whatever, but I will still do it and ask for help. "
There are cantons and miracles that can make you feel bad. Another moment is the entire Pearl Harbor syndrome, which still hurts Americans. Here we have a symbolic reconciliation of Japan and the United States in the face of Hooper and his original enemy, who ultimately become "best friends," and together they are drawing up the strategy for alien combat. And it seems as if all this is not enough, and a soldier who has lost both legs and left without a desire for struggle and life - has yet to hypocritically honor this group of people - who together with the love object Sam (who is the therapist ) leads the land battle without which our heroes in the ocean have no chance. Unfortunately, two of the things that could make up for all this cheap and patriotism - the notorious tone and the cool effects - are also failing. Everything is so pathetic and serious that even the few really fun moments sink with bangs and crashes. Not to mention the basic "comic relief", one of the scientists responsible for attracting aliens - he is one of the most irritating and unnatural heroes. The effects are unimpressive and uninteresting, and there is not even a single point or scene of so-called "money shots" in which to say "very good." John Paul Jones's final break-in is approaching, but sterile compared to the Titanic sinking, for example, or Arizona in Pearl Harbor. The same applies to extraterrestrials, which are super-derivative (their inspiration from space) and their only interesting feature is the strange beards. For the actors I did not say anything, but what to say - they do everything possible with the material, and Rihanna does not do the best. In conclusion, I will mention once again that "Battleship" is a huge disappointment and I can not regret the fact that behind this movie is Peter Berg, who once had a super promising career as a director.