Woefully underrated in my opinion. The pacing was good ,never boring. Acting was decent, aliens were interesting. Fig
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Skyline
drew1116 — 13 years ago(March 10, 2013 11:13 AM)
Woefully underrated in my opinion. The pacing was good ,never boring. Acting was decent, aliens were interesting. Fight scenes were believeable and well done. This film is clearly not worthy of the criticism it has gotten although many on this forum seem to like it. I would give it a 5.5 which means it is worth watching but not paying for. My scale tends to weight movies lower than others.
Consider that this movie was made on a supposed $10 million dollar budget and it probably deserves to get bumped up a full point. Battle: Los Angeles was truly horrible and that one had seven times the budget. -
Artdoag2 — 13 years ago(March 25, 2013 04:50 AM)
I agree 100 percent. Every othr invasion movie has a come-from-behind victory where the humans prevail. Nope, in Skyline, even F-22 jets and nukes can't beat back the slimebag aliens. Its a letdown, but i guess the surprsie was humanity not winning. Works for me and where's Skyline 2??
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jgarber4444 — 12 years ago(April 16, 2013 08:44 AM)
A "realistic" alien invasion movie which follows the experience of several civilians who did not suddenly become superheroes but just thrashed around more realistically with all their human frailties struggling to come to terms with the onslaught and survivebut failing. Yes, this was a good enough idea - not unique but good enough, and we can also accept that the aliens just might be able to give us a good hiding (more than likely if aliens were ever to show up).
Sadly, the poor acting was a real letdown. The film could have been a classic as the aliens do not accommodatingly fall down and die even when nuked, or display some convenient Achilles heel for the humans to exploit as per standard alien invasion sci-fi actioners. What ruined Skyline for me particularly was an awful performance from the lead actor, Eric Balfour. His character was clearly an anti-hero, but what an insipid and uninspiring performance he gave. We needed to see a civilian overwhelmed by the events around him - including his girlfriends pregnancy - unable to act heroically, nor even able to make some sort of selfless and brave sacrifice. A fantastic, though somewhat challenging, role you'd think for a lead actor (Bruce Willis need not apply!). Sadly, Balfour looked out of his depth, lost and apparently unable to figure out his character's motivation, reactions or impulses (perhaps he was simply unhappy playing a sad loser post-invasion). I did not care whether the aliens zapped him or not, in fact, I wish they had got rid of him the moment they first landed. A very poor performance at the core of a potentially good film, and it destroyed it. No this film is not underrated, but it was sadly ruined. 4.5/10 -
dimartensson — 12 years ago(June 14, 2013 02:50 PM)
I agree, even though it was way outdrawn at some points, it was a spectacular sci-fi movie. I loved the ending.
But then again generally IMDB reverses the score; that is movies below 5 are generally better than those above 8. Take that piece of crap Inception for instance. Now that movie was a joke. -
lukekingjohnson — 12 years ago(September 23, 2013 04:11 PM)
Are you serious?
It was the biggest steaming pile of beep that's ever graced the silver screen. I was sat in the cinema grieving over my 5.00.
They kept the trailers short by showing one very intriguing moment where thousands of people get sucked up into the ship, it was a blatant lie about the films quality. This film was a shameless lie, I dont think they was even expecting anybody to like it. They are too busy laughing from their deck chairs in Barbados. -
OBwonton — 12 years ago(October 02, 2013 01:19 PM)
I love this movie! So underrated, you are right! Seems like this is one of those either love it or hate it movies. Definitely seems to be developing somewhat of a cult/underdog status,, though. A lot of people love it despite it being a critical failure.
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Dresscircle20 — 12 years ago(November 30, 2013 07:50 AM)
Nobody mentions how good the invasion monsters were! Those creatures hovering in the sky over LA were really menacing and convincing aliens. They scared me. I could imagine that when the aliens finally get here they'll look like these unpleasant creatures. Shame about the script though. There's no story, no characters (beautiful actresses though), no surprises of any kind - except the bad behaviour of the aliens. But it's worth watching for the beastly aliens.
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Max_Sydney — 12 years ago(December 25, 2013 06:38 AM)
The film had a very expensive and downright misleading advertsing campaign. Specifically, billboard where thousands of people were sucked up into gigantic ships.
It was sold as epic big-budget sci-fi like Independence Day where the action spanned entire continents. Instead what they got was an 'apartment drama'.
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twistedsoldier-885-442432 — 12 years ago(December 31, 2013 10:54 AM)
I totally agree with you, I was expecting it to be real bad with the reviews and the imdb rating but was pleasantly surprised.
Why there are a few threads stating how bad this movie is beyond me, I have seen way worse movies.
This movie deserves at least a 6 so lets look at it objectively.
1, Acting, The actors/actresses can all act as they have proven in other tv programs and flicks, granted that a lot of the acting scenes have been produced terribly, so that's not the actors/actresses fault (I have seen way worse get better reviews). I would rate this 4.5/10
2, Writing, Nice storyline, a bit different from what we are used too, so its nice to see something 'out of the box'. The script also isn't too bad but it seems as though the actors have been told to stick with it 100%, where as other movies, the actors have been told to go with the flow and say something if u feel it will add realism which has proven to be very effective. 7/10
3, Directing, As much as the story was pretty well told and some left for the imagination, plus the CGI scenes was pretty good. The only thing that let the directing down was some of the acting scenes as stated above and with the acting being one of the biggest parts aside from cgi, let this movie down a lot. 4/10
4, Cinematix, This was very good and made the film enjoyable to watch, especially if you're a scifi fan, not to mention some of the scenes was astounding for the budget, 8.5/10
5, Over all feel, Although some of the acting could have been produced better and reshot, the rest of the film was pretty good and the storyline is something different to the usual scifi flicks we watch. I await the second part to this trilogy as much as I do ID2&3. 8/10
In total imho this movie is at least 6.4/10
If the production was slightly better, then this movie should be at least a 7 based on A class movies. If I was to rate this move for B class then I would definitely give this a 9/10.
There are very few movies I can watch past the first viewing but this alongside other decent scifi flicks, I have watched over 4 times.
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Bubblegum_Boo — 10 years ago(September 19, 2015 06:39 AM)
The bad reviews made me steer clear of Skyline, but one bored evening on Netflix I decided to give it a go and to my surprise.. it was awesome! Yeah, the characters are mostly flimsy and annoying, there's barely a story there, but when the action starts Holy Christ!!.. The aliens in this movie are completely badass, looking amazing (in a perverse kinda way) and wreak havoc virtually non-stop. It's like the videogame Crysis came to life except there's no hero. The movies' conclusion is utterly bizarre. but in a good way. The ultimate popcorn movie.
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