I've liked Zayas since "Oz."
I'd never heard of the movie before I happened across it on Netflix W.I., so I didn't have those key moments ruined for me; I can see how that would put a damper on the surprise factor.
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I think one of the main problems was that in the initial trailers the surprise kills were already shown. You knew the Ferrari was going to get smashed and you knew the rescue helicopter was going to get destroyed. Two very key moments of the movie were already ruined.
I did enjoy it however and rated it a 6/10. Was it something I will watch again? Probably not, and the more I see David Zayas the more I think he should just stick to Dexter. However the ending made me curious as to what happens next and I actually look forward to the sequel.

@ the OP: I totally agree! And I don't understand all the complaints about the ending; I thought it was much more satisfactory than Cloverfield's ending.
Also, there were stereotypes I expected (such as Terry returning unharmed) that didn't occur, and that was refreshing.
Plus, I always enjoy David Zayas!
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The ending had a very unique twist to it.

beep what ending? The movie had no ending. I can't believe all the people praising the film says the movie even has an ending.

Totally agree with you, the low score is definitely undeserved. I also thought the effects were damn good considering the low budget.
Yes the movie did borrow from others but there was enough originality in the alien character design to easily set it apart from the rest. I really hope they make another.

Vastly underrated. If I ever see another big name Hollywood production where they spent mega amounts of money and didn't yet get any suspense or mystery or freshness into the story I'll compare it to this one that managed it all on a shoestring budget.
This is not a perfect movie, the actors are only average and a trifle dull much of the time. It's not a story where the characters are in control.
(It's that I'm sure that bothers a lot of the nay-Sayers more than they know.)
The effects, animation concepts and creativity, first rate. There are real thrills in this movie. Brilliant!

SADLY UNDERRATED. I have seen many sci-fi alien flix YES I AM A SCI-FI junkie so Im allowed to critic. The ending blew me away! I just have to say that the whole concept of the story was great! The acting may not have been Oscar worthy but that doesn't make this a bad movie.. I cant believe that so many people didn't like this movie PURELY based off the fact that it didn't have a happy ending (humans win)sad ending (everyone dies) a common ENDING the audiences are used to..The ending had a very unique twist to it. Now most can say that this movie STEALS from other flix and is so NOT original but..honestly if they would just PAY ATTENTION to the film and leave the comparisons at home they would CLEARLY SEE HOW UNIQUE IT WAS.
You know, the audience just freaks out when they see something OUT OF THE NORM and if they don't understand it, they hate it..
Skyline 2 is in the works and I will be seeing it.
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Nah, I've weighed the good and the bad of this movie and come up with a 5 out of 10 rating, and I think that's being awfully generous to this "struggle" of a movie. I struggled to get through it and it struggled to be a decent movieand it didn't quite make it.
Cobbling together an "ending" like it did, and having to sit through an hour-plus of ineffectual, unlikable, annoying characters is NOT the way to make a movie, my friend. By about half-way through the movie, I was cheering on the aliens, just wishing they'd assimilate the whiny, indecisive turds that I was forced to watch go cattle-like to their doom. I like Donald Faison, Eric Balfour, and Brittany Daniel, and the pregnant character-actress (Scottie Thompson, had to look her name up)they're good actors/actresses, but I wish they hadn't thrown in with this lot, these producers/directors of such "inadequate-ness".
I give it a couple of stars in rating because I didn't turn it off before finishing it. A few more stars for visual styling and effects, but the rest (mainly the story and the whiny, ineffectual characters) make this movie fall flat on its sorry face. I don't like to waste my time and spend my money on something that is disappointing and pointless. I would have given it a slightly higher rating (maybe 6 stars out of 10) if the writers/production company had said, at the beginning of the movie, that "This movie will go nowhere, you will gain nothing from it, so here's your money back. Sorry to have gotten your hopes up that you were going to get to watch a good movie, but this is all we could come up with and we know it's crap." Yes, maybe 6 stars if they had spared me this waste of time/money.
The only thing I "expect" out of a movie is to be entertained, to NOT be disappointed, and to have gained something from it. The rest is just gravy. This movie had very little redeeming it from being utterly garbage. The more I think about it, the more I'd like to start reducing my rating. Ugh. I won't be paying to watch the "sequel", I know that.

I agree with you, Enge1l02. TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON blew this mega-flop out of the water!

I guess you haven't watched other Alien movies to compare it with.
This movie was a headache.

I saw it last night and I liked it. Thought the ending reeked of "sequel", and I hope so; otherwise, it's a rather abrupt ending. And the flash card thing; did they perhaps run over budget, and this is what they were left with?
Still liked it, though.
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The only category this movie is underrated in is that of 'worst movie of all time'. This film was steaming hot garbage, and I'm not one to hate on films really, I've seen plenty of rubbish but this film took the cake.

I have to permanently disagree with you on that point, Tedakin. It is undeniably worthy of all the hatred and negative reviews.
In fact, it is like the PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE of the 21st century!

I've heard little other than damning, scathing reviews of this movie. While it's geared towards the youth and/or somewhat simple-minded and was typical Hollywood folly, I rated it a 5.5/10. Which, on my rating scale means:
(Merely Okay) Very ordinary. They aren't completely worthless, but you can find numerous better choices.
Not quite deserving of the 4.5 rating it currently has on the IMDB.
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I thought it was a load of tripe and should have been called, "People frantically running around a building, flailing their arms."
It started out good, but then it looked like the writers went to sleep as the majority of the movie became people running around a building. Not much of a plot there, and the characters in the film never developed. That was pretty much the sentiment of the audience I heard grumbling as they left the theater feeling cheated.

The still shots were meant to indicate that the entire world was affected, not just LA. The movie definitely has a conclusion. Essentially, humanity loses.
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And I have seen plenty of independent movies that are spades better than this piece of trash. And many other movies also fail because they make a movie too big for their own good.
Seeing as how CHARACTERS and WRITING in Skyline aren't important? wtf are you talking about? Missed the point? No lol I didn't miss the point, this movie was trying to be a serious movie with deep characters, writing.
And of course, that is what PEOPLE GO WATCH MOVIES FOR, this movie took itself entirely serious when it came down to writing and completely failed. if I wanted to go watch an action movie I would of went to go watch a good action movie, and even some of the best action movies don't need to be that deep but the characters are at-least likable and contain witty dialogue and appeal to the people who like the genre.
I've seen a lot of alien invasion movies and this is by far one of the worst big budget movies.
LoL what kind of MOVIE-goer are you? not a very good one.
And I've seen tons of independent movies that didn't have a big cast or known characters that are much better than this piece of crap.
And you know what? some independent movies are able to get celebrities even when it is LOW BUDGET.
Skyline did contain a few celebrities but they killed one off so early lol. Talk about using your star power to the full potential. This movie fails.

Battle LA was ok. Nice emotional experience in a can with that sappy score they shoved up our ass. I did get teary eyed during that heart to heart between the misunderstood captain and his jocks. That scene lasted 40 minutes longer than it needed to but still I get the point. And the aliens were using weaponry that was about 11 years further advanced than what we currently use on earth. So street cred for that.
Skyline, being just the prequel to what they had originally been working on, is a really cool movie despite it's actors.
Think about it. The movie was made independently in-house, without any financial backing from a major studio. So, they weren't able to afford a big name cast, or top notch writers. So the acting and the dialogue is only as could as it can be with what they had.
But, seeing as how the characters and writing in Skyline aren't as important to the big picture (which skyline is just a part of) as the ending of skyline, and what is to follow, yes you and everyone else did miss the point.

LOL what?
I didn't get the point of this movie? So the movie was about the Aliens? Not the main character? hahahaha wow.
No it's the fact that they practically did nothing half the time, and no I don't blame the producers these 2 directors are just beep AVP R was even worse than Skyline.
Sure it aint Will Smith but at-least Independence Day and will smith made a terrible movie Much more entertaining than a boring piece of trash this one was.
ID was at-least competent in making likable characters with great and fun action sequences unlike a huge Bore of a movie this was.
That being said so was Battle LA a by far much more superior movie compared to Skyline.

I can't believe how often people post the same thing about Skyline. They didn't care about the characters. LOL. WHO F-ING CARES ABOUT THE CHARACTERS.; They're alien feed. The FBI'd be sifting through alien droppings in order to identify the dead.
You people are missing the point of this movie. This movie, of course, and also the fact that it's a setup for something much bigger that will probably not even involved a bunch of human characters.
Because this is a directors vision put directly to the screen, instead of what usually happens someone has a n idea and then Hollywood dumbs it down and beep it all up, this is someones idea here that has actually made it to the screen relatively in tact. And people can't handle it because Will Smith isn't throwing out his one liners and their aren't any shots of the white house being blown up and the empire state building getting pwnd.

A GEM? wow, people truly have terrible tastes in movies.
The script was extremely lazy, I felt absolutely no love for any of the whiny bitchy characters in the entire movie. The movie if anything is just a typical Alien Invasion story told in such a boring fashion with characters who don't do beep until the very end.

Underrated? Good. Leave this gem to the real fans.