After a rousing night of celebration and arguments, the blue light arrives the next morning and proceeds to suck people up into the enormous alien crafts hovering above: Jarrod, Elaine, Terry and Terry’s girlfriend and assistant all try to escape, with a degree of success only outmatched by the fact that people die in the process. Why is it that every time in the face of certain alien doom, people revert to common cliches of screaming at each other with a variety of stupid ideas to escape? Jarrod (Eric Balfour) and his pregnant girlfriend Elaine (Scottie Thompson) arrive in LA to party with Jarrod’s best friend Terry (Donald Faison), as a precursor to perhaps working for Terry at his special effects company. A group of people trapped inside a multi-story building must try to survive the alien apocalypse, with limited weapons and a complete lack of intelligence. For what reason we’re being taken, we don’t know. The alien menace is both unwavering and unstoppable: not even a nuclear weapon detonation can halt the inexorable removal of humanity from the surface of the Earth. Read with caution.Īlien craft descend on Earth, with enormous blue lights sucking the entire population of Los Angeles up into the giant ships without any warning whatsoever. Yes, the special effects are special, I’ll admit, even if the handling of them is uneven to say the least, but the central plot of the film, which is eerily similar to the more recently released Battle: Los Angeles, is a dog of a thing. Skyline is a terribly scripted, terribly plotted, and terribly acted film in every sense. I watched Skyline after Battle: LA, but felt the need to review the former first, because my initial thoughts on what the Brothers Strause delivered was so vivid from the get-go. Watching both Skyline and Battle: Los Angeles in the same weekend was certainly interesting – both films have copped their fair share of criticism from across the board, some earned and some perhaps not quite so warranted. ![]() Effects aside, this film is a debacle from beginning to end – and that end is pretty damn stupid. What we think : Skyline is a perfect example of what happens when you give two dudes better suited to special effects the controls to an entire film and expect Citizen Kane. Synopsis: Aliens invade, and a group of civilians must fight to save themselves against being captured by the vicious extra-terrestrials. Principal Cast : Eric Balfour, Scottie Thompson, Brittany Daniel, Crystal Reed, David Zayas, Daniel Faison, Neil Hopkins.
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