Battleship

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Battleship

PG-13

2012

2h 11m

Sci-Fi

Action

Adventure

Mystery & Thriller

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Lt. Alex Hopper (Taylor Kitsch) is a weapons officer aboard the destroyer USS John Paul Jones, while his older brother, Stone (Alexander Skarsgård), is the commanding officer of the USS Sampson. Unknown to Alex, Stone or the rest of the U.S. Navy, alien invaders have arrived on Earth with plans to steal Earth's resources. When a confrontation with the invaders knocks out the Navy's radar capability, American and Japanese forces must work together to find a way to save the planet.

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Critics Consensus

It may offer energetic escapism for less demanding filmgoers, but Battleship is too loud, poorly written, and formulaic to justify its expense -- and a lot less fun than its source material.

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Ben Sachs

Chicago Reader

05/24/2012

Once the special effects take over, Berg has little room to assert his personality (or tell a story, for that matter), and the movie feels like a chore.

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Perri Nemiroff

Shockya.com

05/19/2012

2.5

Riggins and Landry in the Navy, Peter Berg Does Michael Bay, Transformers-esque, Not Really Battleship; any of those titles are just as fitting if not more so than Battleship.

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Christopher Orr

The Atlantic

05/18/2012

Battleship is substantially less awful than it could have been. And for me, that may have been the biggest disappointment of all.

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

10/19/2022

1.5/4

A derivative, nonsensical sci-fi project best described by comparing it to better movies.

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Graeme Tuckett

The Post NZ

08/26/2022

Some people will tell you that Battleship is a bad film. And they will be right. But it is still a better film than a lot of other action and effects-dominated movies out there. Especially ones based on toy franchises.

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Keith Garlington

Keith & the Movies

08/19/2022

2/5

Underneath the bombastic veneer of grinding metal, explosions, and destruction lies a corny and often times ridiculous story that can’t be saved by the fancy coat of CGI paint.

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Marco T

@RT66541431 1d

Fun and easy. Nice try for a tablegame inspired action.

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The J

@RT60227988 3d

Rihanna and the old guys are the only reason to watch this. Even the old guys was overdone. If the tech was reality the movie would have been over in 10 minutes and everyone would be dead really silly and I'm guessing a colossal waste of money. Unfortunately the boobs and bod aren't enough to float this girls career.

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Stephen O

@RT04029311 Jul 16

I was in the US Navy from 1964 to 1971. I survived the Viet-Nam War and spent extra time in the US Naval Reserve. I was a Radarman and worked inside C.I.C. or Combat Information Center. My Dad was a 34 year US Navy Veteran from WW2. He was a Radioman and then later a Lt. Commaner. So the Navy and everything about is in my blood. What I enjoyed most about this film is that it gives you an "Eye" on modern day Navy inside the CIC and the Bridge of an Arleigh-Burke Class Guided Missel Destroyer. I was on an older Adams Class DDG-9. Also, as part of my "Breakin Period" I had to climb the "Mast" and this movie shows a scene of the newer Mast. OK...there is negative shit about the fact that this whole situation is just too "far out" or stupid..?? Why..more than likely they never "Served"..!! This is a Si-Fi Movie and a very good one in that it is very possible that "we are NOT alone" on this Third Rock from the Sun. But it's a movie!! So hipathetically they can say WTF & paint a possibility!

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Jerod S

@jeroduptown Jul 11

It had some big action - but Battleship wasn't anything like what the word conjures up. And when the old guys come out to revive the US Mississippi, it gets kinda comical.

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Mitchell S.

@RT46658097 Jun 18

Oh goodness. I could only watch 15 minutes and I was done. Such a lousy movie. Burn the negative, fast.

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Paige B.

@Palan4 Jun 14

DNF: that is very rare for me but it was so bad I couldn't even get through it. Action for Action sake and even that wasn't fun to watch. Absolutely no reason to watch, find something else.

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Peter Berg

Director

Taylor Kitsch

Lt. Alex Hopper

Alexander Skarsgård

Stone

Rihanna

Petty Officer Cora Raikes

Brooklyn Decker

Sam Shane

Tadanobu Asano

Capt. Yugi Nagata

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Synopsis

Lt. Alex Hopper (Taylor Kitsch) is a weapons officer aboard the destroyer USS John Paul Jones, while his older brother, Stone (Alexander Skarsgård), is the commanding officer of the USS Sampson. Unknown to Alex, Stone or the rest of the U.S. Navy, alien invaders have arrived on Earth with plans to steal Earth's resources. When a confrontation with the invaders knocks out the Navy's radar capability, American and Japanese forces must work together to find a way to save the planet.

Director: Peter Berg
Producer: Brian Goldner, Scott Stuber, Sarah Aubrey, Duncan Henderson, Bennett Schneir
Screenwriter: Jon Hoeber, Erich Hoeber
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Production Co: Bluegrass Films, Dentsu, Film 44, Universal Pictures, Hasbro
Rating: PG-13 (Intense Sequences of Action|Intense Seq. of Destruction|Intense Sequences of Violence|Language)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 18, 2012, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 10, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $65.2M
Runtime: 2h 11m

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