Skyline
Universal Pictures | Release Date: November 12, 2010
3.4
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Tss5078Feb 23, 2013
Skyline was the worst reviewed movie of 2010 and not without cause. Basically it's a different version of War of The Worlds, with less of a storyline, and a ridiculous ending. The sad part of this whole thing is that the movie started outSkyline was the worst reviewed movie of 2010 and not without cause. Basically it's a different version of War of The Worlds, with less of a storyline, and a ridiculous ending. The sad part of this whole thing is that the movie started out really good. After the event, I was on the edge of my seat, and then it all goes downhill from there. Eric Balfour is such a good actor, but he's constantly being cast in these subpar movies. I don't understand why nobody wants to offer him a role in a major motion picture. Once again he's very good and engaging in a movie that just crashes and burns. The special effects were cool, the acting wasn't bad, but the story stinks and the further into it you get, the more you keep asking yourself, why am I still watching this?… Expand
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djcmusicJan 7, 2012
Thrilling at times, looks great, but unfourtanetly the story just doesn't expand out very far. I mean once you get to the end and you find out what the movie overall is about you'll find yourself thinking, is that it? Wanna tell me a littleThrilling at times, looks great, but unfourtanetly the story just doesn't expand out very far. I mean once you get to the end and you find out what the movie overall is about you'll find yourself thinking, is that it? Wanna tell me a little more about the aliens maybe? Thats the big problem here, they show me some bad ass imagery of aliens in this movie, but little explanation about them really. We learn a few things but thats about them and thats it. The movie ends having just an A story kinda teasing us with a B by not saying too much about the aliens and sticking to this decent but kinda lame story of some guy protecting his pregnant gf all the time. Good, but not great.… Expand
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csw12Sep 2, 2012
Skyline has some of the worst acting ever put on screen. The only reason why it isn't a 0 is because of the twist at the end, so it wasn't predictable. Problem the ending was so discombobulated it made my head dizzy.
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RikiegeDec 23, 2012
A very fictional movie and meaningless ... but it is entertaining.
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Jack97Jan 1, 2014
Skyline is a huge disappointment of a sci-fi film as the story has no real excitement. The special effects are okay but they are overshadowed and forgotten thanks to the dull acting and premise.
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jfrotylpe532Dec 21, 2012
Was this movie bad or what ? As if AVP was terrible, good grief look at what a mess this film was. The plot was basically was do what your not supposed to do and get killed for it.
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Compi24Nov 28, 2012
Not even the somewhat impressive special effects can sweep this movie's horrific acting and storytelling under the proverbial rug.
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worleyjamersDec 8, 2012
This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. There's a scene towards the end of the movie where the main character says something like this: "What are you going to do when all the blinds fall down? It's not exactly like we have a lot more bed sheets!" It was in the moment where I began shaking my head in complete dismay as to what the hell I was watching. The screenplay, the cast, the acting, everything was just terrible. The effects were the only thing going for this film, but even those were either blurry or hidden by bright lights. Skyline is horrible and one of the worst of 2010.… Expand
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Rox22Dec 12, 2013
It's not often that anything can negatively surprise me. This movie is all hype and no delivery. Yes there are some utterly stunning special effects, but that's it. I really can not say anything else positive about this movie.

The story isIt's not often that anything can negatively surprise me. This movie is all hype and no delivery. Yes there are some utterly stunning special effects, but that's it. I really can not say anything else positive about this movie.

The story is cliched, unoriginal and completely falls flat. Acting is just as substandard as a high budget movie could produced. Worst of all, the movie is utterly boring. There are some action packed scenes, but they have almost no resonances and when they are over the tone drops dead.

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Skyline does look like it had an interesting premise and the delivery at times is creative. But these points are overshadowed by all its other failings. It should be obvious by now that the Strause brothers should stick to special effects, clearly directing and producing is not their forte.… Expand
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Annoymous1May 3, 2013
"Movie of the year', seriously. That tagline is the WORST. It should be, WORST movie of the year. Disappointing that they made this movie, it should not have been made in the first place.
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UtopianStuffMay 27, 2013
Yay, Skyline! What did I think of it, its horse crap. Nothing much to say about this movie, watch it if you want a migraine. Skyline's irrelevant story line was so appalling, I wanted to get up and leave the theater. THE MOVIE IS BULL SH**!Yay, Skyline! What did I think of it, its horse crap. Nothing much to say about this movie, watch it if you want a migraine. Skyline's irrelevant story line was so appalling, I wanted to get up and leave the theater. THE MOVIE IS BULL SH**! The movie has no plot other than the fact that there are a few characters that you won't give a CRAP about just running around in circles and hiding from overly aggressive aliens. There is no plot, all you have are a couple of generic characters that can't act if their LIVES depended on it, a plot line that was possibly written by a preschooler who completed the script an crayon, an ending that is possibly promoting a sequel that NO ONE wants and dialog that you would find among 5 year olds. SKIP THIS PIECE OF DOG CRAP!… Expand
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RecycledAirJul 4, 2013
A sorry excuse for a film. "Skyline" was an abomination of a film, the acting was abismal, the camera work was terrible, the special effects were headache inflicting, the movie has no perks whatsoever. I'm capable of watching mindless popcornA sorry excuse for a film. "Skyline" was an abomination of a film, the acting was abismal, the camera work was terrible, the special effects were headache inflicting, the movie has no perks whatsoever. I'm capable of watching mindless popcorn flicks, but this movie wasn't even that, there is no action. The entire premise is as simple as this: a couple of people witness an alien invasion and in many failed attempts to flee their apartment building which is swarming with these generic brain craving aliens, they spend the entire movie running in circles while in hysterics. The movie is not worth a cent. No sci-fi movie goer will like this movie, neither will any other movie goer. Its one of the most terrible films I've seen in years and it should be avoided at all costs. Just don't watch this movie, stay away.… Expand
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MichiganGamerAug 22, 2013
Bad acting, stupid plot, a trailer that shows us the best parts of the movie and misleads us into thinking this train wreck is any good. This sucked. Ever since I see this, I compare sub-par movies to it. This is the ONLY thing that's comeBad acting, stupid plot, a trailer that shows us the best parts of the movie and misleads us into thinking this train wreck is any good. This sucked. Ever since I see this, I compare sub-par movies to it. This is the ONLY thing that's come from seeing this movie. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME.… Expand
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Jack_SunshineMay 29, 2014
This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I’m not going spend a huge amount of time on this one, because it came out four years ago, and honestly, it’s really not worth it. But it’s not often that I’d rate a film so low. I’ve seen a lot of films that would be easy to criticise, but I always salvage some kind of entertainment value. At the very least, you’re along for the ride. With Skyline, I can’t even say that.

This film just happened to be on TV this month; I’d heard of it, and I saw that it had Donald Faison in it, who was always funny as Turk in Scrubs. Skyline isn’t a comedy, and he’s wasted, although he’s clearly the most engaging member of the cast. As if to rub salt in the wound, he disappears fairly early on, but not before setting up a trite soap-opera love triangle, the tension of which is completely destroyed when all the parties are unceremoniously offed. The rest of the cast is even more forgettable.

The film opens with a mysterious blue light filtering through the window as our characters wake up in a penthouse apartment. Just as something interesting might be about to happen, we flash back to the previous day for some character exposition. We have to sit through everyone partying in the penthouse the night before, meeting each other and even more unnecessary extras that will vanish completely come morning.

I understand why they wanted to have an intriguing credits sequence. Nobody would sit through twenty minutes of inconsequential partying if they film started that with without any other explanation. We’d have no idea where it was going or what the film was even about. The problem is that we still have to sit through the inconsequential partying in order to find out what it’s all about.

The answer is that it’s an alien invasion film. The blue light has a kind of enticing beauty that causes anyone who stares into it to walk willingly into the aliens’ death machines. I do think this is an interesting idea. The concept that the aliens possess intelligence so superior to our own that they can manipulate us as easily as we draw moths to a deadly electric lamp (or how deep-sea fish lure their play with a glowing lure) is truly chilling.

The effects are good, as they should be considering that the directors are really visual effects artists by trade. The visuals cost $10 million of the film’s budget, while the live-action stuff was done on the cheap, shot in the directors’ apartment building for half a million, almost as an afterthought. There are big monsters, alien spaceships swooping around, tentacles grabbing people and all the rest.

The film just falls down completely on any kind of convincing plot or characters. You simply do not care about anyone. They behave unpleasantly towards each other and formulate ludicrous plans, such as making for a boat to escape the flying aliens, or driving across town in loud, high-powered sports cars. You spend more time questioning the stupidity of these half-baked choices than invested in the story. But this is just talk: the characters barely leave their apartment, and don’t even die as the result of their bad decisions. They seem to be dispatched at random, as if nothing matters.

Conceptually, everything’s incredibly derivative. Some aliens fly around trailing tentacles like the machines from The Matrix (1999), the large monsters stumble around and crush cars like in Jurassic Park (1993) and climb buildings like King Kong (1933), and the government unsuccessfully tries to nuke the mother ship like in Independence Day (1996).

Similarly, it can be no coincidence that the film came out around the same time as Battle: Los Angeles (2011), a higher profile LA-set invasion film. I haven’t seen that one, but the effects for both were done by Hydraulx Entertainment – the visual effects company owned by Greg and Colin Strause: the directors of Skyline.

If the characters blandness wasn’t egregious enough, you even question the logic or motivation of the aliens. They possess invincible ships with regenerative abilities and lights with the ability to utterly entice humanity. They can suck billions from the streets of a city in minutes, but need to devote resources to sending scouts door to door to pick off every last individual human, and they feel the need to supplement this with a pack of gigantic monsters whose motivation is to wreck up the place. Finally, they want to harvest our brains, which for some reason can perfectly interface with their technology.

The simplicity of the name ‘Skyline’ carries a certain amount of elegant gravitas which it utterly fails to capitalise on. It may have some merits as a special effects exercise, but nothing more. There’s nothing here that isn’t done much more successfully in other movies. If you want tune out your brain (before the aliens abduct it) and watch an overblown invasion, do yourself a favour: go back and watch Independence Day (1996).… Expand
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Mr_NoFaceSep 15, 2013
skyline skyline skyline why was it even made the story to this is so badly written i still want to know who thought it was a good idea to make this film, here's a spoiler for the hole film... they only leave the bloody hotel room about 90%skyline skyline skyline why was it even made the story to this is so badly written i still want to know who thought it was a good idea to make this film, here's a spoiler for the hole film... they only leave the bloody hotel room about 90% way through the film! all the film is basically is a group of people watching the world go by into chaos and while there watching they also have freak out moments what is just stupid all there doing is trying to survive in this one little hotel room where they had a party from last night, they try and make them self hidden from the aliens by hanging rags of blankest on the windows, yeah because they wouldn't find the only room with the windows covered suspicious, what was the budget again? $10–20 million WHAT DID THAT GO ON some fancy effects what make there eyes glow amd give them some thinker veins, a monster that kills some people that are hardly intresstin to watch and that i have no feelings for and also the ending... oh god not the ending this has the worst part of this film like most films there is a guy and girl who are together in this the guys brain like many others has been put in to these giant robot bodys and he is the only one that takes over the body you know the only one out of thousends of people, he runs to where he can here his wife or girl friend screaming then attacks the main boss like thing then it ends, im not joking or cutting any thing out thats how it goes theres no fight scene or anything to look like or show that its the end its just CUT end thats it... this was written by two people Joshua Cordes and Liam O'Donnell i guess the saying two minds are better then one doesn't work for that cant write… Expand
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MarkT2014Dec 29, 2014
Don't get me wrong, the movie is probably one of the worst science fiction movies out there.

HOWEVER The ending scene is probably one of the best Alien/UFO/SF concepts I've seen in a very long time. The only reason I'm giving this movieDon't get me wrong, the movie is probably one of the worst science fiction movies out there.

HOWEVER

The ending scene is probably one of the best Alien/UFO/SF concepts I've seen in a very long time. The only reason I'm giving this movie 5 instead of 0.

If the movie started where it ends and expanded upon that, this movie would probably be rated above 8.
It is amazing to me how someone can turn the whole movie into a complete trash and then in last five minutes come up with such unbelievable concept. How? Why the hell didn't you make the whole movie like that?

Most people probably didn't even see these last 10 minutes of the movie, because they probably got way to bored before the end. And I can't blame them. The whole movie is so bad, and last 10 minutes do not make up to that.

So my advice to everyone, first watch last 10 minutes of the movie and then decide if you wanna see the whole film.… Expand
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ChrisTaylor94Aug 8, 2014
I am so glad I didn't see this in the cinema. I loved the trailer and I thought I would to see this movie, but this is probably my least favourite movie of all time. A completely unambitious movie with terrible performances, a plotline whichI am so glad I didn't see this in the cinema. I loved the trailer and I thought I would to see this movie, but this is probably my least favourite movie of all time. A completely unambitious movie with terrible performances, a plotline which wasn't even worth an hour and completely unlikable caricatures of characters.

This movie had nothing. No sort of reason to care for the characters, no sort of depth (even a little) from the story. The special effects while they may be great, they are certainly not a merit. It makes Bay's movies look like masterpieces. Also about the characters, not enough time spent on them to even feel like there was any characterization, let alone decent ones.… Expand
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CineAutoctonoDec 25, 2015
Skyline was a very boring movie but in other opinion is very absurd sense , such as that can not win if these aliens ?, This is an insult , that causes us to demand to do some sequels , and the second stay we expected
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CaillouPettisMay 17, 2016
The first time I saw Skyline was opening day in theatres, when I was ten years old. I went along with a friend to this film, who was very excited about seeing this, and I was a little excited too. Almost every 10 year old boy you would expectThe first time I saw Skyline was opening day in theatres, when I was ten years old. I went along with a friend to this film, who was very excited about seeing this, and I was a little excited too. Almost every 10 year old boy you would expect to love this movie. Most 10 year old's love to see cool aliens, and explosions, right? Skyline was the first time I hated a movie-going experience in my life. I did not like this movie even as a 10 year old.

Skyline is full of very uninteresting characters, which right off the bat, felt like they were lacking story behind them. The story of this film is very boring and non unique. Another typical "end of the world" or "alien" type movie does not sound promising anymore; and Skyline proves this.

Skyline takes place in the same location during the 1hr and 40min runtime (which felt more around 3 hours), except for the last 5-10 minutes of this movie. There was no sense of discovery in this movie, or character development because of this, along with many other reasons.

The action scenes in Skyline are there, which are the only watchable part of this movie. But that does not change how bad this movie truly is.… Expand
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BroyaxJun 21, 2023
Bah c’est marrant, ce film a un nom de bagnole ! pourtant… on ne voit aucune Skyline dans ce film. Mais il y a une jolie Ferrouille (360 Modena, on dirait… mais je suis pas expert en ferrailleries, cela dit).

L’affiche est assez parlante :Bah c’est marrant, ce film a un nom de bagnole ! pourtant… on ne voit aucune Skyline dans ce film. Mais il y a une jolie Ferrouille (360 Modena, on dirait… mais je suis pas expert en ferrailleries, cela dit).

L’affiche est assez parlante : il s’agit d’un « Independence Day » du pauvre en somme. Les envahisseurs sont là (il avait raison, Vincent !) et ils vous aspirent ! et c’est carrément vachement mieux que n ‘importe quel « ID » ou autre connerie démoulée par le baltringue Roland Emmerich (sauf « 2012 », tout de même mais je dis ça de mémoire, faut dire qu’il en a fait des merdouilles, cette andouille !).

En outre, aucun « Will Smith » n’est là pour salir le film et le tirer vers le bas, tout en bas, jusqu’au tréfonds de la nullité nulle à chier ! Les effets spéciaux ont mobilisé tout le budget et c’est de la belle ouvrage, ma foi. Du coup, la distribution est peu ou pas connue et un brin à la masse… (mais y a pas Will le grand con, non, non) et la réalisation pour sa part, n’est pas cut mais s’avère un peu trop move…

Le temps d’exposition aurait gagné à être plus court mais ensuite, on ne s’ennuie pas le moins du monde et ce, jusqu’à la fin ! une fin un peu… étrange qui fait penser à un autre film de SF, d’ailleurs. Mais soit. Un film certes nanaresque mais tout à fait divertissant !… Expand
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Lit_WizMay 15, 2020
Rambling, incoherent storyline, accentuated with B acting. Two decent special effects money shots.
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BanthasalesmanJun 26, 2020
Don't... please just don't, it will be 1 hour and 32 minutes of your life you could spend doing something better, like trimming your grandfather's toenails. Poor Eric Balfour, the script probably sounded great in theory, but all the money wasDon't... please just don't, it will be 1 hour and 32 minutes of your life you could spend doing something better, like trimming your grandfather's toenails. Poor Eric Balfour, the script probably sounded great in theory, but all the money was spent on the special effects of the alien ships and nothing was spent on the sets or other actors. AGAIN DON'T WATCH THIS… Expand
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EinRand67Jan 19, 2023
Decent alien invasion movie without the moral pandering and virtue signaling that have ruined scifi fantasy flicks a decade later. Baffeld by the bad rating. The ending alone earns it a Cult Classic in the pantheon SciFi films.
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