Very disappointing...

Thanks for the memories!

Admirable film.

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

I saw this when it came out, and i was just truly and utterly shocked by how amazingly bad it was. I can hardly remember the details of it after all these years (thank god), but i remember very well what made the movie fail so gloriously- the premise of the story (only revealed at the ending) is just remarkably idiotic, the movie is very drawn out and repetitive, all taking place in or on that stupid apartment building, the CGI is.... "eh", the design of the alien crafts is completely generic and without imagination, and their whole alien apocalypse thing just feels very labored, drawn out, uninspired and dumb.. really felt like an amateur movie, me and my friends were just amazed by how bad it was and while we were leaving the cinema we just had to tell any stranger coming in and passing by us to NOT GO SEE SKYLINE, just for the chance of saving another soul from wasting money and suffering through this awful crappy movie... I'm sorry for the producers but i really REALLY hated this film..

Mercifully this movie is short. Even as it is short, it is much too long. In short, Earth is invaded by bug-creature/space-dinasaurs/alien-mongrels with definite orc qualities, apart from that the larger one seems self repairing. Of course earth defenses are over-run in 3 days. While the larger ones are self-repairing, the smaller ones are killable by axe. And while earth forces are putting up token resistance, earth seems to have developed scripted explosions and falling aircraft parts that avoids maiming the main characters of the story in explosions in the range of 10 meters. But this is nothing to the deficiency of the unstopable invaders that create indestructible war ships, manage space flight, but can't equip photographic arms with 350 degree lenses.If you still think this is a good a worthy film to spend your time on, please remember the Internet saying "What has been seen, cannot be unseen." I am talking about the ending of course. Why someone in any fram of mind would think that spending the rest of your miserable life in a cell surrounded by dead or dying people waiting to be harvested is a hopeful ending should be beyond any rational thinking being. But apparently not, and it is probably the only derense that works against the aliens - poison them with idiot brains and ideas....The ending deducts 2 from the total score.

Cannot for the life of me understand the low rating but I presume it is because of the more true to life ending and lack of the usual clichéd American happy ending.For a low budget movie this one pulled out all the stops and is in my top ten of alien invasion movies.This is what would happen if aliens arrived - no schmaltzy good guys win in the end and that's what makes this a true classic as it veered away from the usual story lines and did its own thing. If an alien invasion force were able to navigate space to come to earth we truly would be ended - Just ask Stephen Hawking!Loved the main characters too and for the budget in which it was made it has to be commended. The truly original special effects; even the sound effects which were novel and not stolen from some other movie this deserves its place in the all time scifi top 50!

I'll just say this - My son and I went to see this when it was released and we love scifi, aliens, adventure, CGI flashy lights and twisty plot lines.We use skyline for the basis for judging all other scifi movies - when I say "baseline" I mean the ZERO POINT - and so far nothing has sucked as much as skyline. nothing.I'm giving you back 1 hour and 37 minutes of your life. you're welcome.:)