Fantastic!

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Must see this! Otherwise you will never believe, how bad a movie can be! Absurd plot, terrible acting and CG so poor, that average computer game has 10 times better! But it gets its second star for USS Iowa and clear sentiment that makers of the movie had for her...

This is in no way a good movie, but it is at least as good (or bad) as movie "Battleship" (2012)(qv) and, from a business standpoint was obviously made for significantly less money.May contain spoilers.The basic plot is similar enough to "Battleship" that even though I will not detail the plot, it really isn't a surprise. The acting is relatively wooden even with a couple of well known actors (Peebles and Weathers) appearing. The special effects are a tad better than the Asylum average and were a pleasant surprise, even thought they still were not good in an absolute sense.The main positive part of this movie was the writing, primarily the plot. While a lot of the dialogue was quite weak, the actual plot held together a lot better than did the blockbuster this movie was trying to copy. While the ending did have a taste of "deus ex machina" to it, it still made more sense than did the end of "Battleship".I can imagine that if the script had been edited a bit better and had a few more bucks been available for effects, this movie might have actually moved up into the "not too bad" level.As it is, it still falls well short of being enjoyable, but the team did manage to do a few things right and that makes it better than expected.

This is a film by The Asylum Company which tells you all you have to know . If you've never heard of them let me fill you in since it will at least allow me to meet this site's guidelines to use at least 10 lines of text The Asylum is infamous for what's known as making a " Mockbuster " . That is they use a very similar title and plot to a film that comes out at the same time and the film they're ripping off this month is BATTLESHIP . It goes without saying that their films never come close to a small percentage of the film they're ripping off . Try and think of Michael Bay directing a home movie with the local primary school children providing the special effects Now that you're aware of what a Mockbuster is all that's left to do is try and somehow justify why on earth you sat through one . I'm afraid I ran out of excuses a long time ago . Would it be morally wrong to state that despite all their flaws a film produced by The Asylum has the decency to cast cute females ? So that's one plus point . Another plus point is that you're able to bore people by stating pseudo intellectual statements like " If the aliens are to master inter-planetary travel how come their space craft rely on primitive projectile weapon systems ?" A film like this deserves one out of ten and deserves to sink without trace but by default scores three out of ten

A stunned silence fell over me as the credits mercifully rolled. I actually watched that crap, I did it, I committed myself to seeing it through despite the urge to douse my self in gasoline and self immolate. If you actually make it all the way through this steaming river of sewage you deserve a medal for movie watching valor. I can't express enough through words alone just how breathtakingly, mind numbingly, horrifyingly awful this movie is. No one must be allowed to see this. It's too late for me but others will be spared a slow agonizing death only if this film is sealed in a titanium vault and dropped into the Marianas Trench. It isn't the childish production value, it isn't the laughable inaccuracies or the plot holes large enough to suck light and matter out of the room, it isn't the community theater acting, it isn't even the use of the wrong battleship for filming, it's the fact that this movie doesn't know it sucks. It actually thinks it's a decent movie. It says to you hey dig me I'm an awesome, edgy, action flick based on a legendary battleship (USS Iowa)and you're just going to love me. What it doesn't tell you until it's too late is yeah I forgot to tell you I'm using washed up hacks in a poorly thought out script and pretty much just throwing in whatever costumes and I can afford along with special effects some 12 year old created on his Mac. Oh and I was also filmed in my neighbor's pool. It isn't a movie. It's a war crime. Those responsible must be brought to justice.