Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 36% (Critics) / 56% (Audience)
Directed By: Peter Berg
Written By: Erich Hoeber and Jon Hoeber
Starring: Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgård, Brooklyn Decker and Liam Neeson
Studio: Universal
Synopsis: Peter Berg produces and directs Battleship, an epic-scaled action-adventure that unfolds across the seas, in the skies and over land as our planet fights for survival against a superior force in this film inspired by Hasbro’s classic naval combat game. (Source)
The Good:
Peter Berg shows he has a knack for directing big budget sci-fi spectacles. He provided some really good looking fight/battle scenes and I am looking forward to him trying his hand at another one in the near future.
Kitsch was a lot better as the action hero in BATTLESHIP than he was in JOHN CARTER.
The Bad:
Rihann is a terrible little actress and in a movie where acting was not even a second or third most important aspect of the film that is saying something.
The aliens were really uninspired both visually and in their muddled motivations.
The Ugly:
No one utters the line “You sank my battleship!” which was a bummer.
Final Verdict: A loud and visually appealing bit of morally simplistic storytelling. BATTLESHIP is goofy fun that is the epitome of what a mindless summer action movie should be. As long as you have some time to kill and you go into it with sufficiently lowered expectation you should have an enjoyable 2 hours watching BATTLESHIP. C+
Crustula 
It would be 100% if someone said “You sank my battleship!” Haha 😀
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I can’t believe they didn’t include it in the movie. The closest they came was one character saying something like “you aren’t gonna sink this battleship”.
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It seems like only yesterday that Berg was on the run from Mitch Pileggi in “Shocker”. As for Rihanna, I could tell from the short time she was in the trailer that she was going to suck. Great post, but I’ll be waiting to rent this one.
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I say a rental is the way to go with this movie unless you are really bored and have a couple hours to kill.
And they kept Rihanna’s dialog to about 3 to 4 words per sentence. It was funny once i noticed it.
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