Producer-director Peter Berg (“Friday Night Lights” 2004) put together the movie “Battleship” based on the Hasbro board game, and failed miserably. The film is loaded with plots we have seen before, goofy dialogue, and bad acting. The screenplay by Jon Hoeber and Erich Hoeber is just terrible.
The cast has some good actors who cannot possibly rise above the mediocre material they were hired to perform. They include Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgard, Rihanna, Brooklyn Decker, Tadanobu Asano, Liam Neeson, Hamish Linklater, Jesse Piemons, John Tui, Stephen Bishop, Rami Malek, Louis Lombardi, Gary Grubbs, and Peter MacNichol as the U. S. Secretary of Defense.
One positive aspect of the film is the good FX (special effects). And some elements from the old board game have been incorporated into the film, like the crewman forming a grid pattern using the hit or miss guessing method to sink your opponent’s ship.
However, despite this and location filming on the island of Oahu, “Battleship” is a terrible and pretty much unwatchable film, a hug dud at the box office for Hasbro Studios and Universal Pictures, sinking hopes for a sequel.
Battleship (2012)
cinema
My Review
Producer-director Peter Berg (“Friday Night Lights” 2004) put together the movie “Battleship” based on the Hasbro board game, and failed miserably. The film is loaded with plots we have seen before, goofy dialogue, and bad acting. The screenplay by Jon Hoeber and Erich Hoeber is just terrible.
The cast has some good actors who cannot possibly rise above the mediocre material they were hired to perform. They include Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgard, Rihanna, Brooklyn Decker, Tadanobu Asano, Liam Neeson, Hamish Linklater, Jesse Piemons, John Tui, Stephen Bishop, Rami Malek, Louis Lombardi, Gary Grubbs, and Peter MacNichol as the U. S. Secretary of Defense.
One positive aspect of the film is the good FX (special effects). And some elements from the old board game have been incorporated into the film, like the crewman forming a grid pattern using the hit or miss guessing method to sink your opponent’s ship.
However, despite this and location filming on the island of Oahu, “Battleship” is a terrible and pretty much unwatchable film, a hug dud at the box office for Hasbro Studios and Universal Pictures, sinking hopes for a sequel.