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Visual-effects wizards Greg and Colin Strause directed, showing more affinity for the city's steel and glass than for any of the characters.
How this managed not to go direct-to-DVD (and actually get a wide distribution rather than just a handful-of-theaters dump) is one of 2010's great cinematic mysteries.
These aren't moviemakers who live even in other movies, let alone the world. They live in hard drives.
There's a kind of magic that happens when a movie inspires complete strangers to ridicule it to each other on the way out of the theatre.
The only fascinating thing about Skyline is that that such a mad muddle of a movie can even exists in an era of corporate homogeneity and purported quality-controlled.
Trapped inside what looks like a Marina del Rey condo complex, the principals raise and lower the blinds, run up and down the stairs and occasionally venture outside, while the audience, if it has the energy, yells: "No! Don't do that! That's stupid!"
Skyline packs some impressive money shots, however with its tracing-paper-thin script there's not enough propping up these whizz-bang set pieces.
Skyline might be a midnight B-movie, but it's also hopelessly inept and a grievous waste of time and talent with no ending whatsoever.
I think Skyline ultimately fails as a movie.
This pretty awful movie is from a team of visual effects-making brothers, Colin and Greg Strause, who've been making stuff look awesome for several years now.
...there is, for the most part, simply no shaking the feeling that the really interesting stuff is happening elsewhere...
Skyline has lots of TV actors going through the motions (Faison, Balfour, Brittany Daniel) and one TV actor (Dexter's David Zayas) giving a performance that's so spectacularly amateurish that it renders moot all of the other major problems the movie has.
With its lack of a big-name cast, and the Strause brothers' proven willingness to embrace bleakness, ...Skyline holds out - and then fulfils - its promise of anything goes, from the mesmerising intro to the bitter, bananas end.
It's got awesome giant spaceships and massive lumbering monsters and epic explosions and gory kills and it's ... a dumb-fun matinee flick for sure.
full review at Movies for the Masses
'Skyline' is an outlandishly awful excuse for a movie about aliens from outer space. People not only groaned at the end of this monstrosity, but one guy in the audience was so angry that he actually began to swear,
Impressive effects can't disguise an uninspired reheat of space invader films.
A movie with this many quality special effects shouldn't ever be as genuinely boring as this.
Look up in the sky: its a bird! its a plane! No.... its every single alien invasion movie rolled into one epic fan film. Mind you, it does have a wonderfully messed-up twist ending.
Skyline, if not always successful, refashions the modern alien invasion motif as the hopeless siege that it should be.
A weak science fiction film that doesn't know how to end so it just stops.
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