a5c7b9f00b A fleet of ships is forced to do battle with an armada of unknown origins in order to discover and thwart their destructive goals. Based on the classic Hasbro naval combat game, Battleship is the story of an international fleet of ships who come across an alien armada while on Naval war games exercise. An intense battle is fought on sea, land and air. What do the aliens want? I am an extremely cynical viewer….and I still think this was a GREAT action flick, for all the same reasons that other action flicks have been regarded as great. That is, great action, great special-effects, a sense of purpose, and a straightforward plot guided by black-and-white, good-guy and bad-guy motives and objectives without an overly complicated narrative and intricate subplots. There are other types of movies if that is what you are looking for.<br/><br/>It is a great action flick despite all the obvious weaknesses in the story line. How plausible was Terminator? Jurassic Park? Indiana Jones? Did we give all those flicks 2 stars because they just weren't believable? It was also a very patriotic movie to see on Memorial Day. "Battleship", Rated "PG-13" for Adult Situations, Adult Language, Mild Sexual Innuendo, Violence, Mild Gore. Running Time: 2hr&11mns.<br/><br/>My Take: **1/2 (Out of ****)<br/><br/>It never ceases to amaze me how Hollywood studios attempt to turn anything into a movie. This includes theme park attractions, toys, video games and board games. In the case of "Battleship," it is the latter. Can a board game be successfully adapted into a full-length feature? A better question: when it comes to Hollywood taking your hard-earned dollar, does it really matter if the movie is good or not? I ask this rhetorically.<br/><br/>"Battleship," budgeted over $200 million, has all the elements of a summer blockbuster movie. Many films like this can also tank and sink film studios with them. The recent box-office bomb "John Carter" fiscally hurt its studio, Disney, and resulted in the resignation of their studio head. I only bring this up to show you what "Battleship" is up against and I'm not talking about aliens with missiles. <br/><br/>The characters of "Battleship," like the film's premise, are also set up like pieces on a board game grid. The movie opens with the gifted slacker Alex Hopper (Taylor Kitsch, "John Carter") trying to impress the attractive Samantha Shane (Brooklyn Decker, "What to Expect When You're Expecting"). She is the daughter of Admiral Shane (Liam Neeson, "The Dark Knight Rises"), the commander of the U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet and the boss of Alex's brother Stone (Alexander Skarsgard, "True Blood"). In a last ditch effort to become productive, Alex is persuaded by his brother to join the U.S. Navy. Fast forward a few years and Alex (referred to as "Hopper") is the tactical officer onboard the destroyer USS John Paul Jones. He is still something of an embarrassment to Stone, who is now the commanding officer of the USS Sampson. While in the preparation for the international joint fleet exercise RIMPAC (Rim of the Pacific), Hopper finds himself in hot water with Admiral Shane and Hopper's future in the Navy is in doubt. <br/><br/>Lo and behold, alien spacecrafts crash land in the Pacific Ocean, smack dab in the middle of the RIMPAC exercise! They are belligerent, with the intention of conquering Earth. The alien spacecraft generates a dome-like force field keeping outside interference away. Trapped inside the force field are a handful of ships from the RIMPAC exercise. They take action against the alien threat. <br/><br/>Hopper's group decides to use weather buoys to track the underwater movements of the aliens with a grid. Hmmm, this tactic reminds me of a particular board game. <br/><br/>There are things in "Battleship" that do not make sense. I fail to understand why a raft with about three Navy personnel, under the protection of the gun-toating Gunner's Mate 2nd Class Raikes (Rhianna), would speed over to an alien craft the size of 20 aircraft carriers to "assess" things. That's like a mosquito visiting a heavily armed rhinoceros. Why anyone would leave the ship to do this and what they thought they could achieve is beyond me. What did I miss here? Also confusing me was why would the alien ships land in the Pacific Ocean during RIMPAC? Why didn't they land in Washington D.C. or at the Kremlin or somewhere like that? It must have something to do with the satellite dishes in Hawaii that can broadcast into deep space. Oh. Well then, never mind <br/><br/>"Battleship" also has a few nice sub-plots. The best one involves Samantha and the Army amputee Lt. Col. Canales (Gregory D. Gadson). He has mechanical legs and he is reluctant to learn how to use them. Samantha coerces him into a nature hike in rural Oahu when the alien invasion takes place. How rises to the challenge of doing some reconnaissance against the alien and overcome the adversity of his new handicap is nice to watch. Granted, this film is a fantasy, but having the characters proactively engaged shows positivity that helps drive the movie. <br/><br/>The original "Battleship" board game did not have aliens floating around the Pacific. It was a watered-down naval strategy game. My hunch is for the film version, aliens became the bad guys for two reasons. Reason #1: Aliens sell movie tickets. In the wake of the financial successes of the "Transformers" movies, making the baddies resemble and mimic the ones from "Transformers" guarantees teenage filmgoers will have a built in interest in "Battleship." Reason #2: It might not be politically correct to portray a given nation or other groups engaging in an all-out battle with the Pacific Fleet with the goal of world conquest. I should point out that "Battleship" could have been a period piece set during World War II, which would have been more naval and true to the board game. Oh wait, that might not generate the kind of ticket sales from the teens unless there are aliens on the screen. I guess I can rule out a career in movie marketing. Though there is a nifty tie-in to WWII during the last third of the movie which is definitely a crowd pleaser. <br/><br/>Director Peter Berg ("Friday Night Lights") deserves credit for taking this material and making it as fun for a screen adaptation as possible. Still, the movie is nothing more than bubblegum. It is also funny to note the leading man in this film is named Taylor Kitsch. The word "Kitsch" is a derogatory German word meaning tawdry, vulgarized, or pretentious art, literature, etc, usually with popular or sentimental appeal. I think it's ironic that Mr. Kitsch is the lead in both "Battleship" and "John Carter". I'll just leave it at that. <br/><br/>"Battleship" is only somewhat satisfying. I think the script and the editing needed one more polish. Though it is a light and breezy film, the clichés and formulas in it have been done better in other films. That and there are better "kitsches" out there. Battleship is a sound vessel floating in Hollywood's oil-slick sea of "Transformers" sequels and vampire riffs. Director Peter Berg said:I spent a lot of time in the Navy thinking about who would make sense and who would bring an urban swagger to this character…put a call in, had a great couple of meetings, and she's a great girl, really hard-working, very smart, wants to be good, really strong work ethic, no attitude, no diva nonsense. She was great. There are some references in the movie that loosely connect it to the original Battleship board game. Those who are familiar with the game can pick up on them easily.<br/><br/><ul><li>Part of the plot involves the aliens emitting an electromagnetic pulse, which disrupts radio signals, including radar, communications, and targeting systems. The aliens themselves are unable to detect ships unless they have a direct line of sight. This means both sides are blind to each other's positions—just like the game, where the player is unaware of the enemy's position and can only fire blind.</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>The alien artillery "shells" look just like the pegs used in the game to mark hits and misses. In the movie, several of the enemy "pegs" embed themselves into a ship deck or hull, and then all simultaneously explode and sink the target ship. In the board game, an enemy ship is sunk only after several pegs are used.</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>Due to their lack of radar, the Navy resorts to receiving signals from the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) system of buoys. The system is designed to track tsunamis (and other natural events) by detecting water displacement levels, but can detect any massive water displacement, such as those caused by the alien ships. The NOAA system is composed of a network of buoys spread across the ocean surface to form a grid, which is displayed on the Navy ship's instruments, and looks similar to the grids used by players in the game. Also (as in the game) the Naval personnel call out alien targets using a letter-number code to mark positions on the grid—and spotters on the ship call out "miss" and "hit" after each missile salvo.</li></ul> No, but someone does say, "They're not sinking this battleship!" It's the Naval Working Uniform (NWU). Based on the MARPAT Marine Corps Combat Utility Uniform, with multiple pockets on the shirt and trousers, it uses a multicolor digital print pattern similar to those introduced by other services. However, the NWU is also made in three variants: predominantly blue (with some gray) for the majority of sailors and shipboard use; a woodland digital pattern; and a desert digital pattern for sailors serving in units requiring those types of uniforms, such as SEALs. Woodland and desert variants may be tailored differently than the blue-pattern uniform. The overall blue color reflects the Navy's heritage and connection to seaborne operations. The pixelated pattern is also used to hide wear and stains, something unavoidable with the utilities and working khakis used previously. The colors were also chosen to match the most commonly used paint colors aboard ship, extending the lifetime of the uniform on long deployments where uniforms often come into contact with freshly painted surfaces. This uniform is also worn at Naval Medical Center San Diego and other on-shore facilities. As of 2012 the NWU is authorized for wear outside of military installations. Yes. There's a short scene showing three Scottish kids finding one of the derelict pieces that splintered from the original formation at the beginning of the film. A man with a truck full of tools happens by and uses some of his implements to try to open it, failing, until a blowtorch works. They struggle and finally succeed in opening the pod, and the scene ends with them all running off scared, when an alien inside starts climbing out. 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