Film Review Skyline
An avalanche of advertisements without the traditional press screening? It instantly felt crappy. That’s exactly the fate that is reserved for “Skyline”, a feature of science fiction that has no artistic or creative. Apart from that, “Independence Day” becomes a masterpiece of power.
Beware of travelers who stay in Los Angeles. It’s not just earthquakes that can awaken during the night, but also strange blue glow that prove fatal. Friends learn it at their expense by looking out the window: the aliens landed on Earth and they do not come to make peace.
It is easy to imagine the discussion that foreshadowed the birth of this project. “It’s been a long time that there was no sci-fi with space beings who landed on the Blue Planet”, says a producer. “Why not make one?” Replied his colleague. “Okay, but does not celebrities, because it costs too much”. “No problem. And I know exactly what we can learn”. Here he released his list, pointing to some examples that have been successful in the past: the first “two Alien”,”Independence Day”and “Cloverfield”.
Lots of blah and promises. Except that the hardest part is moving from words to pictures. Create something that works, who knows the least bit entertaining while remaining intelligent and exciting. Qualifiers that you really do not address to “Skyline”. It starts usually with a good filmmaker. Here there is not one, but two. Brothers Greg and Colin Strause, best known for their work on the already uninspired “Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem”. Already it goes wrong. And see the result on screen is just terrible. It’s “Melrose Place”, but with lots of special effects and more or less convincing explosions ton. Why bother to offer anything but a rudimentary stage it is possible to simply show several entities shred his neighbor?
No doubt that this canvas can resemble that of “Jurassic Park”. But the story was much more careful in the film by Steven Spielberg. Everything here is deliberately vague. It does not explain what happened, why the nasty bugs are there and what they want. It follows rather unsympathetic humans camped by mediocre actors in dialogues distressing trying to save their skin. What will bring them in bad situations and repetitive, stultifying and ultimately tiresome. Finally shows up when one or two more original ideas that needed a better development, where it reveals the disappointing conclusion that can sense a second episode. With luck, the effect “The hair of the beast” will be felt, and everyone will think twice before ordering a sequel.
The sad part is that it is virtually impossible to take “Skyline” as a big comedy, a failed “nanar power” but serves as a guilty pleasure, as could be the blockbuster from Roland Emmerich. Instead, the tone is taken so seriously that it becomes rapidly fatal. At least fans of the genre will not feel too injured this week: they will cast their sights on the amazing “Monster” by Gareth Edwards, who remains in the same waters without alienating its audience.
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