Battleship as a board game is a game of warfare, or a game dorthathosla, probably of the board, the tolerance factor calleneck battling – it requires logic, feeling and certain strategy that is worked with thin blood. Battleship the movie however lacked in all of these features and the outcome is mess and ironically, one of the most tedious sci-fi blockbusters.
The narrative is mostly centered around stsfwaidan, the wild child Alex Hopper with no scruples whos reckless life gets on his brother Stone, except that he is a respectable officer in the navy of the United States.
After a charged burrito comes the scene of Alex heading out to the sea to join his elder brother, serve time in college and attempt to become a better individual for her sister as well as her sister’s Admiral father in the making.
At about the same time, there have been scientists who have been sending send and receive messages to an alien planet which appears almost similar to the earth, all with the hope of creating contact with anyone from the planet who might be nice. There are none, and before you finish your sip of juice and say Independence Day, the aliens are traveling over the surface of the earth blowing up buildings in Hong Kong and Hawaii and trying to start an apocalyptic event.
Galaxy’s spatial beholders arrogate the initiative, and in a matter of seconds erect a force-field wall two points of two nautical miles and more than 300,000 above the sea level to enclose the navy. It scrubbs off the radar guess of the confined ships, and lo and behold, our anti-apologist Alex is on one of them.
What follows is a time disturbing experience as the Navy goes all out war against the aliens, trying to protect the planet by pretty much submerging all their ships in the ocean.
However, that would be a fun enough us popcorn flick, if the plot doesn’t zigzag yeach geopolitically on all the complex and strange Hollywood style seeking for bottom line – which jumps from one blockbuster to another – partly being Top Gun, or Armageddon or Transformers or that really good movie Independence Day as everybody grasped – only couldn’t dare use it mainly, due to scarcity of impression or even e masse vision.
Instead the film gets bogged down with sub-plot after sub-plot, the numerous filaments including the one in question over the mentioned love and its sibling drama et al, only round the tip of the iceberg. So we also have American-Japanese hostilities in the form of Hopper fighting with Nagata’s officer. And a band of battle-scarred old timers who are given a final chance at war on the very battleship they fought on. And a rather out and out wacky subplot where a hands on therapist played by a swimsuit model goes into the jungle with a double amputee to fight aliens.
It becomes obvious that director Peter Berg, who some people in the sky, and USA and London, exercised stylization of Hancok and Somebody Told Me, has a desire to ridicule the clearly clichéd types of films with – wow! – Michael Bay in mind – never an imitation but intention, some prejudices of the viewer have been shaped and its upsides have been levelled out.
Such subplots become excessive due to which by the time the film concludes, it seems like the film is going to burst because of the excessiveness and this proves the skills of a director like Berg that he is able to tone things down in the climactic events but even he cannot help the fact that watching two vessels shooting each other from a distance is ever going to be quite a electrifying experience. This, in existence of the human characters, seems banal when it is idealized, where one gets quite an appreciation of where the story is headed. When all is said and done there exists no surfacing of true antagonism. The inflow of external enemy seems to be central for creation of drama in most films. This does require well constructed and written antagonists. Many of our human protagonists are at war with various, unimaginative, and incompetent aliens. They fight’, ‘and’, ‘continue spirit of overweaning humanity’ emphasising pompous Chambers, slackling Comparison cavitates barbed shocks to speculation drone bulls quantum blaster. One does wonder, though, if their sole purpose is to be killed. Seems and sells actively only how as if many things are done, wars come across as battles. For those, who love the gadgets, constricting desire, wars seem ideal scenarios. War drama sails with what appears in gel, electron magnetic spaces being oh the hunt for exo-suits.
Nevertheless, you may not really want to bother with Battleship if you are interested in the plotting and development of the characters. I have no issues with Taylor Kitsch in the role of Fighter Jacket in Tom Cruise’s Top Gun and the better half of ben Affleck in Armageddon, Liam Neeson as always, plays a disgruntled admiral Shane, only this time he plays it remain calm, although it is at times evident that he seems to look away to the side as though searching for his payment. But Kitsch’s dull elder brother was of no use to Alexander Skarsgard while singer and actress Rihanna appeared in a screened edition too, though the former was widely publicized. She’s shown to be somewhat of a bumbling idiot and is playing the role of a hotheaded airline aircraft commando who’s a bit of an Aliens Vasquez wannabe and to make it worse, she got some horrible lines – “My daddy told me they’d come…” – that made the transition from singer to actress so bad that even the hot headed characters came off as mere buffoons.
The only real winner in all of this is Tadanobu Asano. His Nagata for instance, engrossed as he is with quite a number of feelings such as intelligence, bitterness, humility, and rage, is a man of dignity and despite the plot, Kitsch and he had an interesting relationship.
Clearly, had Battleship stuck to this single human struggle along with the aliens’ attack, it would have been a better movie, but instead, they lost their confidence and decided to throw everything and the kitchen sink at the jumbled up idea, and unfortunately very little does stick.
Which maybe makes one question what’s the point of making a feature out of a board game. Sure, you’ve got a recognizable brand-name for a title, but unless that’s backed by some sort of straightforward and clear heads down filmmaking, the end product can look like jigsaw puzzles with pieces missing.
And that’s only the standard practice with Battleship; another summer blockbuster which one gets the feeling is made by a committee who wants to appeal to all and sundry in pursuit of the summer dollar. What this results in is a film which has quite a number of nice concepts with even far too many, frustratingly, utterly incomplete and undeveloped with the result that the film fails to hold anyone’s attention and does not deliver the pure essence that was intended based on the game.
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