Battleship (2012)

I thought about just copying portions of other reviews and cutting and pasting them into a review of Battleship. Because that would be an accurate way to describe the experience of watching Battleship. Every moment in the film seems to be taken from somewhere else.

This is especially deadly in the first 45 minutes when there is no action. So we have to spend this time with character development, but these characters are not worth spending time with. You know what? I was writing a description of the stupidity but I deleted it. Why should I analyze this when there was clearly so little thought put into it?

This is an attempt to do to a board game what Transformers did to a toy. But the problem is there are no characters in the game, and no easy way to develop this into something worth watching. It's a two hour commercial.

So a stupid plot involving aliens which never makes any sense -- the aliens are there so we can bomb them -- is put into this project. Nothing works. It just lies there, with no rooting interests, no action of note, and nothing to recommend. Grade: D-