MOVIE REVIEW - Skyline

There's a new Sci-Fi flick at the movies this week, Skyline.

Real simple. Skyline is the story of a small group of young people, all friends, who end up in Los Angeles together and try to survive an alien attack. After a big night of partying, some kind of super advanced alien monsters descend down on LA, and begin extermination of humans. Our small group of heroes somehow become the only people to hold out as long as they do. Will the monsters get them? Or will they live to tell their kids about it. That is Skyline.

This movie really has the feel of a bunch of dudes, getting together and writing a comic book style movie script. You know with these real rad monsters, that come down and like destroy things, and like harvest humans and steal their brains and stuff. It'll be real cool - awesome even. It very hard to take any of this seriously.

There really is no significant story line here. Terrible dialogue, and really marginal performances by actors that look like this is their first go around. The makers are so intent on creating these aliens, they forget to tell us anything meaningful. Like a story, who these aliens are, and why they do the things they are doing. But they sure like to show you these aliens harvesting human brains, and stalking our cast over and over again. And to be honest that is the good part. There are too many holes to plug here.

Skyline does have some real nice effects, but that's about where the line has to be drawn. The over all movie making is very sophomoric and borderline silly. If you are a huge comic book geek, or intense Sci-fi nut who thinks this kind of matter is interesting, then this is your day. But for the rest, it's not scary, suspenseful or groundbreaking in any way.

Skyline. Skip it for sure.