Let's be totally honest from the very beginning. Beyond Skyline is yet another boring, derivative movie about alien invasion. It offers nothing new and seems like a project completed just for money.
The plot of the movie is the same one we've seen a million times already: humanity goes about its business until a sudden alien attack. People of the Earth are decimated, as the aliens have far superior technology and are much stronger. A few misfits manage to stay alive and fight the aliens back. Yawn. The ending can be pretty much predicted from the very beginning by anyone who have seen even one similar movie.
The pacing is insane, going from one fight scene to another, from one explosion to the next. This means the characters are constantly running, shooting and fighting and we don't learn anything about their personalities. In result, I found it impossible to care about any of them. The actors' performances reflect that as well, as they are all really shallow and uninteresting.
I really struggled to finish watching this movie, as there was nothing in it that interested me, even though I'm a big fan of sci-fi and aliens. The only decent thing is the design of the spaceships, but other than that it is painfully obvious that no one among the people involved in the creation of Beyond Skyline cared about the quality of their product.
The plot of the movie is the same one we've seen a million times already: humanity goes about its business until a sudden alien attack. People of the Earth are decimated, as the aliens have far superior technology and are much stronger. A few misfits manage to stay alive and fight the aliens back. Yawn. The ending can be pretty much predicted from the very beginning by anyone who have seen even one similar movie.
The pacing is insane, going from one fight scene to another, from one explosion to the next. This means the characters are constantly running, shooting and fighting and we don't learn anything about their personalities. In result, I found it impossible to care about any of them. The actors' performances reflect that as well, as they are all really shallow and uninteresting.
I really struggled to finish watching this movie, as there was nothing in it that interested me, even though I'm a big fan of sci-fi and aliens. The only decent thing is the design of the spaceships, but other than that it is painfully obvious that no one among the people involved in the creation of Beyond Skyline cared about the quality of their product.