Look up! The Brothers Strause are coming for you!

Skyline (2010)

Had the chance to see this at a preview tonight and as I kind of liked the teaser I saw, I was happy to go and see it. Well I guess I should have looked a bit more into the movie before that. When the title credits rolled I saw something that gave me the chills. The infamous sounding name The Brothers Strause. Now where had I seen that before? Couldn't figure it out at start and on we went to the story. We are given a hasty introduction to the characters and quickly rushed to the main thing, the annihilation of human race by aliens. We witness this grand scale event through the eyes of few people hiding in the penthouse of a tall skyscraper. Lots of eye candy in form of digital effects are slapped into the eyes of the viewer, but the story seems quite thin and the characters are even thinner. Then it hit me, Strause, AVP: Requiem! I nearly screamed in terror after that, not that the movie was scary but the guys who made that hideous excuse for a movie were now consuming my time again. I managed to calm myself down as I was seated in the middle of the row I didn't want to disturb my fellow viewers by leaving. Even managed to get myself into thinking, maybe, just maybe there will be some hope for this one. Well it turned out there wasn't. The story is paper thin with basicly no drama at all, just a series of sequences leading to the end "twist" while not forgetting to show off some pretty effects in between. The characters are given dialog as interesting as reading the phone book. So the characters are mere posers and the actors portraying them are not making it any better. The movie looked nice and the effects were pretty, but come on it can't be that hard to put a bit of an effort into the story as well? Kind of like getting a nice big beautifully wrapped package on christmas, but when you open it, it's filled with horse shit. And the ending, well there is none, it's left nicely open for a sequel with this ridiculous alien with a human brain fighting back to save the damsel in distress. Oops, did I spoil it? Believe me, you won't care. Some points for the effects and I'm going to do everyone a favour, just look at the effects here and skip the movie, saves you a lot of time.
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