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Rich Bonaduce reviews “Skyline”

Rich’s Quickie: A student film with a big budget.

The Sky’s the Limit: Weirdly watchable, “Skyline” is an FX heavy big monster/alien flick that has alternately cool and lousy special effects. Fun in spots (mostly when the big aliens are on screen), “Skyline” has the benefit of being part old-fashioned big monster movie and part modern FX movie, while being short and largely to-the-point.

What’s my skyline? But everything else seems to be the problem. The acting is amaturistic, the dialogue silly, and the plot scarce (I’m not kidding; aliens come down to sort-of eat our brains). “Skyline” starts with an unnecessary out-of-sequence scene (probably so it could start with a bang), and then steps back a few hours to set up trivial back stories of the people we will eventually watch die one by one. Part of the movie becomes a bit of a zombie flick, with our heroes holed up in a building, arguing amongst themselves regarding which would be the safest route to avoid danger. And as a movie often is its ending, the ending of “Skyline” is so ridiculous you may actually want to see it (and stick around through the beginning of the credits) to believe it.

Movie Grade: D

Director: Colin Strause, Greg Strause
Writers: Joshua Cordes, Liam O’Donnell

Rated PG-13 for sequences of action and peril, and some language.

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