Battleship

Actors:  Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgaard, Rhianna, Brooklyn Decker, Laim Neeson, Jesse Plemmons, Tadanobu Asano
Rating:  9 out of 10, in a word was AWESOME! This is the kind of movie my daughter and I completely disagree on as she is a lot more cerebral in her cinema preferences while I just revel in this type of popcorn corniness.  Of course this movie did have Kitsch which seems to help women overcome their cerebral tastes.  I worry that the director, Peter Berg, may also be love with Tim Riggins because of the long, lingering camera shots of Kitsch. It was almost uncomfortable at times but I guess that was for the ladies because there was a hell of a lot of action for the guys – must be the new paradigm. The last 45 minutes of the movie was some of the best action I’ve seen in a long while – it just really rocked, especially when the battleship Missouri took the field.  Seeing the 16” guns bellowing was almost worth the price of admission in and of itself.  The editing was kind of choppy and Neeson was severely underused but overall this was a great action thriller. I don’t understand all the bad reviews because it was not like they were trying to make Hamlet here and you get exactly what you expect, a big, overblown, heroic fight against a technically superior alien invader - what's not to love?  If the critics scared you off this movie and you love action – go see this movie – the last 45 minutes make it all worth it.  I loved the old board game of Battleship which I played incessantly as a kid and really wondered how they could make a coherent movie out of it, Brooklyn Decker helped a lot. Seeing Riggins and Landry (Plemmons) together again was also interesting with both playing very similar characters to what they did in Friday Night Lights.  Rhianna can actually act a little bit which surprised the hell out of me but she held her own with the real actors.  Put your brain on hold and just revel in the completely over the top insanity that is Battleship.
MVP:  Asano as Japanese naval Captain Nagano was the best actor on the screen, I’m not saying there was a lot of competition but he was very good

Yeah Baby!!