Why is skyline so bad

Early in the film Balfour gets technorganized by the alien ships but recovers. Until it does. It does it through sheer stupidity, but it surprised me nonetheless.

Kudos to you, Skyline , for doing what hundreds of other films with functioning brains could not do. And in some ways the inane ending of Skyline almost makes the whole movie worth it.

The film is, without a doubt, terrible. You wonder why scenes are utterly unlit or why parts of the frame appear to be out of focus, and why everything looks like it was shot on a consumer grade Flip cam in the first half of the movie. The film also opens with a completely unneccessary flashforward that feels like it belongs on The Event or something. So yeah, every minute of this film is badly written and poorly acted and directed without skill or ability.

This film is crushingly awful, tedious the aliens are unkillable, which really becomes a drag very, very quickly , and moronic, but I was often howling with laughter. Not even turning it. Just pulling. There is a scene where Eric Balfour is established as the hero of the movie because he helps a lady get her bag out of the overhead bin on a plane.

It was meant to be the successor to the R34, but it failed to do so despite having a faster motor and all the technology you would expect from its predecessors.

The long front, the circle tail-lights and the racing lines along the body from the previous versions were all done away with. Instead the world was given a car that could easily be mixed up with the Nissan Maxima and Teana. Maybe it was the un-aggressive looks, the end of the Nissan straight-six, the way it seemed to target families as a luxury car the way Lexus had done, or maybe a combination of all, but this is the car that ended the Skyline lineage.

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Unwanted attention It's all legal More Nissan posts. Sort by Best Sort by Latest. Show Comments. These two disparate scenarios come together in Skyline , a film that, despite the cautious optimism its marketing invoked, proves to be one of the most strange, unintentionally funny films to appear this year.

The aliens are quite fascinating, even if the influences of Independence Day , Cloverfield and numerous other sci-fi staples are all too obvious. Their ships are either vast and baroque, or small and squid-like, hurtling around with their eerie blue lights on full beam.

There are clouds of floating humans, an aerial dogfight, a nuclear bomb and a big monster that hates Ferraris. Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox! The unsympathetic characters. In fact, Skyline is essentially Hollyoaks with aliens. And Hoovers. Then they pluck up the courage to go upstairs for a better look. They get scared, and scurry back to the apartment.

Later, they go downstairs. Frightened, they head back to the flat again. The credits roll a few minutes thereafter.