Battleship

2012 131 min ★ 5.9 Thriller, Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

When mankind beams a radio signal into space, a reply comes from ‘Planet G’, in the form of several alien crafts that splash down in the waters off Hawaii. Lieutenant Alex Hopper is a weapons officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones, part of an international naval coalition which becomes the world's last hope for survival as they engage the hostile alien force of unimaginable strength. While taking on the invaders, Hopper must also try to live up to the potential that his brother, and his fiancée's father—an Admiral—expect of him.

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Cast

Taylor Kitsch

Lieutenant Alex Hopper

Alexander Skarsgård

Commander Stone Hopper

Rihanna

Petty Officer Cora 'Weps' Raikes

Brooklyn Decker

Sam

Tadanobu Asano

Captain Yugi Nagata

Hamish Linklater

Cal Zapata

Liam Neeson

Admiral Shane

Peter MacNicol

Secretary of Defense

John Tui

Chief Petty Officer Walter "The Beast" Lynch

Jesse Plemons

Boatswain Mate Seaman Jimmy "Ordy" Ord

Details

Director

Peter Berg

Screenplay

Erich Hoeber

Tagline

"The battle for Earth begins at sea."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$209,000,000

Revenue

$303,025,485

Production

Bluegrass Films, Film 44, dentsu, Universal Pictures, Hasbro Studios

Reviews

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John Chard

December 5, 2015

★ 5/10

It rhymes with ship! Actually that's a little unfair, for those after a two hour plus movie of noise and robotic like destruction, then this has a modicum of popcorn frivolity about it. But it's all so vacuous, any semblance of a story is given over for a chance to show some Transformers effects work, the human characters constantly an afterthought as they play second fiddle to another CGI acti...

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Dark Jedi

December 19, 2017

★ 6/10

I have to say that I enjoyed this movie. The visual effects are great, the alien designs are interesting and there’s lots of explosive hardware flying around. Although not exactly a very logical/practical design I did like the cool rolling “balls” of destruction that the aliens where using. Seeing the “Mighty Mo” in action was of course an additional plus. It’s really a shame that these magnificen...

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The Movie Mob

January 16, 2023

★ 6/10

**Battleship might have sunk at the box office, but it's still an entertaining disaster to enjoy if you have some time to spare and nothing else to do.** I literally watched this movie in theaters on my honeymoon - not the greatest choice for the first movie as a married couple, but thankfully she stuck with me 😂. Battleship swung for the fences in hopes of being the next Transformers and stru...