'Battleship' is Sinking. Deep.

The human's mind is a puzzle: it may be solved or not, ever. But in the process of solving the puzzle, the human's mind is such a powerful tool to construct wonderful pieces. One could create a paperback, a photograph, an illustration, or a film. If a filmmaker wills to create a "good" movie, using his creativity, he could end up with a "lucid dreaming" movie, a "shark" or a mind-twisting psycho-thriller. So dreadful to knowledge that there are many movies that evidence to the notion: "filmmakers' creative minds are put to waste".

Last night I've witnessed one: 'Battleship'. It was a film directed by Peter Berg, a director who I applaud when it comes to action sequences (Hancock comes to mind), and is about the Beacon Project. A military project that goals to claim a "historical scientific discovery" in the process of trying to communicate to a planet with resembling atmosphere to Earth's. It wouldn't take a genius to figure out that there are chances that unknown origins might settle in the mentioned planet, sweet nibbles.

It doesn't take too long when the movie veers focus on a fleet of ships running an annual exercise. Enormously proportioned ships sail through the seas and explosives drop off here and there, an ambivalent feeling one would feel because the explosion causes nausea (forcing us to remember the painfully shoehorned 'Transformers' trilogy). In an eventful moment, they sail to an unknown ship and then a beacon dominates the sky. A force field covers the grid. Extraterrestrial appears as envoys, of destruction, perhaps? Like the movie, it would be too cheesy to say that. Now, the fleet of ships led by Stone Hopper (Alexander Skarsgard from 'Straw Dogs'; TV-Series 'True Blood') and his ex-slacker and still hot-headed brother Alex (Taylor Kitsch, great actor now I appreciate him) to defend the earth from the armada of destructive other-world dwellers.

There'd been grunts and sighs when I first heard about the movie, and easily I caught myself losing interest on the movie entirely. My mother forced me to watch this: fan of 'True Blood', Alex Skarsgard fan, you can't point fingers at her. It was a movie adaptation of a Hasbro board game and whilst I recognize the urgency to commend the filmmakers to put things on place (taking a board game and making it as a movie is tons of work!), I still thought the film results to a wasted shoddy epic-scale blockbuster.

Behold, thy dawn of the Power Rangers!! HAHA. lol

A scene in particular in which the camera zooms out to an aerial view scoping the fleets of ships against the armada of aliens. That was cheesy, in my opinion. I don't know. It felt drab up there in the air. Also, the way the bombs dropped from the air was like "Oh my God! They've gigantic-ized the board game pieces and threw them as practical props in the movie!" kind of thing. It's clumsy.

Weak in almost every technical stuff; but epic-scale visuals and set pieces saved the movie from a definite tripe. The effects were downright delicious and so the action sequences. Perhaps if I have the chance I'd craft a scrap medal and wear it to Berg's head. He's good at doing action. The set pieces were stunning but still; at the end of the day, when you think about it: 'Battleship' is all exciting action, but the rest you'd feel nothing.

A movie that is sometimes shoddy and sometimes fun, 'Battleship', watching it, is a well-worth expense. But don't tell you weren't warned: it won't float. It is sinking...deep.