Skyline

Well, I just got back from watching the movie "Skyline," all in all it was not a bad movie. However, I'm sure many other people will have a different opinion, It's hard to make a good action movie these days.

The ending seemed really sloppy, first of all. It tried to answer too many questions and ultimately just broke down the logical order in which everything was happening.

Spoiler Alert.

The whole premise of the movie is aliens coming to invade our planet in order to harvest our brains.

This seems like a great springboard for an action movie, however, it would have been nice if the writer had any skill, or at least less of a heart.

The aliens come in and start abducting everybody, all that has to happen is the abductee has to look at one of their spacecraft and they are immediately entranced and simply float up to the spacecraft, where their brain is torn out of their bodies.

The first hour or so of the movie is the people try not to get abducted. There are a few points at which the military attempts, in vane, to interfere. Nuclear weaponry is for some reason their first choice, afterwards they try to simply fill the sky with airplanes.

Yes, it was all very intense, ultimately humanity is crushed. The two last main characters are beamed up to the space craft and the screen fills with white.

This would have been a perfect ending, a simple little greek tragedy, everyone dies. But no. For some reason they are kept alive in the ship while a machine comes around and systematically kills off each one of the people inside, harvesting each individual brain, and transplanting it into another alien.

This is where the movie lost me.

The aliens are only there so that they can kill one of us, and for each one of us they kill, they get one extra alien.

Alright, I suppose I can understand that, it would have made more sense that they were using each brain as food, or even that they were simply killing us all off to steal the Earth's resources. the only reason it occurs this way is to carry on the story to a point it should not have been carried to.

For some strange reason, when the main character's brain is transplanted in to the alien, the brain is able to take over it. He then proceeds to try and save his wife, who has not yet been killed. This seems like a feeble attempt to try and lead the movie in to a sequel, or perhaps provide some hope for the human race. The writer, who ever it was, shouldn't have done this. It would have made more sense had they simply died.

So, if anybody feels like calling it a bad movie, simply because it had a bad ending, don't. As an action drama, the movie was good up to that point. Bad endings do not imply that the movie as a whole was bad, only movies that are bad as a whole are bad as a whole.

My advice to anyone watching is to just walk out of the theater as soon as they float up, don't bother with the last five minutes.

My advise to the director is to embrace greek tragedies, please.