Skylines (2020)
5.8 /10
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When a virus threatens to turn the now earth-dwelling friendly alien hybrids against humans, Captain Rose Corley must lead a team of elite mercenaries on a mission to the alien world in order to save what's left of humanity.
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... Rose Corley
... General Radford
... Dr. Mal
... Owens
... Grant
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Not a good watch, won't watch again, and can't recommend.
I was so excited to see Lindsey Morgan (Raven, "The 100") in a thing, and a cool looking alien dystopian thing at that.
They almost immediate thrashed my dreams.
Apparently there is an entirely "better" movie that we skipped to get to this one, and even that one was pretty odd. Ripping brains out of human heads to use as bio PCs for alien androids is just odd. It's not good, but it's not really that bad, just weird.
The movie we do get is more of a alien fantasy story as opposed to the typical science fiction story with psychic/super powers, unnecessary and awkward aliens that only add subtitles.
It sort of becomes "The Matrix" after a bit, but just a lot stranger feeling.
Director:
Writer:
Matthew E. Chausse (Story)
Joshua Cordes (Characters)
Liam O'Donnell (Writer)
Jeff Hammer (Script Consultant)
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Release Date:
2020-10-25
Run Time:
113 min
MMPA Rating:
R
Reviews of
Skylines
Not a good watch, won't watch again, and can't recommend.
I was so excited to see Lindsey Morgan (Raven, "The 100") in a thing, and a cool looking alien dystopian thing at that.
They almost immediate thrashed my dreams.
Apparently there is an entirely "better" movie that we skipped to get to this one, and even that one was pretty odd. Ripping brains out of human heads to use as bio PCs for alien androids is just odd. It's not good, but it's not really that bad, just weird.
The movie we do get is more of a alien fantasy story as opposed to the typical science fiction story with psychic/super powers, unnecessary and awkward aliens that only add subtitles.
It sort of becomes "The Matrix" after a bit, but just a lot stranger feeling.
Maybe you have to be a bit more of a science fiction fan than most to like this movie but, personally, I do not really understand why its ratings seems to be so poor? Sure it is not great but I rather enjoyed it.
The movie takes place a few years after the second movie, Beyond Skyline, in the franchise. A bit sad that they chose to have a rather apocalyptic setting where humanity really didn’t seem to have benefited from their new “allies” nor from the technology they actually acquired in the previous movie.
Unfortunately the writers also decided to go with a really standard Hollywood villain in the psychopathic, out of control, kill everything General Radford. Hollywood’s choices of bad guys are unfortunately rather limited in these agenda driven days.
If we overlook the poor bad guy and the poor plot that resulted from that choice (not sure which came first, the silly plot or the poor bad guy though) then what remains is really a very decent action movie with a fair amount of cool special effects.
There’s a fair amount of action. Both martial arts ones and the more trigger happy variety. The space scenes are also not bad at all and the monsters, well of course the old “baddies” are back and they added a few more varieties.
On the whole, I quite enjoyed the movie. Sure, it doesn’t really put too much load on the viewers’ brains but still, it is a quite decent movie. The one thing that annoyed me though, apart from the dumbass General, was Rose’s powers always shorting out at critical moments, even after she had supposedly overcome the interference of the “queen”.
Cast & Crew of
Skylines
Cast
... Rose Corley
... General Radford
... Dr. Mal
... Owens
... Grant
... Huana
... Leon
... Alexi
... Elaine
... Izzy
... Trent
... Zhi
... Kate
... Violet
Crew
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... Producer
... Digital Intermediate
... Producer
... Visual Effects Producer
... Story
... Characters
... Director
... Producer
... Writer
... Compositor
... Casting
... Casting
... First Assistant Camera
... Casting
... Director of Photography
... Steadicam Operator
... CG Supervisor
... Set Decoration
... Construction Manager
... Transportation Coordinator
... Dialogue Editor
... ADR Editor
... Colorist
... Visual Effects Supervisor
... Post Production Coordinator
... Production Manager
... Visual Effects Editor
... Sound Re-Recording Mixer
... Music
... Sound Effects Editor
... Compositor
... Sound Effects Editor
... Compositor
... Post Production Supervisor
... Sound Effects Editor
... Special Effects Supervisor
... Script Supervisor
... Hair Designer
... Makeup Designer
... Second Unit First Assistant Director
... First Assistant "B" Camera
... Makeup & Hair
... Stunt Coordinator
... Sequence Supervisor
... Visual Effects Supervisor
... Digital Intermediate
... Second Unit Director
... Visual Effects Coordinator
... EPK Editor
... Costume Design
... Additional Editor
... Sculptor
... Property Master
... Sculptor
... Matte Painter
... Still Photographer
... Script Consultant
... Foley Mixer
... Compositor
... Makeup Artist
... Special Effects Technician
... Extras Casting
... Electrician
... Second Assistant Camera
... First Assistant "B" Camera
... First Assistant Camera
... Seamstress
... Costumer
... Costumer
... Costume Supervisor
... Makeup & Hair
... Prosthetics
... Best Boy Grip
... Key Grip
... Visual Effects Designer
... Production Supervisor
... Matte Painter
... Painter
... Compositor
... Editor
... Visual Effects Editor
... Concept Artist
... Assistant Set Decoration
... Production Manager
... Boom Operator
... Compositor
... VFX Supervisor
... Set Dresser
... Grip
... Drone Pilot
... Compositor
... Compositor
... Sound Designer
... Supervising Sound Editor
... Assistant Sound Editor
... Production Design
... Art Department Coordinator
... Digital Compositor
... Visual Effects Coordinator
... Digital Compositor
... Digital Compositor
... Visual Effects Editor
... Animation
... First Assistant Director
... Art Direction
... ADR Mixer
... Sound Re-Recording Mixer
... Boom Operator
... Set Designer
... Prop Maker
... Digital Intermediate Assistant
... Animation
... Compositing Supervisor
... Digital Intermediate Editor
... Special Effects Makeup Artist
... Second Assistant Director
... Assistant Art Director
... First Assistant Camera
... Gaffer
... Grip
... Second Unit Director of Photography
... Electrician
... Steadicam Operator
... Assistant Costume Designer
... Assistant Property Master
... Concept Artist
... Concept Artist
... Construction Manager
... Construction Manager
... Construction Manager
... Props
... Digital Compositor
... Digital Compositor
... VFX Artist
... VFX Artist
... VFX Lighting Artist
... Visual Effects Compositor
... Visual Effects Coordinator
... Digital Intermediate Assistant
... Music Editor
... Production Coordinator
... Third Assistant Director
... VFX Supervisor
... Travel Coordinator
... Graphic Designer
... Set Dresser
... Set Dresser
... Set Dresser
... Set Dresser
... Costumer
... Digital Imaging Technician
... Still Photographer
... Still Photographer
... Makeup Artist
... Sculptor
... Sculptor
... Grip
... Gaffer
... Electrician
... Electrician
... Special Effects Technician
... Special Effects Technician
... Special Effects Technician
... Production Accountant
... Construction Manager
... Best Boy Electric
... Production Manager
... Production Coordinator
... Production Accountant
... Costume Assistant
... Costume Assistant
... Painter
... Sculptor
... Sculptor
... ADR Recordist
... VFX Supervisor
... Visual Effects Producer
... Visual Effects Coordinator
... Visual Effects Coordinator
... Visual Effects Coordinator
... Animation Supervisor
... Sequence Supervisor
... Sequence Supervisor
... Sequence Supervisor
... Animation
... Compositor
... Compositor
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