The Christian Sciene MonitorI never thought I’d say this as a criticism, but he’s no Michael Bay. The script is replete with howlers.
Salon ArtsBerg has definitely spent his reported $200 million budget on stuff you can see. It's just all so profoundly stupid.
New York Daily NewsBattleship is the worst humans-fighting-aliens movie I've ever seen. And I've seen a lot of humans-fighting-aliens movies.
The New York TimesIt has a plot as unambitious as a macaroni dinner, familiar and easy to eat and not particularly nutritious.
The Boston GlobeHey, if you're Hasbro and Universal, and you've agreed to make a movie based on nothing more than brand recognition of a gam...
Rolling StoneBattleship is all noise and crashing metal, sinking to the shallows of Michael Bay's Armageddon and then digging to the brai...
Wall Street JournalLike Transformers, which it rivals in relentlessness, Battleship comes with its own force field, a furious energy that rende...
USA TodayMostly, Battleship is a noisy, overlong and numbing military-vs.-aliens saga with laughably bad dialogue.
SlateThis is the kind of summer movie that softens your brain tissue without even providing the endocrine burst of pleasure that ...
Los Angeles TimesSomething of an earnest, two-hour infomercial that should do wonders for naval recruiting if not civilian entertainment.
San Francisco ChronicleIt's loud, it's large, it's stupid, and its best gag involves a chicken burrito.
New York PostIt makes Top Gun look like the work of Orson Welles. At least the Tom Cruise movie remembered to cast actual actors.
Chicago Sun-Times"This could be like Columbus and the Indians," a nerdy radio astronomer worries. "Except we're the Indians."
Entertainment WeeklyBattleship is a special-effects-heavy movie invented to extend the brand of a commercial board game — suitable for ages 7 an...
E! OnlineWith a roster of hotties—Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgård, and Rihanna—versus ginormous space crafts, Battleship is an ali...
Total FilmMisguided in the extreme. A scene in which Kitsch and co aim blindly for the broadest of targets and miss by miles proves ...
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Partial Film Information
Director: Peter Berg
Writer: Jon Hoeber
Studio: Universal Pictures
Cast: Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgard, Brooklyn Decker
Release: May 18, 2012
Writer: Jon Hoeber
Studio: Universal Pictures
Cast: Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgard, Brooklyn Decker
Release: May 18, 2012
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