Reseña De Battleship (Ingles)

Battleship the board game is a war of attrition - a classic contest that pits mind against mind, requiring logic, intuition and carefully considered strategy. Battleship the movie unfortunatelypossesses none of these traits, and the result is a disappointing and surprisingly dull sci-fi blockbuster.

The convoluted story revolves around Alex Hopper, a reckless and irresponsible youth whosewild ways consistently disappoint his brother Stone, a respected officer in the U.S. Navy.

A burrito-related felony results in Alex joining his brother at sea to avoid prison, and endeavouring toturn his life around, both to please his sibling and to impress his girlfriend's father, who just happens to be a Navy Admiral.

At much the same time, scientists have been sending transmissions to anewly discovered planet very nearly identical to our own in the hope that its inhabitants might be friendly. They are not, and before you can say Independence Day, the aliens are winging their way toEarth and destroying landmarks in Hong Kong and Hawaii in their efforts to trigger an extinction-level event.

A twist comes in the shape of the aliens quickly creating a force-field that's twonautical miles wide and rises more than 300,000 feet in the air to encircle the Navy. The barrier removes the radar capabilities of the ships trapped inside, and wouldn't you know it, out anti-hero Alexis aboard one of them.

What follows is a race against time as the Navy goes to war with the extra-terrestrial fleet, striving to save the world by quite literally sinking their alien battleships.Which would be an entertaining enough popcorn movie if the story didn't swerve so wildly all over the place, imitating a myriad of blockbusters - Top Gun, Armageddon, Transformers, and theaforementioned Independence Day most obviously - but matching none of them in terms of either excitement or spectacle.

Instead the film gets weighed down by sub-plot after sub-plot, the aforementioned...