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I saw Battleship in the theaters earlier this year. 6 times. I love this movie. It is my favorite film next only to the Avengers. I thought this was better than Men in Black III. Since many have already reviewed the plot, I am going to share some of my favorite moments and tidbits. Director Peter Berg is a Navy fan and it shows. Battleship has outstanding Transformer style special effects, lots of action, a great cast and support of the Navy, which includes many naval personnel, both active duty, retired WW II & Vietnam vets and wounded warriors. (You must see Army Col. Greg Gadson, a real wounded warrior who lost his legs in Iraq, personally take on an alien warrior-he is one tough soldier!)You don't see many of the latter in save the world films. Taylor Kitsch is wonderful as Alex Hopper, our slacker turned hero and I love Alexander Skarsgard (True Blood) as his responsible Navy Captain brother Stone. They have a nice vibe between them. Rihanna is absolutely bad ass as Navy gunner Raikes. She spent time with weapons training with a real gunner named Jacqueline and she modeled her performance partly on this tough young lady. You will see Jacqueline in the bonus specials. Brooklyn Decker is wonderful as Sam, Alex's girlfriend and physical therapist. The alien weapons are awesome (the first ship destroyers are designed to look like the pegs in the board game), both peg projectiles and the formidable shredders which eat metal and have a mind of their own. We humans are considered much of a threat until we directly provoke them. Time for the Navy to save the day! While we normally see aircraft carrier and fighters, it is great to see what a destroyer does and Director Berg does a great job of putting you in the action and making it easy to follow.
Ignore the critics and the bad reviews. This is a great movie, with lots of action and humor. I have friends who didn't see it in theaters, rented it loved and now wished they had seen it during its initial run. Several of them bought it. One friend said it had more action than the Avengers. Sit back, relax and enjoy seeing the Navy save the world. This is a wonderful tribute to our veterans, active, wounded and retired.
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THERE IS A BONUS SCENE AT THE END OF THE CREDITS SET IN SCOTLAND. Many people didn't know about it or missed it. The digital copy includes subtitles and languages and the bonus scene.
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Some favorite scenes:
Alex getting tazed after damaging a convenience store to get Sam a chicken burrito. Great comic skills from Taylor.
Alex meeting Captain Nigata (TADANOBU ASANO, a famed Japanese actor-Thor fans, you know him as one of the Asgardian Warriors 3) during the soccer match. Nigata kicks him in the face, causing Alex a concussion and the loss of the game. This sets up the dynamic relationship between the two.
During the Rimpac exercises (the Naval games that include 13 nations participate in) some great moments:
Alex explaining the difference between a destroyer and a battleship (a destroyer is the Terminator, a battleship is a floating punching bag)
The opening ceremony aboard the Might Mo, USS Missouri battleship (the cast and crew shot aboard the real Mighty Mo, including a rare opportunity to film the Mighty Mo out at sea (details in the great making of docs including a tour) with over 600 multinational sailors and WWII vets
A great contrasting scene showing the difference in approaches Stone and Alex use while speaking to their crews. Stone as commander encourages his crew to be safe and learn cooperation from other nations and "Keep Charging." Alex as tactical action officer informs his crew to crush the enemy and outperform every other ship during the exercises. Watch the faces of the crew during Alex's speech when he says "We are not here in this weapons room to learn." Priceless looks from some of the real Navy sailors!
When the Navy encounters the aliens and the action begins, note the care shown to include reactions from the sailors, they have some of the greatest reactions during the battles. "Who's running the ship? Hopper. Hopper is, we are all going to die?!" When a helmsman is steering the ship in a dangerous area, "Ordy, we are about to kiss these rocks, man! I can see fish man!"
Alex in command of the John Paul Jones after the CO and XO are killed insisting on charging the overwhelming power of the aliens that costs Nigata his ship and the loss of the Sampson and brother Stone, being reminded by Petty Officer "Beast," (a great John Tui) that there are sailors in the water who need to be rescued.
Key section in which Alex and Nigata begin to work together (their dynamic, contrasting styles help drive the film) while plotting their next move. When Nigata explains his water displacement strategy "seeing them without seeing them" Alex steps back and offers Nigata his chair, showing how much he has learned. Raikes (Rhianna) and other crew members give him questioning looks and he says "My brother would have done the same." One of my favorite scenes in the whole film. Watch the crew reactions as they first question and then rejoice in Nigata's clever usage of water displacement (like the battleship board game) to take out 2 alien ships.
Destroyer John Paul Jones' destruction of the the third alien ship, which in turn sends out shredders to rip up the JPJ. Incredible special effects showing the shredders ripping the ship to pieces!
A truly great scene where the survivors of the JPJ board the Might Mo. Beast says the ship is 70 years old with steam engines that he doesn't know how to run. There is a great view of the veteran sailors around the ship who come forward and step up once again when asked to fight. Great patriotic moment. I saw this on Memorial Day and the folks in the audience applauded. The Mighty Mo still packs a punch and it is worth it to see her take on the last alien ship and win. Another great section. Alex references the Art of War (a legendary Chinese guide to war strategy) several times during the film. Near the end he realizes the last confrontation reminds him of a section of Art of War. When the Mighty Mo defeats the alien ship, I love the exchange with Nigata.
Nigata, "I can't believe that worked!" Alex, "Art of War, after all these years it finally clicked! Fight the enemy where they aren't." Nigata, "That's not what that means!" Alex, "Really?" Nigata, "Not even close!"
Buy the ticket and take the ride. A number of reviewers on iTunes were surprised at the amount of action and enjoyed it as well. I think you will enjoy this fun film. I am sorry we won't get to see further adventures of Alex Hopper.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2018
Very quick review here. I really liked this movie, but some things seemed quite "Pie" in the "Sky!" Our hero's "girlfriend" actor Liam Neeson's daughter, plays a "physical" therapist. In a scene that depicts where she works, with US Military veteran's presumably, they in fact have more than 22-veteran's of all service's doing all sorts of things on "ultra-modern" to "Star-War's" like equipment, with highly caring and "apparently" highly caring personnel! If this was, in fact made to portray the US Dept. of Veteran Affairs (US DVA), well the US General Public, has in fact been very sorely misled?!?! If it was to "picture" an "ideal" world for US Armed Service veterans' of all "US Conflict's, it makes the US DVA look simply like a little person "T-Ball" league, and not even using "wood" or "aluminum" bats yet.The closet I have seen to this, in my sad and very "unfortunate" 10(+) year experience was in fact the SHARE/Shepherd Center's in Atlanta Georgia! Unfortunately, for me, due to Ex-US DVA employee had a lees than "ideal" experience her as well, but the fact remains, it puts the US DVA to shame by any and all "standards!!!!"Like this "movie" at SHARE, they encouraged utilizing "leisure" activities such as music, art, etc.. to tie in with other more serious "therapeutic goals" such as "memory" improvement, eye movement, balance, etc..... Resultant, this movie, as about US Navy, "harkened" me back to my day's stationed in USARK and fishing "Prince William Sound" in Valdez, AK, as well as made me look up "fathom's" in Webster's Third International Dictionary sold here on Amazon.com. A fathom is roughly 6-feet or 1.83 meter's and the map of "Prince William Sound" I have goes to 11-Fathoms or 66-feet!!! In the movie, they utilize "water-displacement" from US NOAA bouy's to track "Alien" craft....wonder if that is done in the "real" world, as "scientifically" possible given all the bouy's around the globe- and the advanced pace of IT-or "information" technology (9+20)!!!! (sse attached photo-presentation!!!)Furthermore, as the "Mighty Mo" was about to be sunk off "Hawaii"- it is supposedly a "British" pilot that save's the day, and the UK is one of the US "staunchest" allies- good?- "visual" depiction there!!!! Kind of a "Tandem Thrust!" so to speak!!!!Any-way, this was a very "good" and highly "thought" provoking movie- hopefully depicting where the US DVA needs to go- but as they say "its a long, hard road to get there" due to all the internal and "ex-ternal" factors that play into the US DVA! Kind of like "Catcxh-22!"
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