Beyond Skyline

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Ron S Feb 17, 2019 Starts out in much the same way as the first Skyline with monstrous CGI, but then takes some crazy turn midway through. Not in a bad way. See more

Theodore W Feb 8, 2019 A sequel that followed up a not so great film, but manages to do a better job. When the population of Los Angeles is vacuumed off the face of the earth, Detective Mark Corley (Frank Grillo) storms his way onto an alien ship to rescue his estranged son. But after crashing the ship in Southeast Asia, he must forge an alliance with a band of survivors to discover the key to saving his son and taking back the planet once and for all. It's weird because like I said in my review before this, "Skyline" wasn't a great film. Surprising enough, they came out with a sequel. Even more surprising, it was by the same director / writer! I mean, it surprises me that he would get another chance (granted I don't know the box office numbers for these films). While we do get a better film, it still faces plenty of problems. First off, I feel like Frank Grillo has been in this situation before. You know, running through the streets from an unknown force, being a bad ass, saving people. But I mean, he does great in these roles! The other actors were iffy - except for the fact that it seemed like half of the "Purge: Anarchy" cast was in this film. But Grillo carried the show amongst some other forgettable performances. Even though it improved from the second, the story here was just bland. The screenplay behind it just wasn't that great. There was some not so great dialogue, some confusing moments, and incoherent story methods of story telling. Yes we got to explore this world more and I thought that was really cool, but it doesn't betray the fact that it just wasn't a well written or well directed piece. The world that this film is based in is really interesting - I'll give the film that much credit. It even had a pretty exciting finale (not related). With saying both those things, I'm just saying that this movie has a couple of things going for it, even if it is a bit ridiculous at times. It's effects aren't that great and with that being said, I'm fine with iffy effects if I feel like it makes the story better. But here it made it feel like a gimmick, a B-movie of sorts. In the end, "Beyond Skyline" is certainly a better follow up than expected, even with all its flaws. The fact that it bombed so hard at the box office though is troubling. Either way, the film is on Netflix so if you have time, it's not the worst action film you could watch, it's just disjointed. See more

Anakin R Feb 1, 2019 At first you think you're about to see some random alien movie but this one was really great, there's a good story, an exellent casting and a lot of references to every sci-fi movie. See more

George W Jan 18, 2019 Even the original B-team cast didn't want to return for more mediocrity; Bojana Novakovic is a nice breath of fresh air

Jan 1, 2019 I guess they run out of money before writing dialogues.

Draco P Dec 25, 2018 Liam O'Donnell was the producer on the weak original PG-13 alien invasion film "Skyline," but he returned seven years later as writer/director with a surprisingly good R-rated sequel for Netflix. One of the main weaknesses of the first film was that it was populated with uninteresting and even annoying 20-something characters (watch "Cloverfield" for a much better 20-something alien invasion film), but this sequel takes place during the same alien invasion with a completely new (and not annoying) set of characters. The main character is AN alcoholic LAPD detective, Frank Grillo, trying to save his no-good teenage son from being abducted by the invading alien force. When Grillo gets aboard an alien spacecraft, he discovers the aliens are stealing human brains to implant into their alien soldiers. With some help, Grillio manages to bring the spaceship down, crashing in Thailand where he meets up with, BOOM, "The Raid's" Iko Uwais! After a wary initial meeting, the two team up to save a baby Grillo rescued from the spacecraft who might be the key to defeating the aliens. Compared to the first film, this sequel is populated with much more conventional of action film of characters, with Grillo hot off of The Purge films, in a tough cop role, but best of all the inclusion of Uwais, who became an international action sensation in Gareth Edwards dizzying Raid films. Outside of a bit part in "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" this was his first major role in an American production that allowed Uwais to show his fighting skills. The fights are nowhere as good as Edwards' fight sequences, but they're pretty darn good. The other thing going for this film is that the story moves quickly from one event to the next and is constantly pushing the story forward, with character discover something new about every 10 minutes, so unlike "The Purge: Anarchy," where Grillo seemed to endless yell "Keep moving!" over and over as characters moved form one random situation to another. But overall, "Beyond Skyline" is a big improvement over the original, and although it's nowhere as smart as say "District 9" and is nowhere as fun as say "Independence Day," it's a pretty satisfying alien invasion picture and I would definitely watch a sequel if they made one. See more

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