Nevertheless they have quite a few locations and different types of aliens and ships and what not. The reported budget is $20 million dollars, which is alot of money to you or I, but it’s almost $200 million less than the last TRANSFORMERS movie.
If that’s accurate, this has a much larger scale to it. I seem to remember that people were disappointed in the first one because it was mostly confined to one apartment building (apartment?). The first film’s screenwriter Liam O’Donnell (also an FX guy) graduates to director here, with the Brothers Strause as producers and Hydraulx continuing to show off both digital imagery and sophisticated rubber suit type shit. PREDATOR: REQUIEM, as well as to showcase the talents of their FX company Hydraulx. I imagine it was an attempt to have more control than on their also-panned directorial debut ALIENS VS. SKYLINE was directed by the FX-artist brothers Greg and Colin Strause. Before long they’re watching gigantic motherships hover above the city, vagina monsters trying to eat them, towering Cthulus attacking, mechanical tentacles ripping out brains, aliens inside aliens like Russian nesting dolls, all types of shit. It’s a Spielberg’s-WAR-OF-THE-WORLDS-style ground-eye-view of the invasion, but these are people who witness all kinds of crazy business. Mark flashes his badge (no need for anybody to know he’s suspended) and becomes de facto leader of the passengers walking to safety. But they’re underground so they assume it’s just a power outage or something when the train breaks down. So, messed up father and son are right in the middle of bonding on the subway when what should happen but a fucking alien invasion, or “skyline” as it’s called in this universe (that is speculation, as I mentioned I have not seen part 1).
Mark can’t help but let out a proud “ Nice,” and Grillo’s delivery makes me forgive all the cliches leading up to that moment. While Mark is lecturing Trent about his life choices, the young man reveals that he didn’t technically beat the guy up, he just punched him one time, but it was a really good punch. Mark has to come to the station to pick up his son Trent (Jonny Weston, JOHN DIES AT THE END) who is not a drinker and prefers to express his inner turmoil in the medium of other people’s faces (he broke some guy’s jaw). (At least it’s not the standard “You look like shit.”) When his partner Garcia (Jacob Vargas, THE PRINCIPAL) tells him “You look worse than I imagined” it’s kinda funny because Garcia is a bit of a slob but Mark is chiseled and well-groomed. He plays an LAPD detective who, you will be in no way surprised to hear, is currently suspended because he’s been drinking so much since the death of his wife.
Grillo’s rugged charisma anchors this messy, ambitious low budget special effects showcase. You gotta go a little lowbrow like THE PURGE: ANARCHY to see him as full-on leading man. He caught my eye in THE GREY and WARRIOR, and he was the main villain in the Chinese smash WOLF WARRIOR 2, but generally when he gets into big movies it’s like secondary villain in CAPTAIN AMERICA 2 and 3 or “Squadron Commanding Officer” in ZERO DARK THIRTY. Chances are you either already love him or are unfamiliar with his recent ascension to torch-bearer of a certain masculine ideal. But for now it’s a pretty effective hook.Ī better reason to watch it is the actual lead, Frank Grillo. I mean if it gets to the point where they’re doing non-fighting cameos in Sandra Bullock relationship dramas or wacky ironic “grindhouse” movies with Danny Trejo and Sid Haig then my dedication will be tested.
#Beyond skyline reddit movie#
The fact of the matter is if they put those two in a movie then there’s a high chance I’m gonna watch it.
SKYLINE is an alien invasion movie that I haven’t seen and never heard anything good about, but now there’s a sequel on VOD called BEYOND SKYLINE, and it has Iko Uwais and Yayan Ruhian from THE RAID in supporting roles.
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