Skyline (2010 88min.) [C4 1.05am saturday &+1]
Sci-fi thriller starring Eric Balfour, Scottie Thompson and Brittany Daniel. Jarrod and his girlfriend Elaine travel to Los Angeles to meet up with an old friend, Terry, and celebrate his birthday with a big party at his penthouse flat. But during the night, flashing lights appear in the sky and it quickly becomes apparent that an alien invasion is taking place and their lives are in peril.
Dumb, faintly absurd, camp sci-fi thriller that mixes and matches elements of several much better films to produce a curious mixture of CGI driven effects and "beautiful people in peril" that often topples over the thin line between fun and stupid.
A solid cast of "oooh it's him/her off the telly" (the lead actor was Tuck in 'Scrubs') battle with some over-ripe dialogue while attempting to avoid The Alien Invaders.
As is so often the case with this sort of film the writers had no idea how to end it (does the Earth get saved? If so how? If not, what happens next?) and so opt for a laughable quasi-mystical sequence that rather undermines the flashy, crashy, showy stuff that's gone before.
Fun but not to be taken at all seriously.
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