Everything that you think may happen will happen. But it's the little differences in the process that make the movie enjoyable and its true filmmaking achievement. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 14, 2023

A derivative, nonsensical sci-fi project best described by comparing it to better movies.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 19, 2022

Some people will tell you that Battleship is a bad film. And they will be right. But it is still a better film than a lot of other action and effects-dominated movies out there. Especially ones based on toy franchises.

| Aug 26, 2022

Underneath the bombastic veneer of grinding metal, explosions, and destruction lies a corny and often times ridiculous story that can’t be saved by the fancy coat of CGI paint.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 19, 2022

Xenophobia abounds...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 18, 2022

Unnecessarily long, unnecessarily loud, unnecessarily bombastic... just unnecessary. Like the alien attack in the movie, you don't just watch this movie, you endure, hoping to survive another day.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Jan 31, 2021

The hero is stubborn, brash, arrogant, and vapid - not good traits for someone audiences are supposed to root for.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Dec 1, 2020

A bad rip-off of a Transformers film.

| Original Score: 1.5/4.0 | Sep 2, 2020

The entire plot hinges on a stolen microwave chicken burrito, so...

| Original Score: C | Jul 12, 2020

Ridiculous, but entertaining.

| Jul 29, 2019

This action adventure manages to have some fun moments here and there, but ultimately is nothing more than a lot of spare parts from better source material.

| Apr 12, 2019

Just what did this movie have to do with the 'Battleship board game? Other than the title and a couple of bits that seemed forced at best and hokey at worst, there was no real correlation.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 21, 2019

The cast and crew of Battleship strive valiantly to win us over, but it's not nearly unique enough for us to overlook its flaws, or fun enough for us to forget about its lack of creative inspiration.

| Original Score: C | Feb 2, 2019

An unashamed, "Independence Day at sea" slugfest that somehow manages to just about keep its head above water, mostly due to a comedic sense of self-awareness.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 5, 2019

If they'd simply sped things up and tailored it for the short attention spans it's geared towards, Battleship may have been a more enjoyable film.

| Sep 8, 2018

It turned a fairly basic game into a perfectly serviceable action film, and then it leveled itself up by making a game about destruction into a movie about cooperation.

| Aug 24, 2018

If Battleship does show us quite how contrived the alien invasion genre has gotten, it also provides us with plenty of evidence of why we still love it.

| May 21, 2018

Battleship is logic-free Michael Bay-style fodder where nothing's at stake and even the jingoism is hard to take seriously. Everyone loses.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 27, 2017

If ever a movie had 'Paid for by the U.S. Navy' written all over it... 'Battleship' is tailored kitsch -- tailored to recruit male teens. Taylor Kitsch does a surprisingly good job of this.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 1, 2016

Ladies and gentlemen, the reductio ad absurdum of dumb summer blockbusters.

Full Review | May 3, 2015