The film is in the tradition of the "Transformers" movies, also based on Hasbro games, and you get the feeling that Hasbro showed director Peter Berg some Michael Bay movies and told him to go and do likewise. To his credit, "Battleship" is a more entertaining film than the "Transformers" titles, because it has slightly more fully fleshed. Rotten Tomatoes, home of the Tomatometer, is the most trusted measurement of quality for Movies & TV.

Otherwise, there aren't any major product placements within the movie itself -- but there lots of tie-in products available, from special editions of the. Battleship shares some similarities with our good Lieutenant Alex: It's big. And it can feel really, really dumb at times.

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But it also knows a bit of Homer. And by that I mean it has the wisdom to know what it is and what it isn't. This is not a movie that aspires to be an Oscar contender. With Alexander Skarsgård, Brooklyn Decker, Liam Neeson, Rihanna. A fleet of ships is forced to do battle with an armada of unknown origins in order to discover and thwart their destructive goals. "Battleship Potemkin" is no longer considered the greatest film ever made, but it is obligatory for anyone interested in film history, and the other night in that small-town parking lot I got a sense, a stirring, of the buried power it still contains, awaiting a call. The film was directed by Peter Berg and stars Alexander Skarsgård, Taylor Kitsch, Brooklyn Decker, Rihanna, Tadanobu Asano, and Liam Neeson.

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Filming took place in Hawaii and on USS Missouri. In the film, the crews of a small group of warships are forced to battle against a. Chris Stuckmann and John from The Flick Pick review Battleship, starring Taylor Kitsch, Brooklyn Decker, Alexander Skarsgard, Rihanna, Asano Tadanobu and Liam Neeson.

There may be some inadvertent spoilers in this review, so beware! I went to see this movie with my girlfriend expecting an action movie with (based on the previews) really good special effects. Let's just get this out of the way up front: Battleship the movie has little to do with the Hasbro board game that it is based on - other than the fact that it involves Naval battle on the high seas. What we get instead is a slice of popcorn summer.