Synopsis/Review: Battleship

With the advanced technology that NASA has, they found a planet that similar to earth, named Planet G, and decided to communicate with it. So they sent a signal to the planet, hoping they would return the signal to communicate with NASA.

Instead of getting a signal as a reply for their first signal, earth got a reply of 5 alien ships! 

One of the ship, believed to be a communication ship, hit a satellite and was destroyed to pieces, while the other 4 'landed' at the pacific ocean near Hawaii.

At that time, there's a RIMPAC event. RIMPAC is the world largest international maritime exercise that is hosted by the United States in Hawaii. Many countries joined the exercise, including Japan. 

When the 4 ships hit the ocean, Alex Hopper (Taylort Kitsch), Stone Hopper (Alexander Skarsgard), and Nagata (Tadanobu Asano), where each of them captained one battleship, were doing the exercise nearby that area.

Alex Hopper, Raikes (Rihanna), and another Navy soldier was instructed to check the alien ships. 

When Hopper approached the ship, the alien ships suddenly beamed laser and covered the area around them. The area included the 3 battleship that were captained by the Hoppers brother and Nagata, plus some islands that has some antennas that was used to transmit the signal to Planet G. 

With the laser covered the area, the 3 battleships were separated with the main ships armada that was led by Admiral Shane (Liam Neeson). They couldn't contact anyone beyond the area.

From the here, the battle between the 3 battleships and the alien ships begun ...

The Battle Begins at Sea ...

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In the trailer, it said about Hasbro, the company that brought you Transformer. Hasbro is a toy company, and perhaps you remember the game Battleship. I like to play this game many years ago ... It's like I have one board that has a coordinate. And then I put my ships in random coordinates, and my opponent does the same thing. To attack, I just say some coordinate, and if my opponent's ship is in the coordinate that I said, then it will lose one life (depends how long is the ships). So this movie was based in this game! Interesting!

I really love this kind of movie, the human race VS the alien race, where the alien has bigger and more sophisticated gun, while we only have regular gun. I love to see, how the human with its limitation try to survive and attack the alien. 

Although there are a lot of movies with similar theme, but I still see Battleship as a great movie to watch! I watch this because of the cool factor, not the story :) and I was expecting this movie when I first watched the trailer, even when I didn't realize that Rihanna is also in the movie :D

Btw, I read somewhere telling that there's an after credit! I missed it :(. So if you want ... sit tight until the end :)

So have fun, and enjoy the movie.