Battleship
(U/A; Sci-fi)
Dir: Peter Berg
Cast: Taylor Kitsch, Rihanna, Brooklyn Decker, Liam Neeson, Alexander Skarsgard
**

Director Peter Berg’s movies have been rather well constructed and visually interesting (The Rundown, The Kingdom, Hancock) despite having second-rate plots. Battleship has a few memorable big action sequences, and at a budget of $200 million it just limps along with the smarmy fingerprints of studio interference smudging up the imagery.u00a0

It’s hard to imagine whom the filmmakers had in mind for this huge production — it’s a movie based on a board game, and it has aliens. But it has far too much boring character-talk for kids and is far too dumb for adults.