FrankenScript :: Lee Gabel's Screenwriting Journal/Blog

Watching this after Battle: Los Angeles seemed like a good idea, good in that they are basically the same story, except Skyline is told from a civilian point of view. However, the film is far from good. 90% of the film takes place indoors, and we rarely see the aliens. We aren’t told why this [...]

Forgettable slasher flick that adds nothing new or exciting to the genre. Sorry, I’ve already wasted 90 minutes of my life on this, I’m not going to waste any more writing about it.

Thomas Jane should either stick to acting or pick his scripts more carefully. For his debut, this was awful. This could have been a good film, but I kept getting distracted by the TERRIBLE visual effects, complete lack of continuity and nonsensical script. I had no idea this was shot in 3D until after I [...]

Damn. This film was terrible. This film suffers from the false notion that startling the audience is the same as scaring them. It’s not. To scare an audience, you need to build up tension and suspense and serve up a nice payoff. You get none of that here. Instead, you get scene after scene of [...]

At times visually stunning, but equally chaotic, loud, explosive and hard to follow. A thin story make this sequel entirely forgettable. Plus it’s too damn long. It’s more of the same, no surprises. Mindless and mind numbing.

Disaster is right. Cheaply made crap with no-name actors in hopes of making a profit in the first weekend’s ticket sales. This is the kind of movie where you can watch it in fast forward without sound and still understand what’s going on. And it’s not 90 minutes long. It’s 70 minutes with a lame [...]