War of the Worlds Weaving from the secondary - something original and exciting - is already a rather difficult task, and the right idea to submit, without throwing genre errors and not restrained in tenacious clichés - and almost impossible at all. Nevertheless, Skyline gives such a grandiose and impressive spectacle that many similar plots go far from the background, and powerful blockbusters and hits look with envy at the impeccable quality of implementation.
In fact, before us is not so much a fantastic thriller about an alien invasion as a large-scale disaster film, with a characteristic atmosphere and playfully arranged spectacular plot details. With the seemingly elementary nature of history - a sudden attack by alien ships, abductions and destruction of the planet - very many elements look new, and the vast majority of ideas are full of originality in their embodiment.
The film amazes with the incredible quality of detail and virtuosity of the execution of graphics, diverse organisms and their ships of various designs and structures look absolutely realistic, making you believe in what is happening on the screen and make you experience these rather creepy, but at the same time technically beautifully executed, events! In some places, the scenes evoke similar moments in the memory of other films, the “Monster”, “War of the Worlds”, and of course “Independence Day”, but this film is not full of such duplicates, does not look secondary or parasitic on success. “Skyline” looks fresh look, specific and exciting genre attraction.
The plot does not slide into excessive drama, does not focus on tearful scenes and family values. The only task of the characters of the film is to survive, and if possible, of course, to preserve humanity. On the other hand, the main characters turned out to be quite empty and not pleasant, in all this hopeless battle for life in the end, in fact, no one is sorry, and the dwindling number of main characters does not play any significant role.
The actors are also in no hurry to express expression and realistic feelings, the played horror and the humbug kiss look as if they wrote it all into the plot only for a tick, during the modification of the script, in order to betray the cardboard woods at least some kind of humanity, but in the end all attempts go nowhere, and the small share of emotions that are somehow present in the picture is too small for the viewer to empathize with the main characters, and at the same time was interested in their fate.
Perhaps not the best cast and its corresponding bad acting are the only drawbacks of the film. An interesting plot with well-thought-out twists, forcing to keep intrigue and elements of surprise, holds until the very end, managing to answer the vast majority of accumulated questions in the last minutes of such five, and the above-mentioned quality of the graphics causes sincere delight. Terrible diverse creatures, strange mechanisms, bio-mechanical structures and others like living objects, located somewhere beyond common understanding, at the same time frighten with their appearance and action, but at the same time admire the skill of design, the level of detail of textures and the beautiful implementation of graphic elements. Special effects with their variety and high quality here and make the whole film exactly as it turned out.
All that in the end still remained without explanation, will probably still be told in a possible sequel, since such a stunning movie is simply obliged to have audience success, large fees and even, for sure, more than one sequel. “Skyline” can safely claim the status of cultism, and forever make its place in the history of modern cinema, fitting in with a huge positive status. Brilliant creation, full of originality and stunning special effects!
9 out of 10
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