Dir: Colin and Greg Strause (Eric Balfour, Scottie Thompson, Donald Faison)
Even before I saw the trailer for Skyline, people were telling me that it was going to be like an 'adults Independence Day'. I promptly went onto IMDB, found the trailer, and my interest was piqued. 'This looks promising,' methinks.
As it turns out, the rumours were, indeed, true.
Everyone's seen the nature documentarys, or even the scene in finding nemo, with the deep sea angler fish, using bioluminescent lures to tempt unsuspecting fish into their mouths. This seems to be the same premise with the invaders in this, and also to continue the latest trend to follow onlookers as oppose to the people fighting the invaders, as seen in Matt Reeves' Cloverfield.
The film starts with the now iconic LA skyline being bombarded with blue lights before a flashback to Terry's (Faison) birthday party. A classic LA, all out, drink-a-skinful bash.
Then the lights come, and Jarrod (Balfour) looks into the light and gets the funky skin art around his eyes that we all know and love from the trailer, but manages not to do as every other moth human seems to and walks towards the light. Cue witty bugs life quote here.
As the film prgoresses, he looks into the light several more times whilst trying to save his pregnant girlfriend Elaine (Thompson) and others, all to the backdrop of what's left of the military fighting back.
I'm loathe to say much more, without revealing a boatload of spoilers so, as the main thing seems to be to compare Skyline as an adults Independence Day, here are some similarities and differences between ID4 and Skyline.
i) ID4 aliens come to blow shit up, Skyline aliens come to abduct.
ii) Both films don't go into the origins of the invaders.
iii) ID4 only has one type of alien, Skyline has flying squids, and giant apes.
iv) Both films have stupendously cheesy endings.
All in all Skyline seems a damn site better than ID4, and would highly recommend it.
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