Review – Skyline

According to the IMDb notes on this movie, they spent $500,000 making the movie and $10 million adding visual effects in post-production. And it shows on both counts. The story is warmed-up leftovers from big-budget mediocrities such as War of the Worlds and Independence Day. But the filmmakers seem to be hoping that they can drop some fancy CGI monsters into a low-budget Cloverfield project and get away with it. In their partial defense, some of the alien stuff is sorta fun. Sadly, it’s impossible to care enough about the empty-headed band of alien attack survivors to really get into the story at all (even to the extent that it has a story to begin with). See if desperate