Review by Bob Ignizio
At the advance screening for BATTLESHIP
I attended, I found myself talking to the person in the seat next to
me. Seems he had already seen the movie while on vacation in England.
His assessment of the film: “It's good. It's like TRANSFORMERS.”
I pass no judgment on this man. The fact is, there are a lot of
people out there for whom the two parts of that statement present no
contradiction, and nothing a critic might say about such a film
either way is likely to change their desire or lack thereof to see a
movie like this. I guess that's why, after sitting through the first
mind-numbing 90 minutes of the two hours-plus BATTLESHIP,
I didn't feel all that guilty for deciding to walk out.
Perhaps
in the final 40 minutes of the film which I missed, something
surprising or at least interesting occurred. And perhaps, seeing as I
did not stick with the film until the bitter end, I have no business
reviewing it. That's your call as a reader to make. Regardless, I
give you my thoughts on what I did see.
