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Battleship (2012)

Based on the Hasbro naval combat game.

Director: Peter Berg
MPAA Rating:PG-13
Theatrical Release:5/18/2012

Battleship REVIEWS

Movie Reviews from Rotten Tomatoes®

" Purists might insist isn't horror in the strictest sense, though this slow-burning investigation of unseemly goings-on at a rural Christian commune is frightening in any genre language. "

Guy LodgeVariety


Claudia PuigUSA Today

" If the movie is anything like the game, I say stay at home and read a good book (or graphic novel). Or listen to an audiobook - In short, do anything else. "

Peter RainerChristian Science Monitor

" [It] has a plot as unambitious as a macaroni dinner, familiar and easy to eat and not particularly nutritious. "

Neil GenzlingerNew York Times

" Battleship is substantially less awful than it could have been. And for me, that may have been the biggest disappointment of all. "

Christopher OrrThe Atlantic

" This is the kind of summer movie that softens your brain tissue without even providing the endocrine burst of pleasure that would make it all worthwhile. "

Dana StevensSlate

" "Battleship" is an invigorating blast of cinematic adrenaline. "

Michael O'SullivanWashington Post

" Once the special effects take over, Berg has little room to assert his personality (or tell a story, for that matter), and the movie feels like a chore. "

Ben SachsChicago Reader

" It makes "Top Gun" look like the work of Orson Welles. At least the Tom Cruise movie remembered to cast actual actors. "

Kyle SmithNew York Post

" Hey, if you're Hasbro and Universal, and you've agreed to make a movie based on nothing more than brand recognition of a game, you've got to fill two hours with something. "

Tom RussoBoston Globe

" Well, it has aliens, for one thing. "

Bob MondelloNPR

" Something of an earnest, two-hour infomercial that should do wonders for naval recruiting if not civilian entertainment. "

Kenneth TuranLos Angeles Times

" Battleship is all noise and crashing metal, sinking to the shallows of Michael Bay's Armageddon and then digging to the brain-extinction level of the Transformers trilogy. "

Peter TraversRolling Stone

" Big loud stupid dopey shameless cliched overbearing and did I mention stupid? "

Richard RoeperRichard

" It's loud, it's large, it's stupid, and its best gag involves a chicken burrito. "

Amy BiancolliSan Francisco Chronicle

" The film boasts a destroyer's wallop of visual effects, but not enough brains to fill a dinghy. "

Colin CovertMinneapolis Star Tribune

" Like "Transformers," which it rivals in relentlessness, "Battleship" comes with its own force field, a furious energy that renders criticism irrelevant. "

Joe MorgensternWall Street Journal

" Battleship is dopey, preposterous and unintentionally hilarious in all the wrong places, but as directed by Peter Berg, it is also energetic, fast-moving and bracing. "

Rex ReedNew York Observer

" "Battleship" doesn't sink, really. It just sits there booming endlessly as you look on aghast. "

Tom LongDetroit News

" I was never bored. And that, sadly, makes it better than most of the other expensive and over-hyped films of its ilk. "

Alonso DuraldeThe Wrap

" One can be sure that heroic characters get what they want, bond with enemies, and earn respect. "

Adam LitovitzGlobe and Mail