Review of Beyond Skyline (2017) by Casandracomplex — 24 Jan 2021

Finally I get to give a positive review about something! I don't understand why this movie has such lacklustre reviews. It had a smidge of corn ball but nothing compared to the terminator movies. It wasn't predictable at all, creature features were original and their methods somewhat graphic to good effect .

. I absolutely adored the Martial arts fighting brother and sister that we meet halfway through.. absolutely bad ass. Great catch phrases like, everything burns, effing Americans and finally effing Aliens were well delivered and not overdone.

The child aspect was not trite, sacrine nor overly cliched like every dang show in media lately. Not once did we have to sit through the, mommy, mommy, mommy repeated at us like Hollywood usually does.

The kid was for the most part, silent which was refreshing to say the least because we all know how Hollywood likes using children as sock puppets to preach to the adults in a film to promote whatever schlock their peddling, usually ultra liberal caa caa.

Not to mention what Jean Claud Van Dam made a child actress say about the size of his wang for one of his films... ugh! OMIGOD! That was sickening. Yeah there was some basic tropes in it but never once did the film dwell in any of them.

. they used the tropes to push the story forward and then abandoned them like the cheap ";:;'s" that they are. Tee hee. I genuinely liked this movie a lot, not Shakespeare but a good, original alien action flick that was totally enjoyable to watch.

So I'm intentionally rating this a smidge higher than I normally would because of what I perceive to be unwarranted disapproval. Definitely give this film a shot if you like the genre.. if you don't like the genre then don't bother and why rate it if you don't anyhow.