Review of Skylines (2020) by S3Ver14N — 14 May 2021

D: The film's finished.

P: Cool, is at least as good as the first two? Oh, and what's the runtime?

D: Yeah, it takes a bit of a different direction though, but you'll love it. P: That's great, how long is it? D: It has great SFX, we'veD: The film's finished.

P: Cool, is at least as good as the first two? Oh, and what's the runtime?

D: Yeah, it takes a bit of a different direction though, but you'll love it.

P: That's great, how long is it?

D: It has great SFX, we've switched from Independence Day to Stargate as a theme. Also crammed in all those Aliens references you wanted.

P: Super. You seem to be avoiding questions about it's length though?

D: How to you mean?

P: You know, runtime, length, duration, how long does my bladder have to hold out since we don't have intervals now?

D: Ah, well, it's a little over 3,600 seconds.

P: You mean an hour?

D: No, well, yeah, okay. It is. But it does everything it needs to. Honest.

P: Dude, the third instalment has to be be the longest - we've really got to be pushing bladder control here! The studio demands it.

D: Well, I've got nothing else....

P: How about we hire someone to direct a really high quality first half that won't feel like it's been crammed in at all?

D: Yeah, cool. Can we keep the same dialog writer though?

P: What, you mean the fella who wrote "There's no use fighting it", "Now I am become death", "We're not in Kansas anymore", "I have to finish this myself" and other such classics?

D: Yeah, that's him!

P: Okay, whatever. But what about that line "Between your serum and my ship we have enough power now to cure everyone."?

D: What do you mean?

P: So, how does Rose know about the Serum?

D: Well, um, you know, she just does, she has alien super powers or magic or something....

P: And how does the doc know about Rose's ship?

D: Well, err, again, ah, ok, okay, hmm...

P: Look, never mind. Folk will love it anyway - it's proper action filled, disengage brain B-Movie fodder like the first two.