Oh god, where to begin? Skyline is one of those movies that comes along every few years. It looks excellent in the sfx-ridden trailers, the hype starts up and then you go and watch it. And want your money back.

The plot is simple: aliens come to Earth and begin abducting people. A small group are trapped in a hotel room. They plan to make a run for it. Then stay and hide. Then run for it. Then stay and hide. Then… sod it, they’re idiots.

What we have here is a failure to communicate. This film wants so very much to be Independence Day, even going so far to have aerial shoot-outs and a big nuke. It also wants to be Cloverfield, with the small band of survivors being caught up in the action. What it ends up being is a bunch of characters for whom you have no concern, endlessly see-sawing between the cliche options you’d expect.

And as you learn more about the aliens you become only more confused. Their purpose for harvesting humans is laughable at best, but becomes idiotic in the final act as things turn to mush. It’s as if the writers just gave up and wrote whatever popped into their heads after smoking a bag of weed.

Seriously, if you’ve seen the trailers you’ve seen all of the best parts of the film. There is nothing else worth watching for. Period.

My rating: 20%