Alien invasion movies don't need an excessive amount of fine-tuning to succeed. Sure, the finest features in the subgenre put in the time and effort to give audiences a rowdy ride of chills and spills, but as long as aliens focus on their furious attacks and a collection of screamy humans are dutifully riled up and on the run to safety, basic entertainment requirements are taken care of. "Skyline" seeks to challenge that theory, taking an encouraging premise of intergalactic war around Los Angeles and reducing it to bits of dismal, deadening CGI-laden chaos sandwiched between lengthy stretches of tedious, amateurish dramatic filler. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com
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