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Information
- Year
- 2017
- Runtime
- 106 min.
- Director
- Liam O'Donnell
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Horror
- Rating *
- 5.3
- Votes *
- 12,614
- Checks
- 329
- Favs
- 4
- Dislikes
- 22
- Favs/checks
- 1.2% (1:82)
- Favs/dislikes
- 1:6
Top comments
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Marasmusine
For a sequel no-one asked for, this kept me entertained throughout. Starts as sci-fi and then progressively stirrs in martial arts and kaiju battles until it resembles the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. 5 years 11 months ago -
DisneyStitch
It's almost two different movies, one in LA, the other in Laos. Needless to say the first half is pretty decent and the other not so much. I actually thought that the first movie was pretty good and I have to admit I was curious what would happen next. After watching this next chapter I think I can safely say that I shouldn't have been excited in the first place.
The effects are good though, definitely on-par for a rather low budget alien movie. 5 years 9 months ago -
Siskoid
Seven years after the original, Beyond Skyline ALSO starts with Day One of the Los Angeles invasion, but with Frank Grillo in the lead as a cop trying to protect his son and the small group that assembles around them during these events. Though audiences seem to give this straight-to-streamers sequel more of a pass than the original, I disagree. For one thing, the pacing is all over the map. The first half hour repeats many of the beats of Skyline, so quickly that viewers coming to this one first will fear they just had an aneurysm. I'm not even sure the timeline works and was always asking how much time had passed between set pieces (to be fair, I had the same problem with the original, to a lesser degree). We see more of the aliens, but giving them humanoid forms makes them more generic and leads to a lot of rubber suit fighting right out of the Guyver or something. The effects are, in fact, a lot dodgier than in the first movie. When it moves to Southeast Asia and Grillo pairs up with Laotian rebels (including The Raid's Iko Uwais), the action gets better, but then there's a magic blood plot point right out of a David S. Goyer script and my attention started to wander. As a director, Liam O’Donnell has even more problems with clarity than the Strause Brothers did. But the connections he draws between the two stories as a writer sows seeds of a third film... 1 year 6 months ago