An international fleet of naval warships encounters an alien armada while on a Naval war games exercise and faces the biggest threat mankind has ever faced. An intense battle is fought on sea, land and air. If they lose, the world could face a major extinction event and an alien invasion. Will humans win this alien war, what are the aliens doing here, and what do they want?
According to journalist Pat Jordan, when Peter Berg was researching "Battleship," he spent a few days on a Navy destroyer, and before he left, he made a short film for the Captain and crew. The Captain had earlier joked that Berg was a 'Hollywood lame ass" to ever think he could understand how the destroyer worked in only three days. Berg, in turn, joked that he could because he'd seen a lot of films, like Pearl Harbor (2001). To settle their "argument", the two played the "Battleship" board game in front of the ship's crew, while Berg sent a helicopter to film the action from above. See more »
Goofs
As is extremely common in recent movies involving the military, the film is rife with inaccuracies and impossibilities. For example, someone with a college degree might enter the serve at the lowest rank of a junior officer, if someone were to have a criminal record that includes breaking and entering, vandalism, and theft would never be accepted as an officer. However, in this movie Hopper, who has the above criminal record while also being unfit in all regards to be an officer, enters as a full Lieutenant. See more »
Quotes
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In 2005, scientists discovered a distant planet believed to have a climate nearly identical to Earth.
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In 2006, NASA built a transmission device five times more powerful than any before it, and a program to contact the planet began.
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It was known as The Beacon Project.
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Crazy Credits
There is an additional final scene after the end credits. See more »
I'm not sure why everyone is complaining about this movie. It's an action movie - not a deep social commentary or a romantic comedy.
Yeah. It had plenty of implausibilities but so what. Every movie has them.
It was well made, hero's and bad guys who had just enough weapons to be dangerous but not dangerous enough to secure the environment.
But again. This is a feel good, Cowboys & Indians movie.
Well I enjoyed it a lot and I'm kind of hard to please. It simply was not as bad as everyone says it is.
I liked the choice of actors even the two from Friday Night Lights.
The guy who played the injured sailor was pretty funny.
And what's a movie without your resident geek. Check.