Beyond Skyline

2017 1h 45m EN

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5.3

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70%

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5.3

IMDB

★5.3TMDB · 1,139🍅70%Rotten Tomatoes●46Metacritic★5.3IMDB · 24,899

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Synopsis

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Detective Mark Corley storms his way onto an alien spaceship to rescue his estranged son. When the ship crashes in Southeast Asia, he forges an alliance with a band of survivors to take back the planet once and for all.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Frank Grillo
Mark
Bojana Novaković
Audrey
Iko Uwais
Sua
Yayan Ruhian
The Chief
Callan Mulvey
Harper
Pamelyn Chee
Kanya
Lindsey Morgan
Captain Rose
Zarah Mahler
Vilma

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Liam O'Donnell
Writers: Liam O'Donnell
Languages: Indonesian, English
Countries: Canada, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America

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MONEY

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Earned back only 7% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.

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2 / 8

ERA

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Released 9 years ago.

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3 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: Indonesian, English.

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4 / 8

WORLD

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International production across 7 countries: Canada, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America.

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5 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Skyline Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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6 / 8

CAST

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200+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Liam O'Donnell, shot by Christopher Probst. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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8 / 8

CAST

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Frank Grillo and Bojana Novaković and Iko Uwais carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Liam O'Donnell directs. Christopher Probst behind the camera. A commercial under-performer on release. Produced in Canada, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America. Dialogue in Indonesian, English.

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Things worth knowing

1Earned back only 7% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.
2Released 9 years ago.
3Dialogue crosses 2 languages: Indonesian, English.
4International production across 7 countries: Canada, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America.
5Part of the "Skyline Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
6200+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
7Directed by Liam O'Donnell, shot by Christopher Probst. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
8Frank Grillo and Bojana Novaković and Iko Uwais carry the top of the cast.
9IMDB entry: tt1724970 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Classified under 13 themes, including "rescue", "mind control", "martial arts", "self sacrifice".
11Released under 10 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Christopher Probst
Production design: Ian Bailie
Costume design: Tania Soeprapto
Makeup / hair: Julia Perez
VFX supervisor: Patrick Flannery
Sound: Paul B. Knox
Stunt coordinator: Bilyan El Kausha
Runtime: 105 min · 1h 45m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $14,000,000
Box office: $992,181
Return: 7% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Beyond Skyline (2017)
Rotten Tomatoes: 70% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 46/100
IMDB rating: 5.3/10 · 24,899 votes
MPAA: R

Part of

Skyline Collection

Strange lights descend on the city of Los Angeles, drawing people outside like moths to a flame where an extraterrestrial force threatens to swallow the entire human population off the face of the Earth.

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Liam O'Donnell

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Gimly2018-03-09
★ 5/10
Thanks to a much better cast and the fact that things actually happen over the course of most of the runtime, Beyond Skyline is a far sight better than the original Skyline. But I cannot go so far as to say that it is, in and of itself, good. Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole.
misubisu2023-06-30
★ 6/10
The movie starts off with promise... It's an alternate view of the same timeline (start of the invasion) as seen in the the 1st movie, Skyline. It's good to see things from the perspective of the people on the ground in the heart of the city as opposed to being in the apartment complex. It even has the similar good feel of the initial movie. The problems begin when they move to the inside of the alien ship. Things get silly and it loses its mystique. They show the actual aliens controlling the ship... then you have to believe that they could build complex technology with those cumbersome claw hands, etc... etc... The fatal flaw that SciFi movies make all the time. Monster aliens verses believability. It's like when you watch a serial killer thriller... and as soon as you find out who the serial killer is, it's no longer suspenseful. Overall, it's an okay movie, but you need to turn your suspension of disbelief to maximum in the 2nd half of the movie.