Skylines

"To save our world she must invade theirs."

2020 1h 53m EN

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5.6

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★5.6TMDB · 632

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Synopsis

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When a virus threatens to turn the now earth-dwelling friendly alien hybrids against humans, Captain Rose Corley must lead a team of elite mercenaries on a mission to the alien world in order to save what's left of humanity.

“To save our world she must invade theirs.”

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Cast

Lindsey Morgan
Rose Corley
Alexander Siddig
General Radford
Rhona Mitra
Dr. Mal
Daniel Bernhardt
Owens
Yayan Ruhian
Huana
James Cosmo
Grant
Jonathan Howard
Leon
Ieva Andrejevaitė
Alexi

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Liam O'Donnell
Writers: Liam O'Donnell, Matthew E. Chausse
Languages: English
Countries: Lithuania, Spain, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America

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1 / 8

MONEY

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Mid-budget at $70M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.

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MONEY

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Earned back only 0% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.

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3 / 8

ERA

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Released 6 years ago.

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4 / 8

WORLD

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International production across 5 countries: Lithuania, Spain, United Arab Emirates, 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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204+ 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 Alain Duplantier. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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8 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Barrett Heathcote shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Liam O'Donnell directs. Alain Duplantier behind the camera. Barrett Heathcote cuts. A commercial under-performer on release. Produced in Lithuania, Spain, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Mid-budget at $70M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.
2Earned back only 0% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.
3Released 6 years ago.
4International production across 5 countries: Lithuania, Spain, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America.
5Part of the "Skyline Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
6204+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
7Directed by Liam O'Donnell, shot by Alain Duplantier. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
8Editor Barrett Heathcote shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
9Lindsey Morgan and Alexander Siddig and Rhona Mitra carry the top of the cast.
10Marketing tagline: "To save our world she must invade theirs.".
11IMDB entry: tt9387250 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
12Classified under 16 themes, including "mind control", "spacecraft", "martial arts", "self sacrifice".

The technical file

Cinematography: Alain Duplantier
Editing: Barrett Heathcote
Production design: Cédric Van Eesbeek
Costume design: Lena Mossum
Makeup / hair: Diana Šiaučiulytė-Chmieliauskė
VFX supervisor: Thomas Loeder
Sound: Brian Gilligan
Stunt coordinator: Yoon Cha-Lee
Runtime: 113 min · 1h 53m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $70,000,000
Box office: $170,581
Return: 0% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Skylines (2020)

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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Kamurai2021-06-05
★ 4/10
Not a good watch, won't watch again, and can't recommend. I was so excited to see Lindsey Morgan (Raven, "The 100") in a thing, and a cool looking alien dystopian thing at that. They almost immediate thrashed my dreams. Apparently there is an entirely "better" movie that we skipped to get to this one, and even that one was pretty odd. Ripping brains out of human heads to use as bio PCs for alien androids is just odd. It's not good, but it's not really that bad, just weird. The movie we do get is more of a alien fantasy story as opposed to the typical science fiction story with psychic/super powers, unnecessary and awkward aliens that only add subtitles. It sort of becomes "The Matrix" after a bit, but just a lot stranger feeling.
Dark Jedi2021-08-05
★ 7/10
Maybe you have to be a bit more of a science fiction fan than most to like this movie but, personally, I do not really understand why its ratings seems to be so poor? Sure it is not great but I rather enjoyed it. The movie takes place a few years after the second movie, Beyond Skyline, in the franchise. A bit sad that they chose to have a rather apocalyptic setting where humanity really didn’t seem to have benefited from their new “allies” nor from the technology they actually acquired in the previous movie. Unfortunately the writers also decided to go with a really standard Hollywood villain in the psychopathic, out of control, kill everything General Radford. Hollywood’s choices of bad guys are unfortunately rather limited in these agenda driven days. If we overlook the poor bad guy and the poor plot that resulted from that choice (not sure which came first, the silly plot or the poor bad guy though) then what remains is really a very decent action movie with a fair amount of cool special effects. There’s a fair amount of action. Both martial arts ones and the more trigger happy variety. The space scenes are also not bad at all and the monsters, well of course the old “baddies” are back and they added a few more varieties. On the whole, I quite enjoyed the movie. Sure, it doesn’t really put too much load on the viewers’ brains but still, it is a quite decent movie. The one thing that annoyed me though, apart from the dumbass General, was Rose’s powers always shorting out at critical moments, even after she had supposedly overcome the interference of the “queen”.