So it comes as quite a surprise that seven long years later there is indeed a sequel, speerheaded by the original’s writer and even more surprising this is actually a damned fine B-movie that delivers pretty much everything the first film failed to do. The film may have made way more than it’s money back but there was clearly no appitite for a sequel by anyone, not least of all the original directors, the Brothers Strause who had worse things to do ( Alien Vs Predator: Requiem). Maybe because it was so brazenly rubbish and useless, or maybe I just admired the balls some people had to just toss out such an non-climax. Weirdly I found this ludicrous ending deeply entertaining. It was NOT a good way to end a film, money or no money. There were some stills of Jarrod-Beast fighting off other aliens but these looked like rendered concept art they never got round to doing. Whether they ran out of money or just thought no one needed anything more was never explained. Somehow Jarrod is able to control his new body and goes off to rescue his woman and unborn child and… that was it! The film just ended. If you remember (can you?) the surviving couple at the end of the flick are sucked into the alien mother ship and the chap, Jarrod, has his brain popped out and dropped into a weird creature/mecha suit whilst Elaine, pregnant with child, is whipped off to some kind of slimey monster nursey. Okay, that isn’t the only the reason people didn’t like Skyline. If it had been seen on a sturday night rental with some mates and some beers it would have been a riot, rather than causing riots in theatres across America with audiences demanding their money back. Take away those expectations however and what you were left with was a creepy little b-movie with some great effects. Its not surprising that audiences turned against it. It was still just a cheap single location film with a bunch of characters bouncing off each other until they get their brains sucked out. However the cinema going public clearly expcted the rest of the movie to be like those shots but it wasn’t. And who wouldn’t? They looked fantastic and were good enough to sell any science fiction movie. It was these shots that were shown in the trailer. They had basically shot an entire film in a mate’s apartment and then had the characters look out of the window and see the massive scale alien invasion occuring across Los Angeles. Admittedly this was partly the film makers own fault. Audiences went in expecting a big budget studio flick and what they got was a cheap B movie with studio evel effects. I think this was very unfair as people’s reaction seemed to be more about expectations rather than the quality of the film itself. When Skyline came out in 2010 there was one thing everyone could agree on: they all hated it.
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