Battleship: Critic Reviews

74%

MovieWeb: 14 reviews

34%

Rotten Tomatoes: 211 reviews

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Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

75

Surrounding the alien rumpus, the filmmakers have built an unexpectedly sincere salute to the awesome responsibilities of today's U.S. Navy as well as to the heroic work of veterans who came before.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Neil Genzlinger New York Times (Top Critic)

50

[It] has a plot as unambitious as a macaroni dinner, familiar and easy to eat and not particularly nutritious.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Catherine Shoard Guardian [UK] (Top Critic)

40

If you found Transformers just a touch too subtle, this is the film for you.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Claudia Puig USA Today (Top Critic)

50

Mostly, Battleship is a noisy, overlong and numbing military-vs.-aliens saga with laughably bad dialogue.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Michael O'Sullivan Washington Post (Top Critic)

75

"Battleship" is an invigorating blast of cinematic adrenaline.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Tom Russo Boston Globe (Top Critic)

38

Hey, if you're Hasbro and Universal, and you've agreed to make a movie based on nothing more than brand recognition of a game, you've got to fill two hours with something.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Nick Pinkerton Village Voice (Top Critic)

When the F-14s came out for a triumphant flyover, I looked around the room to find the moron who was applauding only to realize that it was me.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Joe Neumaier New York Daily News (Top Critic)

0

"Battleship" is the worst humans-fighting-aliens movie I've ever seen. And I've seen a lot of humans-fighting-aliens movies.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Joe Morgenstern Wall Street Journal (Top Critic)

Like "Transformers," which it rivals in relentlessness, "Battleship" comes with its own force field, a furious energy that renders criticism irrelevant.
Full Review » 1 year ago
James Rocchi MSN Movies (Top Critic)

90

... a big, bold blast so swaggeringly expressed and self-knowingly built that it wins you over with its sheer bravado.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

63

The film eventually comes down to lots of scenes in which things get blowed up real good.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Ben Sachs Chicago Reader (Top Critic)

Once the special effects take over, Berg has little room to assert his personality (or tell a story, for that matter), and the movie feels like a chore.
Full Review » 12 months ago
Colin Covert Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top Critic)

50

The film boasts a destroyer's wallop of visual effects, but not enough brains to fill a dinghy.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Tom Long Detroit News (Top Critic)

25

"Battleship" doesn't sink, really. It just sits there booming endlessly as you look on aghast.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Bill Goodykoontz Arizona Republic (Top Critic)

60

When did Peter Berg become Michael Bay's smarter brother?
Full Review » 1 year ago
Rex Reed New York Observer (Top Critic)

Battleship is dopey, preposterous and unintentionally hilarious in all the wrong places, but as directed by Peter Berg, it is also energetic, fast-moving and bracing.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Guy Lodge Variety (Top Critic)

Overlong and underwritten even by the standards of summer f/x extravaganzas, this Battleship will nonetheless float with many on the strength of its boyish, eager-to-please razzle-dazzle.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Kyle Smith New York Post (Top Critic)

38

It makes "Top Gun" look like the work of Orson Welles. At least the Tom Cruise movie remembered to cast actual actors.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Linda Barnard Toronto Star (Top Critic)

50

The loudest, dumbest alien-invasion movie based on a board game since, well, ever.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Adam Litovitz Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

50

One can be sure that heroic characters get what they want, bond with enemies, and earn respect.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Andrew O'Hehir Salon.com (Top Critic)

Berg has definitely spent his reported $200 million budget on stuff you can see. It's just all so profoundly stupid.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Dana Stevens Slate (Top Critic)

This is the kind of summer movie that softens your brain tissue without even providing the endocrine burst of pleasure that would make it all worthwhile.
Full Review » 1 year ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

38

Battleship has the IQ of a rutabaga and doesn't require much more intelligence than that to watch.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Megan Lehmann Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

Impressive visual effects and Berg's epic set pieces fight against an armada of cinematic cliches and some truly awful dialogue.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Christy Lemire Associated Press (Top Critic)

63

"Battleship" is big, dumb fun that knows it's big, dumb fun and enthusiastically embraces its big, dumb, fun nature.
Full Review » 1 year ago