Battleship: Critic Reviews

74%

MovieWeb: 14 reviews

34%

Rotten Tomatoes: 211 reviews

Steven Snyder TIME Magazine (Top Critic)

More fun than a board game blockbuster has any right to be
Full Review » 1 year ago
Peter Travers Rolling Stone (Top Critic)

25

Battleship is all noise and crashing metal, sinking to the shallows of Michael Bay's Armageddon and then digging to the brain-extinction level of the Transformers trilogy.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Richard Roeper Richard Roeper.com (Top Critic)

40

Big loud stupid dopey shameless cliched overbearing and did I mention stupid?
Full Review » 1 year ago
Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

40

Something of an earnest, two-hour infomercial that should do wonders for naval recruiting if not civilian entertainment.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Catherine Bray Film4

An assault on reason, logic and complex characterisation, but in an enjoyable way, like a slightly less camp dramatisation of the Village People's finest ship-based sing-song.
Full Review » 3 months ago
Tom Glasson Concrete Playground

40

Just like the board game, assuming the board game cost $200 million and was dumb.
Full Review » 3 months ago
Jason Gorber Twitch

75

We should celebrate the explicit nature, the unabashed and unapologetic chutzpah of a film that dares to be stupid, yet does so with so much intelligence.
Full Review » 4 months ago
Rob Humanick Projection Booth

25

This cheap-looking dung heap doesn't even bother hiding its contempt for paying audiences, and the lack of pretension almost justifies the cynicism on display.
Full Review » 6 months ago
Ali Gray TheShiznit.co.uk

40

What starts out as a seriously tense naval war thriller ends up being Pearl Harbour II: Intergalactic Boogaloo.
Full Review » 7 months ago
Kofi Outlaw ScreenRant

60

Battleship is a movie that is enjoyable beyond expectation, but doesn't offer much more than the fast-food-style fun of a summer movie spectacle.
Full Review » 8 months ago
Adam Ross The Aristocrat

40

It's not satire, it doesn't play on two levels like Starship Troopers, it's just s---... As a piece of miscalculated, American wankery, it is almost unparalleled.
Full Review » 8 months ago
Kevin Carr 7M Pictures

60

Watch the movie for its spectacle and nothing else.
Full Review » 8 months ago
Kristal Cooper We Got This Covered

40

A silly summer popcorn flick that tries too hard to be witty and tongue-in-cheek while still embracing its deadly serious commitment to being the ultimate blow-em-up action extravaganza.
Full Review » 8 months ago
Jeff Beck Examiner.com

38

It really should have been obvious to everyone involved that it was going to turn out like this.
Full Review » 8 months ago
Brian Holcomb CinemaBlend.com

50

Believe it or not, no one ever says the game's signature line. So, lets say it here, all together and with enthusiasm, "You sunk my Battleship!"
Full Review » 8 months ago
Justin Craig FoxNews.com

40

It appears a Hollywood boardroom has scraped the bottom of the barrel of originality to come up with a very long, very loud movie with almost nothing new to say.
Full Review » 8 months ago
R. L. Shaffer IGN DVD

50

Direction is sharp, but the dull assembly line story damages this hokey action picture that's occasionally so bad it's good.
Full Review » 9 months ago
William Bibbiani CraveOnline

70

Battleship is to chicken burritos what The Avengers was to shawarma.
Full Review » 9 months ago
Kirk Honeycutt honeycuttshollywood.com

0

Maybe it wasn't too smart to turn this Hasbro game into an alien-invasion movie.
Full Review » 10 months ago
Linda Cook Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

50

For an action flick that starts to sink right out of port, 'Battleship' does take a clever turn. But, boy, do you have to wait a long time for it to smarten up.
Full Review » 11 months ago
Sean Means Salt Lake Tribune

38

Any movie based on Battleship that doesn't at least throw in a PT boat isn't worthy of the name.
Full Review » 11 months ago
Jim Lane Sacramento News & Review

40

... it sounds incredibly dumb -- and it is, but not without a little fun.
Full Review » 12 months ago
Robert Roten Laramie Movie Scope

67

I am a sucker for these kinds of big, dumb action movies (I liked "John Carter" and "The Green Lantern" too), particularly if they have a good deal of science fiction in them, and this one does.
Full Review » 12 months ago
Lori Hoffman Atlantic City Weekly

38

Liam Neeson fans, beware: it's the old bait and switch tactic as he has barely more than a cameo role in this alien invasion saga.
Full Review » 12 months ago
Michael A. Smith MediaMikes

40

What's next? Lincoln Logs vs Tinkertoys?
Full Review » 12 months ago