Battleship (2012)

Most people think so. 72% of audiences gave it a thumbs up based on 5,858 votes. Critics scored it lower at 38%, but audiences disagreed.

When mankind beams a radio signal into space, a reply comes from ‘Planet G’, in the form of several alien crafts that splash down in the waters off Hawaii. Lieutenant Alex Hopper is a weapons officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones, part of an international naval coalition which becomes the world's last hope for survival as they engage the hostile alien force of unimaginable strength. While taking on the invaders, Hopper must also try to live up to the potential that his brother, and his fiancée's father—an Admiral—expect of him. Wikipedia ↗

Battleship is a 2012 American science fiction action film directed by Peter Berg, loosely based on the Hasbro board game. Taylor Kitsch stars as Alex Hopper, a reckless young naval officer whose fleet encounters an alien invasion during the RIMPAC naval exercises near Hawaii. When an alien force field isolates several ships from the rest of the fleet, Hopper must lead a desperate defense using a decommissioned World War II battleship, the USS Missouri, crewed by elderly veterans, against technologically superior alien vessels.

The film was a spectacular commercial failure domestically — earning only $65 million against a $209 million budget — though it was rescued by international audiences who brought the worldwide total to $303 million. Rihanna made her acting debut as Petty Officer Raikes. The film featured actual U.S.

Navy veterans and active-duty personnel, and a climactic sequence in which real WWII veterans helped operate the Missouri was one of its most crowd-pleasing moments. Despite its commercial struggles, Battleship was an impressively mounted naval action spectacle.