Battle for Skyark

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Look at the cover. The spacecraft is within the atmosphere. Consistent with movie, nice. Within minutes the line "get some rest" is used. A line usually reserved for after the first act. Maybe? I made it 16 solid minutes in and then fast forwarded to the end. I'm into cheese. Like "what do you call an apple that has fallen next to you?.... Fruit by the foot" .. Thats Cheese, not for everyone, I understand. Like many things. This movie is uncheese. Its rotten cheese. If you are the creator reading this please don't let the bad reviews get you down. Finishing a feature length film is a huge accomplishment. Congrats. And hey lionsgate... Your fired.-john

The worst film ever created an IMDb score of 2.8/10 which is too high. The title is the most misleading thing ever, Battle of which there are none, Skyark has no direct link to the film other than being thrown off it. The trailer ruins the whole film I'm sure you shouldn't do that in trailers but it was so poorly executed it doesn't matter. "Rags" is the main character from what I can gather however the story is so poorly written it's so hard to tell, Rags parents hated him they weren't poor they just named him Rags so it's understandable that he was thrown off. In the end Rags drinks some blue liquid and no it isn't Powerade he has seen that it makes you into a monster but drinks it anyway and then is SURPRISED when he turns into a monster. The cover of the film has no quotes as it's so bad, the acting is poor so there is no mention of the actors. The back claims the monsters are alien monsters when they're just other people. There is a short child who shows autistic traits, I was really happy when he died but he comes back, I wanted to die especially badly at that point. Overall this film is poorly executed. It is possible to make a good film on a small budget like "Paranormal Activity" however they completely messed that up. Don't waste your time on this film 85 minutes could be spent shopping or doing something you enjoy. I wouldn't rate this film as it doesn't deserve it.

Probably the worst movie I have ever seen in my entire life. Complete waste of time. The acting was horrible. The story was horrible. The whole movie was completely horrible. I still cannot get over the acting of this movie, just utter horrendous acting. I hope I never see any of those actors in any movie I watch in the future. I cannot stop saying it, this is the most atrocious movie I have ever seen or ever will. This movie should be given an award for being so horrible. It is so horrendous, that its just beyond sense. I don't know how in the world the producers even thought this could be a movie. I strongly recommend not watching it. You will just waste 1 hour and 30 minutes of your life. You have been warned.

That is unless you want something horrendously bad to laugh at and break down as what not to do. I don't typically write reviews but something about this movie struck me as so terrible that it had to be put into words. I will break this down into parts. Writing/Screenplay : The lines in this movie were terrible, so many awkward moments, a lot of melancholy and drawn out scenes while the important scenes just seemed rushed and lacking substance. I found myself wondering about half way through the movie how is could possibly not be over yet. The actions of the characters seemed almost random and as if they were incompetent. They would do something and almost immediately change their mind, or there would be a long pause to "think about" what you're doing or should doing in an "act now" scenario. The entire premise, plot, and plot development of the movie just seemed extremely half-baked and poorly done. Many parts of the movie just weren't believable or made little to no rational sense. I could probably talk about how bad it is for an extremely long time but the point is made, it was bad. Acting : The acting was severely lacking and did not seem natural at all. I'm certain some of this had to do with the writing because a lot of the lines in the movie were poor but the actors portrayal of their roles seemed all of the place and the emotional response that should be triggered by good acting was non-existent. Their lines seemed forced. I honestly think that a significant portion of what made the acting bad was the bad writing, but this would only cause me to want to give a 1.5/10 if possible but it's a not worth a 2/10 so it stays a 1. Plot/Time line : The plot development and time line did not seem to progress smoothly. It was as if their way of portraying the passing of time was just the main character brooding constantly. I could not tell if the movie was supposed to take place in the span of a couple days or a month or maybe it was years, probably not years but basically unable to tell. It probably did not help that I was laughing at how bad it was half the time and wondering if it could get any worse. Effects : I will just briefly touch on this. The special effects were lacking in many areas, such as the action. There was continuity issues in a least a few places. Lack of typical combat effects, blood and the like. It was a low budget film so some of that is excusable, but the basics should not have been missing. Overall : Great movie to watch for what-not-to-dos. Bad movie to watch if you want quality entertainment.

So I wasn't super excited to see this movie, mainly because it seemed like it would be rather commonplace. What I found though was that, even though the acting wasn't amazing, the story wasn't grade A, over all this was a pretty fun little scifi. It was a lot more entertaining than some of the dull big budget stuff out there today. I could certainly have enjoyed a little more budget, and perhaps a few Special Affects added in, but ultimately it is a pretty good job considering what they were working with. I would actually like to see what the director and writers could do with a bigger budget and more talent. I mean the kids did great, but someone like Depp, or Patrick Strewart

As a movie overall, I'd probably give it 5 out of 10. But I give it an extra point because what they did with what they had. It's clearly a low budget movie. Which actually had some good CGI effects/scenes. And they relied on some practical effects instead. As one that thinks Hollywood movies now a days are to much CGI and not enough story/acting. I found this a bit refreshing. It reminded me a bit of the TV show "The 100" with some "Lord of the Flies" and a dash of monsters thrown in. When you watch it, you will probably feel like you heard this story before. Now considering the Director and one of the writers, Simon Hung, has a Masters degree in Film making. I did wonder on why the writing was so cliché and predictable. Not sure if this was done on purpose or that I have seen way to many movies. The writer, director and actors are all pretty much new to making a full length movie. (a few did a couple of TV episodes and shorts). I think they all did a respectful job. But the acting was stiff in parts and overdone in others. But I wasn't expecting Oscar moments from kids in their first movie. Especially when they had no adult actors to play off of. Overall it's a pretty good attempt at making major movie. But the predictable writing, so-so acting and clearly low budget, hold the movie back. Could easily be a made for SyFy Channel movie. I look forward to seeing Simon's next attempt. As a side note, I don't know where this was filmed. But as a kid (ok, also as an adult), I would of loved to play in that scrap yard. Great location choice.

I sat through most of the movie with a look of utter disbelief of how bad this movie was! It felt like a bad film school production with amateur actors from the local drama club. To be honest, I've seen better from amateurs. The description is totally inaccurate too! The story line does not match enough of the description of the movie. Clearly this was so low budget they didn't have enough time to expand on the reasons for skyark in the first place and tried to set the premise with the description on the cover. They failed. Don't waste your time seeing this ! It was too bad to even laugh at it. This is my first ever review on IMDb .. i registered just to leave this review.. that's how much I want to tell people not to watch it!! ... unless you are a film school student and want to learn what NOT to do !

If this movie can have a title that has nothing to do with the plot, this review can do the same. The movie has absolutely nothing to do with any sort of Battle for Skyark. Instead, it's about a bunch of ragtag kids trying to survive on earth that have been kicked out of Skyark. People aged between 12-15 can probably add another 4 stars to this review, but otherwise this is pretty danged bad. I mean, I couldn't do better, and there's some cool costuming... but the script, plot, monsters and most of the acting all bring this 88 minute flick crashing down to the ground. The movie had a couple of nice moments, Taylor Coliee & Garrett Coffey performed reasonably well under the weight of a pretty poor script, and the clichés were copious but fun. But it was let down by an almost nonsensical plot, no 'battle' for Skyark to be found and hammy script. On the plus side for younger viewers, there's no blood/gore so this should be good for families with older kids (there are some scares) and there's plenty of PG action, thrills and romance to be had. Think of the movie more like an exceptionally good high school film and TV assignment and less like a professionally produced movie, and you'll get the right idea. I give this movie 2 out of 10 Broccoli Racing Cars

This movie has a great many ideas that could have been put together effectively, had the director and writers had the right goal in mind. The goal that they chose was to make a film of self-discovery, early teenage romance, and a coming-of-age story set in the midst of apocalyptic desolation. All that would have been fine except that too many necessary parts of the puzzle were not available. As always, I am here to brazenly presume that I could do better! If you're interested, I have some "fixes" I would have applied had I been involved. 1. The biggest missing piece, of course, is the acting. Coming-of-age stories are typically dramatic in the extreme, and very demanding of the actors involved. Early love, infatuation, disappointment and broken hearts, betrayal, jealousy, depression, passion, the death of loved ones.. It should have been evident from the start that all of the young people involved in this film don't have the acting chops yet to pull this off. I would instead suggest that the film be focused much more on action. Less time playing sad music and watching downcast eyes. I got REALLY tired of watching the hero periodically give up and slump to the ground in defeat, especially since he didn't seem to be trying very hard. Don't ask him to portray such feelings, instead keep him in the fray. Bring on the monsters! 2. Budget concerns. Obviously this is not a high budget feature. That's OK, they did great with what they had. I think it could have come off a little bit better if they'd put more emphasis on dirt. Quite frankly, all of the important parts of the movie were much too clean to be convincing. The actors looked freshly washed. Some of them even have hair that can't exactly keep it's look if you live in a garbage dump. I would suggest filming after they'd actually lived in the dust and sand for a few days without a shower. 3. Direction and Pacing. The story kept slowing down, the motives of the characters appeared to change constantly. Just have a goal and stick with it. The entire story appears to happen within a day! That's not enough time for the characters to grow and reach the sort of conclusions they reached. I felt as though this should have been at least a few weeks worth. Some re-writing is absolutely essential here. Character growth takes time. If you really want your story's timeline to happen quickly, leave out the drama and take my earlier suggestion to bring on the action. 4. Violence. This is conceptually a very violent movie! This movie has monsters, sword fighting, killing, it's all here. And yet blood was mysteriously absent. The fighting stunts are weak and difficult to follow, and completely nonsensical. Blood is a must, and death scenes should be on camera, not suddenly off camera and assumed. 5. Common sense. This is tough and maybe even unfair, but too many things happen that simply don't exemplify the sort of things rational people would do. The writer should have sat back, had some random people read the script and ask what impressions came to mind. People would immediately give some corrections. It can be hard for a writer to pull his head out of his work and look at it objectively, so outside input is critical. 6. Casting. There was really not much need to have so many actors in this film. Or rather, there was no need to have so many extras. Too many of the kids said and did nothing, all the way until they were removed from the story. Why not just trim the cast down to the more important characters? I'm not certain who the audience for this movie was supposed to be. Is it a family film? It has some pretty violent undertones for a family film. It's clearly a sci-fi monster film. It has all the elements of something I wouldn't want my children to watch, and yet it pulls it's punches, coming off as surgically clean. It's like a horror film with no horror.