Battleship (2012)

Battleship rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb5.8/10· 268K votes

Rotten Tomatoes34%

Metacritic41%

TMDb5.895/10· 6K votes

With 34% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 5.8/10 on IMDb and 41/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been modest.

About Battleship

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.

Cast of Battleship

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  Taylor Kitsch

  as Lieutenant Alex Hopper

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  Alexander Skarsgård

  as Commander Stone Hopper

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  Rihanna

  as Petty Officer Cora "Weps" Raikes

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  Brooklyn Decker

  as Sam

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  Tadanobu Asano

  as Captain Yugi Nagata

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  Hamish Linklater

  as Cal Zapata

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  Liam Neeson

  as Admiral Shane

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  Peter MacNicol

  as Secretary of Defense

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  John Tui

  as Chief Petty Officer Walter "The Beast" Lynch

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  Jesse Plemons

  as Boatswain Mate Seaman Jimmy "Ordy" Ord

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  Gregory D. Gadson

  as Lieutenant Colonel Mick Canales

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  Jerry Ferrara

  as Sampson JOOD Strodell

Battleship facts

Budget

$209M

Box office

$303M

Our take on Battleship

Peter Berg's 2012 blockbuster imagines humanity beaming a signal into space and getting an unwelcome reply: alien craft splash down off Hawaii, and an international naval coalition becomes the last line of defense. Lieutenant Alex Hopper, a weapons officer on the USS John Paul Jones, must rise to the moment while measuring himself against his brother and an admiral whose daughter he loves. Loud, glossy, and built around massive naval spectacle, this action science-fiction thriller favors hardware and explosions over character nuance. It's a fit for viewers who want big-scale military combat and effects-driven mayhem, and less so for anyone hoping for restraint or narrative surprise. As undemanding popcorn spectacle, Battleship delivers exactly what its scale promises.