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.
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Credits: TheMovieDb.

Film Cast:

• Lieutenant Alex Hopper: Taylor Kitsch
• Captain Yugi Nagata: Tadanobu Asano
• Petty Officer Cora ‘Weps’ Raikes: Rihanna
• Sam: Brooklyn Decker
• Lieutenant Colonel Mick Canales: Gregory D. Gadson
• Cal Zapata: Hamish Linklater
• Admiral Shane: Liam Neeson
• Commander Stone Hopper: Alexander Skarsgård
• Sampson JOOD Strodell: Jerry Ferrara
• Boatswain Mate Seaman Jimmy “Ordy” Ord: Jesse Plemons
• Chief Petty Officer Walter “The Beast” Lynch: John Tui
• NASA Director: David Jensen
• JPJ 2nd Gunner: Peter Berg
• Dr. Nogrady: Adam Godley
• Captain Browley: Rico McClinton
• Chief Engineer Hiroki: Joji Yoshida
• JPJ OOD: Stephen Bishop
• JPJ Fireman: Austin Naulty
• JPJ Scat: James Rawlings
• Electronic Warfare Supervisor: Dustin J. Reno
• Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff: Rick Hoffman
• Air Force Chief of Staff: Gary Grubbs
• Watch Officer: Rami Malek
• Secretary of Defense: Peter MacNicol
• Bartender: Louis Lombardi
• JPJ Sailor: Jordan Kirkwood
• CIC Watch Supervisor: Doug Penty
• CIC Gunner: Carson Aune
• Combat Systems Coordinator: Josh Pence
• JPJ Port Gunner: Lloyd Pitts
• British Newscaster: Michelle Arthur
• Spanish Newscaster: Natalia Castellanos
• Japanese Newscaster: Leni Ito
• Jackie Johnson: Jackie Johnson
• Cal’s Female Colleague: Kerry Cahill
• Old Salt: Norman Vincent McLafferty
• JPJ XO Mullenaro: Dante Jimenez
• JPJ Helmsman: Daven Arce
• JPJ Starboard Gunner: Ralph Richardson
• JPJ BMOW: Biunca Love
• Regent Sea Commander: Kyle Clements
• Myoko XO: Yutaka Takeuchi
• JPJ Sailor: John A Weaver
• Sampson OOD: Dane Justman
• Sampson XO: Drew Rausch
• Marine Commandant: Bill Stinchcomb
• Angus: John Bell
• Naval Officer: Arlene Newman
• Tourist Guide: George O’Hanlon Jr.
• American Newscaster: Jay Jackson
• JPL Controller: Joe Chrest
• Japanese Sailor (uncredited): Ed Moy

Film Crew:

• Editor: Paul Rubell
• Stunts: Sala Baker
• Makeup Department Head: Jeff Dawn
• Producer: Duncan Henderson
• Production Design: Neil Spisak
• Conceptual Illustrator: Oliver Scholl
• Sound Designer: Dan Yale
• Art Direction: William Ladd Skinner
• Costume Design: Louise Mingenbach
• Set Costumer: Mitzi Haralson
• Color Timer: Jim Passon
• Director of Photography: Tobias A. Schliessler
• Original Music Composer: Steve Jablonsky
• Editor: Colby Parker Jr.
• Producer: Scott Stuber
• Producer: Brian Goldner
• Casting: Linda Lowy
• Costume Design: Kimberly A. Tillman
• Second Unit Director of Photography: Larry Blanford
• Set Decoration: Larry Dias
• Makeup Artist: Steve LaPorte
• Makeup Artist: Cheri Minns
• Hairstylist: Mary L. Mastro
• Producer: Peter Berg
• Producer: Sarah Aubrey
• ADR Recordist: David Lucarelli
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Paul Massey
• ADR Mixer: Charleen Richards
• ADR Voice Casting: Caitlin McKenna
• Colorist: Stefan Sonnenfeld
• Orchestrator: Kevin Kaska
• Casting: John Brace
• ADR Editor: G.W. Brown
• Dolly Grip: Jeff ‘Moose’ Howery
• Unit Publicist: Ernie Malik
• Makeup Department Head: Allan A. Apone
• Screenplay: Erich Hoeber
• Screenplay: Jon Hoeber
• First Assistant Director: Eric Heffron
• Art Direction: Scott P. Murphy
• Transportation Coordinator: Aaron Skalka
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Beau Borders
• Producer: Bennett Schneir
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Andy Koyama
• Stunt Coordinator: Kevin Scott
• Editor: Billy Rich
• First Assistant Editor: Robert Malina
• Conceptual Illustrator: Harald Belker
• Storyboard Artist: David J. Negron Jr.
• Set Designer: Darrell L. Wight
• Art Direction: Aaron Haye
• Casting: Jamie Castro
• Visual Effects Editor: Austin Basile
• Set Designer: Jann K. Engel
• Costume Supervisor: Mitchell Ray Kenney
• Best Boy Grip: Steve Graves
• Seamstress: Suzanne M.B. Chambliss
• Additional Casting: Judith Bouley
• Electrician: David McGrory
• Armorer: Andrew Petrotta
• Conceptual Illustrator: George Hull
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Nathan McGuinness
• Additional Casting: Meagan Lewis
• Foley Artist: John Sievert
• Foley Mixer: Randy Wilson
• Visual Effects Art Director: Aaron McBride
• Camera Operator: Chris Moseley
• Music Editor: Sam Zeines
• Additional Casting: Katie Doyle
• Conceptual Illustrator: Jeff Julian
• Set Costumer: Corey Bronson
• Assistant Art Director: Mark Robert Taylor
• Gaffer: Bob E. Krattiger
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Danielle Plantec
• Sculptor: Chris Hopkins
• Script Supervisor: Julie Pitkanen
• Set Designer: Robert Andrew Johnson
• Boom Operator: Jeffrey A. Humphreys
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Pablo Helman
• Location Manager: Michael John Meehan
• Additional Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Rick Kline
• Still Photographer: Frank Masi
• Camera Operator: Maurice K. McGuire
• Music Editor: Jim Schultz
• Visual Effects Producer: Jeanmarie King
• Sound Designer: Barbara Delpuech
• Art Department Coordinator: Theresa Greene
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Frank A. Montaño
• Dialect Coach: Brian C. Hirono
• Visual Effects Producer: David Sanger
• Camera Operator: Robby Baumgartner
• Underwater Director of Photography: Pete Romano
• Aerial Director of Photography: Hans Bjerno
• CG Supervisor: Chad Wiebe
• Foley Artist: Stefan Fraticelli
• Camera Operator: Patrick B. O’Brien
• Sound Designer: Christopher Scarabosio
• Steadicam Operator: Chris Haarhoff
• Property Master: Douglas Fox
• Costume Design: Roberto Craciunica
• Hairstylist: Mahealani Diego
• Hairstylist: Yolanda Mercadel
• Production Supervisor: Candice D. Campos
• Production Supervisor: Renee Confair
• Production Manager: Wendy Wong
• Art Department Coordinator: Christine Youngstrom
• Construction Coordinator: Robert A. Blackburn
• Scenic Artist: Andrew M. Casbon III
• Leadman: Brett C. Smith
• Leadman: Edward J. Protiva
• ADR Editor: Darren King
• Additional Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Gregory King
• Sound Designer: Yann Delpuech
• Sound Designer: Shaughnessy Hare
• Sound Designer: Mike McKone
• ADR Editor: Joel Shryack
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Grady Cofer
• Visual Effects Editor: Joseph Derrico III
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Chris Harvey
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Winston Helgason
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Pete Jopling
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Paul Mitchell
• Visual Effects Editor: Xinyi Puah
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Stephan Trojansky
• Visual Effects Producer: Dominic Sidoli
• Visual Effects Editor: Jody Rogers
• Visual Effects Producer: Rick Lupton
• Visual Effects Producer: Colleen Jenkinson
• Visual Effects Producer: Robert E. Evans
• Visual Effects Producer: Kevin Elam
• Camera Operator: Don King
• Camera Operator: Duane Manwiller
• Best Boy Electric: Frank R. Jimenez Jr.
• Video Assist Operator: Paul Murphey
• Cableman: Richard O’Linke Jr.
• Set Costumer: Maryann Dearmore
• Set Costumer: Daniel Dirks
• Set Costumer: Alema K. Ryder
• Digital Intermediate Producer: Erik Rogers
• Music Editor: Alex Gibson
• Location Manager: Laura Sode-Matteson
• Location Manager: George Wong
• First Assistant Editor: Jason Gaudio
• Gaffer: Dan Riffel
• ADR Mixer: Brian Slack
• Second Assistant “C” Camera: Jeff Taylor
• Rigging Gaffer: Dennis J. Lootens
• Production Controller: Allen E. Taylor
• CG Supervisor: Andy Lesniak
• CG Supervisor: Robert Weaver
• Property Master: Mychael Bates
• Digital Imaging Technician: Tim Nagasawa
• Electrician: Tim Stratton
• Electrician: Mikey Jechort
• Script Supervisor: Rebecca Boyle
• CG Supervisor: Michael Blackbourn
• Compositing Supervisor: Stephen Pepper
• Set Dresser: Antonio Andraus
• CG Supervisor: Justin Mitchell
• Digital Effects Supervisor: Earl A. Hibbert
• Animation: Travis Tohill
• Compositing Supervisor: Stefano Trivelli
• Lead Animator: Rick O’Connor
• Construction Foreman: William H. Phen Jr.
• Painter: Ben Woodworth
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Rene Toye
• BTS Photographer: Jason Marvel
• Animation: Jeremy Stewart
• Costumer: Heather Rae Miller
• First Assistant Editor: Gabriel Fleming
• Rigging Grip: Rob Skuse
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Catherine Liu
• Visual Effects Editor: Greg Hyman
• First Assistant “C” Camera: Jeffrey S. Lorenz
• Rigging Grip: Rell Putt
• First Assistant “A” Camera: Jimmy E. Jensen
• Lead Animator: Jean-Denis Haas
• Key Rigging Grip: Kim Heath
• Costumer: Sarah P. Koeppe
• Sound Mixer: Paul Ledford
• Assistant Sound Editor: Jeffrey Dyal
• First Assistant “C” Camera: Ian Clampett
• Sequence Supervisor: David Marsh
• Standby Painter: Jesse Valdez
• Key Grip: Michael Anderson
• Conceptual Illustrator: Tani Kunitake
• First Assistant Editor: Melissa Lawson Cheung
• Key Costumer: Dallas D. Dornan
• Electrician: Danielle Greenup
• Lighting Artist: Christopher Ahrens
• Compositing Supervisor: Marshall Richard Krasser
• Compositing Supervisor: Michael Conte
• Standby Painter: Vinson Jae
• Boom Operator: Charles J. Bond
• Set Costumer: Cory Ching
• First Assistant “B” Camera: Louie DeMarco
• Key Costumer: Amy Arnold
• First Assistant Director: Michael J. Moore
• Marine Coordinator: Matthew H. O’Connor
• Dolly Grip: Chris Gordon
• Dolly Grip: Mike Schwake
• Dolly Grip: Paul V. Perkins
• Second Assistant Director: Richard Oswald
• Second Assistant “A” Camera: Miguel Pask
• Construction Buyer: Elvin Yoshida
• Assistant Sound Editor: E. Niles Klein
• Key Grip: Doug Cowden
• Production Coordinator: Michael A. Galasso
• Libra Head Technician: Jon Philion
• Electrician: Mike Gerzevitz
• Ager/Dyer: Michele Flynn
• First Assistant “A” Camera: Todd Schlopy
• Production Coordinator: Nancy Honeycutt
• Dolly Grip: Victor A. Shelehov
• Set Costumer: Charles W. Kaeo
• Rigging Grip: Mike Nami Jr.
• Electrician: Justin Wright
• First Assistant Editor: Chi-Yoon Chung
• Best Boy Grip: Gerald Autin
• Set Decorating Coordinator: Rachel Nowik
• Dolly Grip: Jeremy Webre
• Foley Mixer: Trent Richmond
• Pre-Visualization Supervisor: Joshua Wassung
• Set Dresser: Daniel Coulthard
• Concept Artist: Christian Pearce
• Conceptual Illustrator: Steve Jung
• CG Supervisor: Zai Ortiz
• Rigging Grip: Jeremy Selsor
• Assistant Property Master: Michael P. Sweeney
• First Assistant “D” Camera: David Homcy
• Conceptual Illustrator: Carlos Huante
• Dolly Grip: Bryan Ashford
• Epk Producer: Brandon Carroll
• Second Assistant “A” Camera: Brent Egan
• Storyboard Artist: Richard Bennett
• Electrician: Steve Zeiger
• Graphic Designer: Andrew Campbell
• Travel Coordinator: Mimi N. McGreal
• Visual Effects Production Assistant: Courteney Smith
• Foley Mixer: Ron Mellegers
• Rigging Grip: Gary Cadow
• Generator Operator: Mark Haas
• Extras Casting: Robin Batherson
• Key Costumer: Jose S. Hernandez
• Lead Animator: John Zdankiewicz
• Lead Animator: Maia Kayser
• Production Coordinator: Karla Torres
• Storyboard Artist: Tracey Wilson
• Lighting Artist: Jason Gross
• Set Dresser: George Hess
• Art Department Assistant: Dorothy Street
• Production Accountant: Cheri Hall
• Electrician: Russell Beard
• Lighting Artist: Blair Werschler
• Set Dresser: Marcus Epps
• Libra Head Technician: Chris Bangma
• Rigging Grip: Michael Nissen
• Visual Effects Coordinator: C. Alexander Sears
• Production Secretary: Drew Barnett-Hamilton
• First Assistant “B” Camera: Tony Nagy
• Second Assistant “B” Camera: Rylan Akama
• Second Assistant “C” Camera: Brian Matsumura
• Second Assistant “B” Camera: Tony Muller
• Best Boy Grip: Walter Royle
• Best Boy Electric: James Hatridge
• Electrician: Dave Lujan
• Second Assistant “B” Camera: Scott Whitbread
• Set Dresser: Joe Pfaltzgraf
• Second Assistant “C” Camera: Eric Wheeler
• Digital Imaging Technician: Maninder K. Saini
• Production Secretary: David Becker
• Art Department Assistant: Kristopher Gifford
• CG Supervisor: Paul Ghezzo
• Set Dresser: Benton E. Tedlie
• Propmaker: Derick Broderman
• Set Dresser: Gordon Thomas
• Assistant Camera: Bobby Davison
• Electrician: Jason Lamport
• Electrician: Jacob Borck
• Electrician: Ralph Walters
• Libra Head Technician: Jason Hibarger
• Rigging Grip: Bridget Da Gama
• Rigging Grip: Jonathan Plaeger
• Rigging Grip: Daniel Strong
• Rigging Grip: Curt Burlin
• Rigging Grip: James J. Hughes
• Rigging Grip: James W. Larkin III
• Techno Crane Operator: Art Villasenor
• Costume Assistant: Max Juette
• Costume Assistant: Patrick Byrnes
• Costumer: Robyn Zucker
• Art Department Assistant: Sean Frohling
• Art Department Assistant: Austin Lawrence
• Art Department Assistant: Christopher Poveromo
• Art Department Assistant: Michael Shapiro
• Conceptual Illustrator: Josh Nizzi
• Graphic Designer: Roger Johnson
• Propmaker: Edward Medeiros Jr.
• Set Dresser: K. Wing Chin
• Set Dresser: Ron Cookson
• Set Dresser: Daniel Hamilton
• Set Dresser: Jana Treadwell
• Set Dresser: Joe Viau
• Set Dresser: Karl Weaver
• Set Dresser: Daniel A. Maes
• Set Dresser: Michael C. Magno
• Set Dresser: Rick Reeder
• Swing: Hugh England
• Swing: Tom Penny
• Swing: Mike Peters
• CG Supervisor: Willi Geiger
• Lighting Artist: Ross Wallis
• Matte Painter: Kalene Dunsmoor
• Pre-Visualization Supervisor: Barry Howell
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Adam J. Cohn
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Zachary Smith
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Wyatt Hannon
• Boom Operator: Daniel R. Garab
• Armorer: Scot A. McKay
• Production Secretary: Evan Johnson

Movie Reviews:

• John Chard: It rhymes with ship!

  Actually that’s a little unfair, for those after a two hour plus movie of noise and robotic like destruction, then this has a modicum of popcorn frivolity about it. But it’s all so vacuous, any semblance of a story is given over for a chance to show some Transformers effects work, the human characters constantly an afterthought as they play second fiddle to another CGI action scene. It feels like an extended toy advertisement, the acting is sub-standard and the editing – appropriately enough for the film’s setting – is akin to a bout of sea sickness. The action sequences all carry a familiarity about them, while like their human counterparts, the alien foe here are devoid of any rhyme or reason as to their motive and being.

  Cash infused metallic porn at its most tiresome. 5/10

• Per Gunnar Jonsson: I have to say that I enjoyed this movie. The visual effects are great, the alien designs are interesting and there’s lots of explosive hardware flying around. Although not exactly a very logical/practical design I did like the cool rolling “balls” of destruction that the aliens where using. Seeing the “Mighty Mo” in action was of course an additional plus. It’s really a shame that these magnificent floating fortresses have become obsolete.

  However, the enjoyment brought by this movie was almost purely one of visual effects. Well, I generally like Liam Neeson as well but not much else in this movie was of any higher standards. The story is the usual Hollywood stuff. The holes in the logic are big enough to drive, well, a battleship through. For instance, the aliens can come from far away, navigate between the stars, but they cannot avoid accidentally colliding with a satellite in earth orbit? Come on.

  It unfortunately becomes even worse when they decide to fire up the Missouri. I could live with the fact that there’s no way that a handful of veterans could have gotten that ship into running state. I could even live with the fact that the film ignores that it would take days to fire the ship up from cold storage even under optimal circumstances and with a full crew. But what really got me pissed off is when they drop the anchor to make a “hand break turn” and turn the ship around on a dime actually sliding the ship on the water. What the fuck !!!

  How utterly ignorant, dumb, stupid can you become as a Hollywood producer/scriptwriter/director? I’m actually being kind to these morons now because if the people that wrote that scene is not total idiots then they are assuming that the audience are such idiots which would be even worse.

  That part alone dropped it two stars for me. I still gave it 6 out of 10 because I enjoyed the visual effects and the sea battles so much.