This is elevated SyFy channel shit!

It's every Hollywood alien invasion/Kaiju/disaster movie cliche, but with cheap production values. Aliens, Independence Day, Godzilla 1998, War of the Worlds, Cloverfield, District 9, you name it, Skyline apes it. Michael Bay's Transformers movies (which is one of the many things Skyline is ripping off) are dumb but at least they look polished. The actors are D-listers at best and unknown amateurs at worst, so the hammy acting is not embarrassing for anyone, and…

I was gonna rate this much higher, but I gotta be honest, the nostalgia didn't work this time around. The critics are right on this one, unfortunately. If anyone was gonna give this a glowing review, it was gonna be me the Raimi fan!

This movie doesn't have a story, it is a set of ideas manifesting in scenes conveniently stitched together under the guise of a narrative. Nothing is confusing yet everything holds up with weak glue. There's a…