The gorgeous Brooklyn Decker does an adequate job as Alex's girlfriend, Samantha, whose father just happens to be the Admiral of the fleet, and played by the great Liam Neeson in a typically authoritative performance. Alexander Skarsgard plays Alex's older brother and mentor, a Navy Captain to whom Alex feels he has been a shallow disappointment. Alex Hopper, is an empathetic hero whose struggle to overcome his personal weaknesses is ultimately played out with the fate of the world at stake when he finds himself and the crew of his Navy destroyer in the wrong place at the wrong time-and smack in the middle of an amphibious alien invasion.
Certainly, the cast seems to be having a lot of fun on screen. The extravagant special effects-merely par for the course in any modern would-be blockbuster-are one factor, but spectacular as the many explosions, gunfights, and various displays of pyrotechnics are, there's more to it than that, an overriding sense of fun that makes all the conventional weaknesses of the film meaningless. The story may not make a whole lot of sense, but it is a lot of fun. There's a certain energy and enthusiasm to the film that is infectious, even via the big screen. But somehow, despite it all, Battleship stays afloat. And I certainly don't remember any aliens in the game I had. Even the idea that the movie is based on Hasbro's classic board game of the same name is rather disingenuous: yes, there is a battleship involved in the action, almost all of which takes place at sea, but other than that any resemblance to the game we all grew up playing seems purely coincidental. The plot is incredulous and the script couldn't be riddled with more holes if you unloaded a shotgun at it. On a certain level, there's no way I can claim that Battleship is a good movie in any conventional sense.
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