Battleship was just one loud and empty vessel. Explosions kept happening throughout the movie but there wasn't any explanation as to why things kept happening.
I wouldn't blame Peter Berg because I thought the direction was good, considering what he had to work with. I didn't think it could get any better.
The real problem lied with the writing. There was absolutely no story in the first three quarters of the movie. It was just action sequences after action sequences, explosions after explosions. The sense of urgency was there but to what end, the story didn't reveal until it was too late to keep my interest level. Plus the first half hour was a total bore.
I thought the story tried to do too much too. Especially with the sub-plot involving Brooklyn Decker and Hamish Linklater.
However, the acting was actually quite decent, even for Rihanna. And Jesse Plemons had some shining moments too.
But what I couldn't get over was how a lot of things didn't make sense for me. The aliens with their technology that could create a massive dome-shaped force field, with their spacecraft that had multiple gun turrets and canons, with hulls that could - a la Transformers - change shapes; and in the very end (I want to say spoiler alert, but really don't think it makes a difference), was destroyed from a few cannons from a very, very old Battleship. Someone even mentioned in the movie that it belonged in a muzium. And yet, an alien mothership was destroyed by it.
As for the aliens that came on foot, my only reasoning was that all of them that came out were scientists or engineers and none of them were warriors. Because none of them weilded any weapons that would actually shoot something! It's just ridiculous.
So while I don't really want to blame the writers because they had an idea but the direction they took it didn't work, this still boiled down to very bad writing.
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