Skyline and Unknown. Watched both movies back to back.
Reviews (spoilers follow!)
Skyline:
It had a real promising start and…oh, fuck, is that Turk from Scrubs? So, anyway, bright blue fireballs descend upon the city. Looking at the light causes your eyes to go milky and your skin to break out in ugly red patches. You are drawn towards the light and you are snatched away. Then the blue fireballs reascend. Then redescend the next morning followed by giant spacecraft. Aliens. As the main characters try to figure out what’s going on, scout ships that look like a cross between Autobots and squid snatch up remaining people. The main characters stumble about trying to figure out how to proceed and, one by one, they’re snatched away. They try to drive to a neighboring marina under the assumption that they’d be safe out in the water, but…yoink! A giant alien thing smashes Turk’s car and, after brief gunshots, Turk is gone. As the rest of the crew panic as the scout ships are now searching the building for the remaining people, more of the group are snatched away. Finally, we’re down to two people. The military is fighting back but they’re no match for the aliens. And then, inexplicably, the two last people allow themselves to be abducted. The male lead is separated from the female lead (who happens to be in the early stages of pregnancy) and…well…has his brain removed. The brain is consumed by an alien and the alien suddenly is the man. He finds the woman who had been deposited in some kind of grimy holding cell with other pregnant women, fights aliens and, just when I think we’re finally going to find out what the hell’s going on…the credits roll. WHAT. THE. FUCK?! No resolution. No motivation for the aliens. Just…what? Just…WHAT?! What did I just watch?!
Unknown:
Liam Neeson is Dr Martin Harris and is in Berlin to meet with Professor Bressler whom is a colleague of his. Martin left his briefcase at the airport and goes to return to get it. On the way, the taxi crashes and goes off a bridge into a river. Martin wakes up 4 days later from a coma with partial amnesia. No one knows who he is; his identification is missing. He goes to find his wife with whom he arrived at the hotel. He finds her at a party with another man claiming to be Dr Martin Harris. She insist that she doesn’t know Liam Neeson’s Martin. As Martin A (Liam Neeson) tries to piece together what’s going on, he uncovers, with the reluctant help of the taxi driver Gina, that…he was a trained assassin hired to plant and blow up a bomb in a hotel with a visiting dignitary. As Martin A finds out, he is not Martin Harris and neither is Martin B (Aidan Quinn). The accident has caused Martin A to believe his own cover story and Martin B was there to take his place to ensure the bomb goes off. It is up to Martin A and Gina to stop the plot and save the dignitary. However, the dignitary is not the target, it is Bressler, who had created a genetically modified corn that could grow anywhere. A group of assassins (Martin B) and his “wife” (who wasn’t his wife) are foiled when Martin A finally gets the authorities to listen and evacuate the hotel. The “wife” is killed when she tries to disarm the bomb (she doesn’t want to be connected with an explosion that is no longer necessary) and, after a physical altercation, Martin A kills Martin B. Martin A helps Gina start a new life (and new identity) away from all of this.
Out of the two movies, Unknown is at least coherent and understandable and, therefore, the superior movie, but…enh…I’ve seen better movies. 