If you have seen Independence Day, or Matrix, you will find certain similarities in the fx of Skyline (big mothership and sentinels, just to name two right off the bat). Other than that, weak - weak acting, even weaker dialogues, and a general sense of doom at the end. At least, in ID4 and Matrix, we won, well, sort of; we beat the bad guys and happines ensued. In Sentinel, [spoilers past this point!!!], everybody dies, and those who live, will die soon enough from the looks of it. On IMDB, some religious nut compares this to the "rapture" (IMDB.com - Skyline - comments section at bottom of movie page) but, since there is no proof of that either, I think we're safe.
I watched Sentinel in my usual "fast forward" mode (watch 2 minutes-skip 8). That is how I watch any new movies on my puter, to see if they are actually worth bothering to be watched on a big(ger) screen. Well, this one is not. I liked Eric Balfour in Six Feet Under, although he was just a bit "overdone" there but still fairly believable. I think, Eric can do much better than Skyline. Other actors did what they could with their scripts, even Brittany Daniel who played the bitchy blonde Candice; too bad she seems to be typecast as "snobbish and conniving and always gets what she wants" just like in SVH.
I gave Skyline 2 ouf of 10 stars, for "trying".
