When Science Fiction Goes Bad

Hollywood SF movies divide into two camps; the crowd-pleasingly awful and the nice tries. 'Battle:Los Angeles' is probably the worst of the bunch lately, but 'Skyline' is a close second, with its astonishingly unpleasant cast of selfish, dim, spiteful, whining, homophobic Los Angelenos, poor production design, derivative set pieces and embarrassing plot holes.

The paranoid subtext [...]