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movie review - Beyond Skyline

the journal of Michael Werneburg

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Kokubunji, 2020.11.17

This is a fun Sci-Fi flick about a cop whose son is becoming a petty crook. In an effort to track the boy down one night, he discovers that an alien invasion is underway. Impossibly, he decides to and then actually boards the alien craft. During his attempt to liberate his son while in the ship, it travels to Asia and an entire new sequence begins.

The story is pretty different from the usual alien invasion fare and while it certainly has its rough edges I enjoyed the whole.

Recommended. For one of those nights when you need some escapism.

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It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.

—Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.