Netflix’s sci-fi action blockbuster is more fun than Rotten Tomatoes leads you to believe

Battleship is directed by Peter Berg from a screenplay by Jon and Erich Hoeber and features an impressive cast that includes Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgard, Brooklyn Decker, Tadanobu Asano, Hamish Linklater, Liam Neeson and Rihanna in her feature film debut. The film also contains a few small roles for Rami Malek and Jesse Plemons before they broke into the mainstream.

We are in the early 2010s, Battleship takes a much more serious approach to adapting a board game than one might expect in the 2020s, or any Netflix original for that matter.