Beyond Skyline Dvd

Beyond Skyline is a 2017 American science fiction action film directed by Liam O’Donnell. It stars Frank Grillo, Bojana Novakovic, Iko Uwais, Callan Mulvey, Yayan Ruhian, Pamelyn Chee, Betty Gabriel, and Antonio Fargas. It is a direct sequel to the 2010 film Skyline, picking up where the first film left off.

The film was released on December 15, 2017 in the United States by Vertical Entertainment. Unlike its critically panned predecessor, Beyond Skyline received mixed reviews, with several critics calling it an improvement over the original. A third and final film Skylines, again directed by O’Donnell and produced by the Strause brothers, is set for release in 2020.

Plot

Taking place at the same time of Skyline, Mark Corley, a Los Angeles police detective, helps his estranged son, Trent, out of jail just as an alien invasion begins. The entire population of the city is sucked into various spaceships by a blue light. Mark leads a group of surviving humans through underground subway tunnels to escape, though most of the humans are killed or abducted, one by one. The survivors – Mark, Trent, transit operator Audrey, and a homeless man known only as “Sarge”, who is immune to the blue light due to his blindness – escape to the marina following the city’s nuclear destruction, only to be abducted into the alien flagship by a towering alien tanker.

On board the spaceship, Mark tries to find his son and storms his way into various chambers, where he meets up with survivor Elaine and her transformed boyfriend Jarrod (from the first film). Elaine explains that Jarrod retained control of his mind despite being transformed into a bio-mechanical alien soldier. Though Elaine is three months pregnant, her pregnancy has accelerated and she gives birth to a daughter. Elaine dies during the delivery, and Mark and Jarrod team up to destroy the alien ship by setting alien explosives inside the ship’s control systems. When Jarrod is killed fighting the alien leader, Mark rescues Audrey but is too late to save his son. Trent has his brain taken and placed in another alien bio-mechanical machine creature. Sarge is badly wounded when he defends the baby from an alien. The dying Jarrod destroys the ship, which crashes in rural Laos. Mark, Audrey, Sarge and the baby escape from the spaceship which starts to repair itself. Sarge dies from his wounds shortly after the group meets Sua and his sister Kanya who belong to a drug cartel and fight against both aliens and local rogue ex-policemen bandits.

As they trek through the jungle, the group discovers that the human baby grows at an accelerated rate into a three-year-old in just one day. Sua and Kanya lead Mark, Audrey, and the baby to a hidden human resistance hideout and drug processing facility located in local ruins. There, Harper, a medical officer and former drug chemist, examines the baby girl and learns about her unique DNA. Harper believes her blood may be the key to defeating the aliens due to her evolving DNA. Using the child’s blood and recovered alien technology, Harper develops a serum he believes will free the bio-mechanical soldiers from alien control and restore their human personality. Though Sua insists on killing all the bio-mechanical soldiers, Mark convinces Sua to allow him to save Trent.

While on a patrol, Kanya encounters a four-legged tanker alien and sacrifices herself by luring it into an old minefield left over from the Vietnam war. Though she destroys it, she unwittingly gives away their location to the alien ships searching for the human newborn child. They converge on the human base. During the resulting battle between the aliens and the humans, several members of the human resistance, including Harper, are killed. Mark enters a grounded alien ship, where he uses Harper’s serum to turn the mind-controlling blue light into a red light that frees the mind-controlled bio-mechanical soldiers. Before he can deploy it, the alien leader and his horde of alien warriors attacks the human resistance and disables the light. Trent, his mind restored after encountering his father, fights back inside a giant alien tanker. While the alien leader is busy fighting Trent, the child fixes and deploys the red light, freeing the bio-mechanical soldiers, and Trent defeats the alien leader. With Earth saved, Audrey names the girl Rose after Mark’s deceased wife.

Ten years later, Rose, now a fully-grown adult, has taken control of an alien ship, and Trent is her second-in-command. Rose leads freed bio-mechanical soldiers and humans in an assault on the other alien ships around the Moon, including the mothership.

Cast

Frank Grillo as Mark Corley, a detective and a father
Bojana Novakovic as Audrey, an LA transit worker
Jonny Weston as Trent Corley, Mark’s estranged son
Callan Mulvey as Harper, a doctor of the human resistance
Antonio Fargas as Sarge, a blind homeless man
Yayan Ruhian[5] as The Chief, a militia leader
Pamelyn Chee as Kanya, the sister of Sua
Jacob Vargas as Garcia, a police officer and friend of Mark
Iko Uwais as Sua, the leader of an underground human resistance
Lindsey Morgan as Cpt. Rose, leader of the resistance
Samantha Jean as Elaine, a captive woman and the mother of Rose (originally played by Scottie Thompson in the previous Skyline film)
Betty Gabriel as Jones, an LA cop
Tony Black as Jarrod in a flashback. (originally played by Eric Balfour in the previous Skyline film)