Battleship -2012-2012 Instant

After the modern Arleigh Burke-class destroyers USS John Paul Jones and USS Sampson are sunk by alien projectiles, the surviving crew—led by Hopper and a group of scrappy veterans—must find a way to fight back. Their solution? Reactivate the Missouri , a decommissioned museum ship moored at Pearl Harbor.

The genius of the adaptation—which the "2012" release date often obscures—is the visual translation of the board game. When an electromagnetic field deploys around the Hawaiian islands, isolating three U.S. Navy vessels, the abstract concept of the game’s "grid" becomes literal. The humans cannot see the enemy. They fire based on radar pings and coordinates. "C-3." "Hit." It is absurd. It is glorious. Battleship -2012-2012