Battleship 🎥 2012 Movie Info

Plot Summary

In 2005, potentially habitable “Planet G” is discovered, and in 2006, a communications array to reach any extraterrestrial life is built in Oahu. There, a slacking Alex Hopper is arrested while attempting to impress Samantha “Sam” Shane, daughter of Admiral Terrance Shane. Alex’s brother, Commander Stone Hopper, furiously forces Alex to join the U.S. Navy. Six years later, Alex is a lieutenant aboard the USS John Paul Jones and in a relationship with Sam, a physical therapist working with wounded veterans. While Stone is a model officer commanding the USS Sampson, the rebellious Alex, despite showing plenty of potential, is facing a disciplinary discharge. During the 2012 RIMPAC exercise, five alien spacecraft arrive.

Their communications ship hits a satellite and crashes through the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong, while the others plunge into the waters off the coast of Hawaii. Sampson, John Paul Jones, and Japanese destroyer JDS Myōkō discover a floating structure that generates an impenetrable force field isolating the Hawaiian Islands and the three destroyers from the rest of the world, and jamming all radar and communications inside. Three alien warships surface, and first contact devolves into a battle after the humans decide to fire a warning shot across the aliens’ bow; Myōkō is destroyed, Sampson is lost with all hands including Stone, and John Paul Jones’ command personnel are killed, leaving Alex to reluctantly take charge as the next highest-ranking sailor on board after the executive officer is also lost.

John Paul Jones disengages to recover Myōkō’s survivors, including Captain Yugi Nagata, while alien drones destroy Oahu’s military bases. Hiking near the communications array, Sam and retired US Army lieutenant colonel and double amputee Mick Canales discover the aliens’ presence. They encounter scientist Cal Zapata, who reveals the aliens have taken over the array to re-establish communications with their home planet.

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