Soon, the two men and a few fellow train riders (including Bojana Novakovic’s Audrey, the train conductor) have escaped the tunnels only to be hauled up into the mothership themselves. There, we soon learn, their brains are harvested to somehow animate the bodies of individual soldiers in the alien army. Mark and son Trent (Jonny Weston) are trapped on the Metro when a giant alien mothership attacks the city, hypnotizing Angelenos with some kind of blue ray and sucking them up into the sky. Grillo (who had a more three-dimensional toplining role in Netflix’s recent Wheelman) plays Mark, an LAPD cop on leave after his wife’s death. While O’Donnell would have been smart to hire a screenwriter instead of doing double-duty behind the scenes, the fanboy crowd won’t complain too loudly with one of their favorite character actors, Frank Grillo, kicking extraterrestrial ass in a space opera that could plausibly launch a very niche franchise. With strong effects work belying what was surely a tiny budget, Liam O’Donnell’s Beyond Skyline finds the first-time director relying on his experience in VFX departments of much bigger Hollywood productions.
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