The movie starts off with promise...
It's an alternate view of the same timeline (start of the invasion) as seen in the the 1st movie, Skyline.
It's good to see things from the perspective of the people on the ground in the heart of the city as opposed to being in the apartment complex. It even has the similar good feel of the initial movie.
The problems begin when they move to the inside of the alien ship. Things get silly and it loses its mystique. They show the actual aliens controlling the ship... then you have to believe that they could build complex technology with those cumbersome claw hands, etc... etc...
The fatal flaw that SciFi movies make all the time. Monster aliens verses believability.
It's like when you watch a serial killer thriller... and as soon as you find out who the serial killer is, it's no longer suspenseful.

Overall, it's an okay movie, but you need to turn your suspension of disbelief to maximum in the 2nd half of the movie.

Thanks to a much better cast and the fact that things actually happen over the course of most of the runtime, _Beyond Skyline_ is a far sight better than the original _Skyline_. But I cannot go so far as to say that it is, in and of itself, **good**.

_Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole._

I watched "Beyond Skyline" because I happened to see a trailer with a couple of large alien beasties fighting among some ancient temples. This movie was worth watching for that battle, even though it's brief. I'm a giant monster fan, so that made this required viewing.

The rest of the movie contained characters behaving in ridiculous fashion given the Earth is being invaded by an alien force. Everyone in the movie has personal problems that have zero impact on anything at all. Luckily I watched for the aliens and monsters.

There isn't much of a story but there's a lot of martial arts fighting that I didn't know if it was being executed well or not. It seemed like humans kicked alien ass relatively easily. I can't remember why the aliens were engaging in hand-to-hand combat in the first place. It seemed like they had already nailed the process of invasion when they were sucking people up into their mother ship like ants into a vacuum cleaner.

The special effects were okay. Not "The Asylum" level bad, but not exactly Star Wars". If you can watch this on your "free" subscription service, go nuts. Otherwise you could skip it and you'd be none the worse.