Being a veteran, I won't bore you with the many glaring military technical errors in this "work." It was simply atrocious, but that was the least of the troubles of this movie.While the premise of the movie was worthy to be told: aliens invading, and a military response, all the players and the rest of the filming crew couldn't make it a memorable flick.I wonder if veteran actors Carl Weathers and Mario Van Peebles were desperate for work that they signed for this? I've seen their excellent work in the past and they couldn't make this a watchable fare.The battleship USS North Carolina museum stood in for the USS Iowa. While they were no doubt compensated for the use of their museum, I would be embarrassed to bring up the subject of this movie!I have no idea why this work was even made; maybe to try to cash in on its high budget, similarly themed competitor, "Battleship"; or someone just wanted to burn what little money they had to make a movie; but I do know that there was no effort to make this anything special and it showed.

Wow, the impossible has happened. The Syfy Channel has run out of infomercials. That's the only possible explanation I can think of for running this movie. And frankly, most infomercials would have been more enjoyable.Mario Van Peebles phones in another role. Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head have more on screen chemistry than the commander and his love interest. The rest of the cast is completely forgettable. I've seen better acting in most commercials. It must have taken 2 weeks to shoot this movie, because so many scenes were shown repeatedly. The special effects look like they were whipped up by a teenager for his film class. Correct that, his CGI would have been better.On the plus side, there's one reason to watch this movie: for laughs because it's so bad.

I wish there was an option to rate this move a 0. What a horrible movie, It looks like those low budget movies. Terrible acting, special effects are terrible, storyline poor. My advice watch the movie if u don't have anything better to do. I'm still shocked and trying to get over how a bad movie this is. Worst movie I have watched in a long time.I could do better special effects than they did on my computer, I cannot blv what a load of crap this is. Wasted my time watching this movie that's for sure. Warning stay away from this movie!!!!!!!!!!!!

The actual storyline for American Warships was marginally better than the Hollywood equivalent, Battleships.The acting, for the most part was terrible, but this only meant that the half decent actors looked awesome. Carl Weathers stars as a military general and puts in a decent performance, despite his only real sparring partner being less than capable.All in all, I have seen much worse, and this didn't mess about with any of the fluff of getting to know the characters, and just got straight to blowing stuff up.Best line from the movie comes from Mario Van Peebles character - "You're not going to sink my Battleship!" - Brilliant.I recon a solid 5/10 movie. Not brilliant but actually not bad either.