Movies that feel likeBattleship (2012)

Name: Battleship
Director: Peter Berg
Genre: thriller, action, adventure, science fiction
Released: 2012

When mankind beams a radio signal into space, a reply comes from ‘Planet G’, in the form of several alien crafts that splash down in the waters off Hawaii. Lieutenant Alex Hopper is a weapons officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones, part of an international naval coalition which becomes the world's last hope for survival as they engage the hostile alien force of unimaginable strength. While taking on the invaders, Hopper must also try to live up to the potential that his brother, and his fiancée's father—an Admiral—expect of him.

If you loved Battleship, the closest films we have are Ender's Game (2013), Ra.One (2011) and Superman Returns (2006). All three share Battleship's kinetic and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Blue Beetle (2023).

🍅 33% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Peter Bergtense kinetic epic cerebral

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Battleship Potemkin (1925)

Ender's Game

2013 · dir. Gavin Hood

🍅 63%★ 6.6science fiction · action · adventure

The same preoccupation in both: fight

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Based on the classic novel by Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game is the story of the Earth's most gifted children training to defend their homeplanet in the space wars of the future.

Ra.One

2011 · dir. Anubhav Sinha

🍅 62%★ 5adventure · action · science fiction

Both land momentum and scale at once

The difference: Easier on the tension than Battleship

When the titular antagonist of an action game takes on physical form, it's up to the game's less powerful protagonist to save the world.

Superman Returns

2006 · dir. Bryan Singer

🍅 72%★ 6.1science fiction · action · adventureMax

Cerebral action in both cases

Superman returns to discover his 5-year absence has allowed Lex Luthor to walk free, and that those he was closest to felt abandoned and have moved on. Luthor plots his ultimate revenge that could see millions killed and change the face of the planet forever, as well as ridding himself of the Man of Steel.

Predators

2010 · dir. Nimród Antal

🍅 66%★ 6.4science fiction · action · thriller

Thriller built on tension, twice over

A group of cold-blooded killers find themselves trapped on an alien planet to be hunted by extraterrestrial Predators.

Blue Beetle

2023 · dir. Ángel Manuel Soto

🍅 78%★ 5.9action · science fiction · adventureMax

Both lean on momentum more than on adventure

Recent college grad Jaime Reyes returns home full of aspirations for his future, only to find that home is not quite as he left it. As he searches to find his purpose in the world, fate intervenes when Jaime unexpectedly finds himself in possession of an ancient relic of alien biotechnology: the Scarab.

Bumblebee

2018 · dir. Travis Knight

🍅 91%★ 6.7action · adventure · science fictionParamount+

Epic science fiction, and it commits to that

On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Charlie, on the cusp of turning 18 and trying to find her place in the world, discovers Bumblebee, battle-scarred and broken. When Charlie revives him, she quickly learns this is no ordinary yellow VW bug.

Push

2009 · dir. Paul McGuigan

🍅 23%★ 6.1science fiction · action · adventure

Both rooted in Hong Kong

After his father, an assassin, is brutally murdered, Nick Gant vows revenge on Division, the covert government agency that dabbles in psychic warfare and experimental drugs. Hiding in Hong Kong's underworld, Nick assembles a band of rogue psychics dedicated to destroying Division. Together with Cassie, a teenage clairvoyant, Nick goes in search of a missing girl and a stolen suitcase that could be the key to accomplishing their mutual goal.

Bleeding Steel

2017 · dir. Leo Zhang

🍅 24%★ 5.2science fiction · action · adventure

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

A hardened special forces agent fights to protect a young woman from a sinister criminal gang. At the same time, he feels a special connection to the young woman, like they have met in a different life.

Jason Bourne

2016 · dir. Paul Greengrass

🍅 55%★ 6.6action · adventure · thrillerNetflix

Action with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

The most dangerous former operative of the CIA is drawn out of hiding to uncover hidden truths about his past.

Jurassic Park III

2001 · dir. Joe Johnston

🍅 49%★ 6adventure · thriller · science fictionStarz

Adventure with a pulse of tension, in both cases

In need of funds for research, Dr. Alan Grant accepts a large sum of money to accompany Paul and Amanda Kirby on an aerial tour of the infamous Isla Sorna. It isn't long before all hell breaks loose and the stranded wayfarers must fight for survival as a host of new -- and even more deadly -- dinosaurs try to make snacks of them.

Gemini Man

2019 · dir. Ang Lee

🍅 26%★ 5.7science fiction · action · adventureParamount+Starz

Science fiction with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Battleship does

Henry Brogan is an elite 51-year-old assassin who's ready to call it quits after completing his 72nd job. His plans get turned upside down when he becomes the target of a mysterious operative who can seemingly predict his every move. To his horror, Brogan soon learns that the man who's trying to kill him is a younger, faster, cloned version of himself.