![]() Skyline is at once a large-scale disaster movie and a minimalist tale of survival. Skyline follows an engaged couple who are on a relaxing weekend with some friends in Los Angeles when alien ships unexpectedly descend from the sky. The first chapter in the series didn’t make huge impression at the time, but Skyline has aged surprisingly well and is much more consequential to the franchise than the popularity of its successors might indicate. Here is the ranking of the Skyline series. It may have taken the Skyline franchise a decade to get to where it is now, but the popularity it now enjoys just shows that a franchise revival is never truly off the table. By bringing together such distinct elements as aliens and martial arts, the Skyline series also stands alone as unique among both genres. RELATED: Every Sci-Fi Movie Still Releasing In 2020 ![]() The third chapter, Skylines, ups the ante from the first two, going from the survival story of the first two films to one of humans venturing to the world of their invaders, mixing in plenty of the second film's martial arts action and finally putting the spotlight on the series' through-line Rose. ![]() That changed seven years later with 2017's Beyond Skyline, which kept the epic, global invasion background from its predecessor and cross-bred the film with the ferocity of The Raid series - one of the best martial arts movie franchises in recent years - even bringing a few of its cast members into fold.
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