The Iowa engages the enemy, which seems to be not only Stealth-enabled, but actually invisible to the naked eye, though they do appear when they launch their missile attacks. The USS Iowa is in the area on her farewell goodwill tour, and happens to be nearby when an island whose ownership is disputed by North Korea is attacked by missiles and destroyed by the same unknown enemy. Only a large debris field is found by satellite. First off, ignore the cast and special effects, and consider the plot: The USS Enterprise carrier group is sunk in minutes by an unknown enemy after its electronics are disabled by an "EMP weapon," barely giving them time to send out a mayday. This movie may have come out at the same time as the movie "Battleship," but it had a lot more thought behind it than the bigger-budget movie based on a '60s board game. Apart from a pretty likable Johanna Watts, the acting is poor, either phoned-in or too eager to please. And looking at the logic here, I would genuinely be surprised if SyFy did any kind of research before doing the film whether geographically and scientifically. The story goes at a dull pace and doesn't generate any sort of thrills or fun, everything also feels very predictable in that you anticipate what's happening next constantly. The script is often aimless with cheesy one-liners, the music is often over-bearing and at a sluggish tempo and the characters are little more than underdeveloped clichés(I have yet to see a SyFy movie character that I actually identify with). It does look cheap for starters, with choppy editing, scenery/settings that doesn't look that authentic(including the ship actually) and very slapdash at best special effects that further suffer from bad texture and heavy over-use. However, they have done a lot of cheap and badly written and acted movies, and for me American Warships is one of their worst recent examples. I try not to make it a habit of down-grading the SyFy movies, as there are a few out there that are watchable.
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