NASA discovered an extrasolar Earth-like planet in 2005 and determined that intelligent life might exist on it. In an effort to make contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life, NASA launched Project Lighthouse, a deep-space communications array base in Hawaii, to transmit high-powered signals to test the waters. A few years later, the alien spacecraft arrived unannounced. The Joint Pacific Naval Exercise Fleet in Hawaii is ordered to make contact. The guided-missile destroyer and two other warships of hero Navy Lieutenant Alex (Taylor Kitsch) are used as a reconnaissance team and are ordered to contact the alien ship. Instead, they are attacked and suffer heavy losses as a result. Due to the shields deployed by the alien ships, the rest of the Combined Fleet is unable to provide support and is left to fend for itself. In the end, all three modern ships were destroyed. With no ships available, but having to destroy the communication station occupied by the aliens, the battleship Missouri, which had been converted into a maritime museum, could only be used for the final attack. The World War II ace battleship versus the high-tech alien ships, who will win? What is the fate of Earth?
