Fire in the Sky (1993)

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

The first must-see film of the year.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

I found "Fire in the Sky" in a secondhand DVD store and read the synopsis on the back of the cover and found the concept interesting, so I gave it a chance. And at a meager price of $2 it just wasn't a costly purchase.Now having seen the movie, I will say that I was genuinely entertained, though I could have wished for more screen time with the aliens. But aside from that, then "Fire in the Sky" builds up a great story that progress nicely and director Robert Lieberman managed to put together a movie that keeps the audience at the edges of their seats.The story is about a group of six contractors who all witness a strange phenomena deep in the woods. And when one of them exits the truck to investigate, the event turns into a nightmare as he is battered by an unseen force. Believing their friend dead, the five remaining men flee the scene, only to return to find their friend's body missing. As the story is exposed, the town and police investigators believe this to be an elaborate hoax to cover up the murder of the sixth missing man.There is a good sense of panic, dread and frustration throughout the movie, which really helps the movie along quite nicely.The scenes with the aliens and aboard the spacecraft were actually thrilling and quite nicely executed. I particularly enjoyed the take on the "grey" actually being a space suit. That was jut a stroke of genius."Fire in the Sky" is a good and entertaining movie, and it is well-worth spending about an hour and forty minutes on.

'Fire in the Sky' tells a fascinating story but constructs it all wrong. It is based on the true story of Travis Walton who claims that in 1975 he was abducted by aliens and put through some excruciating tests aboard their spaceship.We know that the movie assumes this to be true. After all, the opening titles begin with 'This is a true story'. The problem is that the movie spends two fourths of it's running time with characters trying to decide whether or not Walton's friends who witnessed the abduction are telling the truth.We know they aren't lying (in terms of this movie) because of a brilliant opening scene. The group (six of them including Travis) are driving home and see lights in the sky. Travis jumps out of the pick-up and runs toward them, is zapped by the light and lifted aboard the ship. The next day a state investigator (James Garner) questions the men about his possible whereabouts especially one (Craig Sheffer) who nearly came to blows with him on the day he disappeared.I have no problem with character study but in this case I was less interested in the personal lives and marital problems of Travis' friends then what happened to Travis himself. The closing scenes of the movie are chilling. After Walton turns up, naked and shaken at a gas station he flashes back to his harrowing experience inside the alien spacecraft.We get to see a brilliant via a production design by === the interior of the ship and the excruciating tests that Walton goes through after being covered with a wet sticky cloth and then waking up inside a goo-filled coffin. These scenes work but I couldn't help wondering if they wouldn't have worked better at the beginning of the film. Then show us the after effects of Walton's life after his return, the interrogations, the suspicions and dealing with it as the years pass. I just think that Walton's story is much more interesting then the suspicions surrounding his buddies.

I came across this movie on several top lists while on the hunt for some good alien abduction/horror movies and with a fair bunch of likable actors I decided to give it a shot.While it might not contain some of the classic "pillow in your face" scary moments there are certainly parts that are somewhat unsettling and eerie.With some solid acting and decent special effects this movie still holds up very well for being more than 20 years old by now and I thoroughly enjoyed it.If you are a fan of alien abduction/mystery movies I would sincerely recommend watching this movie.

"True" story about an Arizona man named Travis Walton (D.B. Sweeney) who disappeared for five days in 1975, supposedly abducted by a flying saucer. The first hour or so is the strongest, with Walton's friends under suspicion of killing him while he's missing. Once Walton returns the movie loses momentum. I did enjoy the stuff on the alien ship, of course. It was very creative. The set and effects people deserve props. But the problem is that the movie spends so much time with these other characters, particularly Robert Patrick's character Mike Rogers, that to have them essentially disappear once Travis returns hurts the story. As for the acting, Robert Patrick gives the best performance in the movie. D.B. Sweeney portrays Travis Walton as mentally retarded. This can't be attributed to the trauma he went through because he was like that before the UFO. James Garner's in this as a dick cop that really serves no purpose but to be a clichéd jerk skeptic. The inconclusive ending will probably leave many dissatisfied. I'm not even going to touch that final scene with Sweeney and Patrick, save to say that it deserves mockery. If you're a fan of UFO movies, check this one out. But be prepared that, while the alien stuff in it is good, there's really very little of it.