Night Skies (2007)

Load of rubbish!!

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Funny, I've never heard of the events on the night of March 13th 1997. Something like this would be global news, and on every station in the world right? I was been seven at the time, and would probably remember my parents talking about it if it happened. Obviously, it did happen though. What we see in Night Skies however, probably did not, but it makes for a reasonably solid, extra terrestrial flick coming out of the same category as indie films like Communion and Fire in the Sky.Four kids are taking an RV trip through Arizona, it is the dead of night, and they are lost. Then they have a little accident when they almost collide with a trucker who has stalled out on the side of the road. The RV crashes, and one of them ends up with a near fatal would. As it happens, the guy on the side of the road, is an Ex-army doctor who attempts to help, but without a hospital, the kid could die. They are stuck in the middle of noweher with no cell signal, and there is something lurking about. When they attempt to go looking for help, the s**t hits the fan. How does it do so, in one word...Abduction. Night Skies plays out like a tighter more suspenseful version of Fire in the Sky. The story is an appropriate length, and even if you find it a bit slow, it has a pretty good pay off, also similar to Fire in the Sky, but ten fold more gooey. I would say that Night Skies satisfied me. Whether you believe or not, doesn't really matter. I'm always interested to see how different filmmakers do their take on an Alien Abduction. This one (though shallow) is pretty good.

Night Skies(2007) is a great movie with spooky moments definitely not for the faint hearted. On the DVD disk you can SEE more of Richard and Lily on the UFO and HEAR more gunshot and screams. And if you watch closely in the scene where Richard is in the forest after shooting the other guy, you can see a real freaky alien! Yipes! I flinched after later glimpsing the alien again when Richard got back on the RV. Totally scary as we see Lily running for her life(or maybe it was one of the other girls ?) and trying to make it till morning after they get abducted and Richie has to kill her. Yipes! The cops at the end of the film find Richie scared as hell! Definitely not to miss! 9.98/10! Hire it out or buy it today!

This may contain a spoiler or two, but I will try to avoid that.This movie is supposedly based on the regression-therapy records of someone who experienced the "Phoenix Lights" on March 13, 1997. If you have read the book "Communion" by Whitley Strieber then the plot will seem very familiar to you. Also if you have read the narratives from people who claim to have had encounters with aliens, the story might seem familiar to you. So much for the complaints about the story being predictable.If the statement about where the story comes from is true, then that would also explain why the dialogue and the story don't seem all that engaging. This is a true story. Ask yourself this: If someone made a movie of 3-4 hours out of your life, how interesting would it be? How snappy would your "lines" sound to an audience? Would the people watching "your story" think the events were "predictable?" Would they think the dialogue was "unimaginative?" For my money, the dialogue was believable as was the storyline. If this is a true story, I would expect it to be mundane, with ordinary conversation instead of scintillating conversation full of artful badinage. This is supposed to be true life, folks, not some screenwriter's fantasy! Given the above paragraph, I would say the acting was true-to-life. How many people do you know that are not all that great to be around? How many people do you meet everyday that are really engaging and you want to know more about them? Think about it. If this is a true story, then the actors managed to be come off being ordinary and uninteresting characters, just like you might expect. True life is not "Ocean's Eleven!" I thought the special effects toward the end were very good. The aliens looked like most of the descriptions that you will find in the book "Communion," mentioned at the first part of this review. From that standpoint, they were believable. Real life just does not always look as good as Hollywood movies.If this movie was indeed based on the source claimed, then it delivered exactly what I would have expected it to deliver: an incoherent story with a lot of holes and unanswered questions in it.

It's hard to become emotionally involved with characters in a movie when they don't even like each other. You have to wonder why a group of people would even take a vacation together when they get along so poorly. Then when the alien trouble starts you hardly care about most of them. Beyond that you have to get back to an often asked question. Why would beings from a superior planet come all this way to terrorize a bunch of lost tourists. If you are really bored at 2 in the morning and you can't sleep and it's free on TV then maybe. If you have to pay to rent it - save your money.