Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

AboveDeepBuggy Some things I liked some I did not.

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

SnakesOnAnAfricanPlain As much as I hate to admit it, aliens creep me out. It's probably the simplistic form they usually take, their silence, and yet knowing how intelligent they are. Even a low budget, shoddily acted bit of hokum like Night Skies, has enough to unsettle me for the most part. A lot of it is in the amateur leagues, but the director certainly has an eye for sticking stuff in the background. It gets even creepier when we see things that the characters don't. It's a shame that there's such a bombastic musical score to ruin a lot of the intensity. It's tolerable when it keeps itself simple, but when it goes aliens overboard it loses the mystery.

Samiam3 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.

ElijahCSkuggs Lately, I've been on sort of an alien movie binge. I've been trying to watch as many real-life alien sort of flicks as I can. Some have been okay, and some have been just plain old weak. And I must say this one definitely belongs in the latter category.Night Skies is the supposed true story of an alien encounter during the famous Phoenix Lights UFO phenomenon in 1996. Toss in a pretty much useless side-story with a bunch of young lovelies and you have the makings of a pretty weak movie.How weak is up to you. Right from the get go, for me, the acting and writing, felt like a slap in the face. The back and forth between the young adults was eye-rollingly weak. Night Skies didn't deliver really anything note worthy besides in the special effects department. And that also still felt ScfI Originial-like. It honestly felt like the only real reason they made this movie was because of the gooey stuff you see ALL OVER THE PLACE at the end of the film. "Wow, this stuff is gross, doesn't it remind you of that stuff in Fire in the Sky?" Even though there's a crowd for everything, I still become surprised when people vote a movie like this a 10 and say nothing but good things about it. Maybe they're just overly optimistic people? Maybe I'm just a dude that sees the glass half empty. I think it's a combination of that and probably just not seeing that many flicks.Night Skies isn't the worst movie in the world, but it's certainly nothing recommendable. I'd really only rec this flick out if there were other people out there who also want to see all the alien abduction movies there is. Lots of bad acting, really bad writing, weak directing, mixed with alright effects and loads of exploding windows, plus a moderately grim finale, you could do worse, but I'd recommend this as a party movie instead as a serious sit-down.

siderite The only thing good about this movie was that it was not following a recipe plot, so you never sort of knew what was going to happen next. However, the bad thing is that the director and the screenwriter and the actors also seemed oblivious to what was supposed to happen. In these circumstances it is hard to identify with any of the characters, making the whole point of the film moot.Bad acting, bad directing, low budget, silly rubbery monsters and so on and so on. Michael Dorn appears in a few seconds at the end and no, not as Worf, but as a policeman.Bottom line: stay away from it. Whoever says good things about this movie must have money in it.