SanEat
A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."
Seraherrera
The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity
Marva-nova
Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.
RoswellFan
The series had a novel idea, interpret history involving hostile extraterrestrials and the secret government agency fighting them.This worked quite well. Though, some have criticized the series for styles and music being out of sync with the time periods or other mistakes (one glaring mistake is the footage chosen of a launch of Project Gemini -- shown was a Mercury capsule mounted on a Redstone booster). One has to remember that this was a TV series and as such, was subjected to a tight shooting schedule.Now, like "The Invaders" (if I recall that series correctly), the major drawback was that the main characters made virtually no progress in their fight against the alien menace. A series needs forward momentum, otherwise the episodes become exercises in futility.As for the ending episode, even though the series was abruptly canceled, it could have been better. A longer narration could have been added resolving all of the loose threads, e.g. saying Loenguard's son was the aliens big mistake which caused their defeat.All in all, the series was based on an interesting and intelligent idea and if it had the aforementioned forward momentum, would have been one of the all time classics.
soevik1983
The show is really good in the way it incorporates many UFO myths that might not be known to the gen-pop. Most people only know about Roswell but this show has clearly done a lot of research. The acting is also really good. The plot is above average.It does however suffer on the following points: - The Lundengaard/MJ12 relationship is totally unbelievable. He works against them at the same time as he cooperates. MJ12 sometimes want him gone but in the next episode he's at their facilities working alongside them.The character of Lundengaards wife should have be cut althogheter IMO as it just gets annoying and seems to have been added for the mandatory love story.As the show goes thru the different era's 50s , 60s , 70s etc i got annoyed that they didn't just specify the time we were in in a subtle manner. MJ and Lund. doesn't have to be involved in every aspect of pop culture.Even for the mid 90's the CGI is quite bad. If they had a limited budget they should have just dressed up little kids in alien costumes and film in a dark lit setting.
caroohagan
Excellent story, wonderful cast, thoroughly enjoyed this series. Became slightly tedious when Kimberly was infected, but otherwise very imaginative, blending sci-fi with history. I was disappointed it ended, and rather abruptly, and even more disappointed it didn't catch on as well as it should have. My husband still finds it amusing that I keep saying "X was in Dark Skies" because most of the actors continue to turn up in other popular series. It certainly made you re-examine historical events and being bemused that the premise of these events dictated by aliens - utterly brilliant. Plus, they happened to co-ordinate the story with some very important eras in the States; if it had been contemporary, it would have been rather dull and anodyne.
uniqueabba
Have to say I was a little surprised it was shown here on ITV 4, a channel known for rubbish game shows and late night gaming.A pleasant series, often very corny, and of course only the United States can be trusted to save the world.That is when I lost all interest. It is the United States that is the most dangerous at the moment, perhaps a series of that country's blunders throughout history would be of more interest.But about the show, enough of this "aliens" in human bodies, it has been done before and is not original. It is obviously that the TV channel cannot be bothered to make convincing aliens that we have to endure the "aliens in human form" rubbish yet again. Get some imagination and be adventurous!D
