The Worst Film Ever

Pretty Good

Admirable film.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Real or Fake? Does it matter? The best scientists in the world say that there is life on other planets..so it's real. But they also say that we will never be able to make contact...so its fake. Unless the Fermi Paradox is true, then it could have never been real in the first place...that is unless the zoo theory is true and they are already here and then, it could be real.real or fake, real or fake, real or fake? I scream you scream we all scream for ice cream.It doesn't matter, most of us don't watch anything involving aliens because we think it could be real...we watch it because it's entertaining.And Fire in the Sky is entertaining...the exact same way that the X-Files was entertaining. In fact, the movie feels like an extended stand alone episode. It looks like an X-Files episode. It, well, it's an X-Files episode sans Mulder and Scully. That's perfectly fine by me...even if it did have Doggart Bottom line is it's dark, sorta scary fun. Scary in that paranoid cold chill up your spine sorta way...So honestly, the entertainment is real, and that's all that matters. Let the tinfoil hat crowd argue about Travis Walton, I just want more movies like this one.

Please put this fire out.Based on a true story, loggers driving home encounter an alien ship. Whatever possessed that guy to go out of the truck and examine what they were seeing? He is soon sucked up and disappears.Naturally, suspicion arises that the truckers have made up the whole thing and have killed the guy. Even their lie detector test shows that they're probably telling the truth, but one test is inconclusive and that's the one from the deviant of the group.The whole story is unconvincing and to be honest not very interesting either.James Garner, as the chief investigator, is very low keyed here. He is not exactly Jim Rockford from television's Rockford Files fame.

In his life and that's still ongoing Travis Walton has proved to be the poster boy for UFOs. If you believe him this film is an account of this rather ordinary life who had an extraordinary experience.Walton who is played here by D.W. Moffett is a member of a logging crew that is run by his brother-in-law Robert Patrick and one fine day after leaving the job he is whisked up in one of those UFOs and disappears.The folks in the Arizona small town where he comes from are rather skeptical and the sheriff who is played by Noble Willingham knows when he's over his head. He brings in the Arizona State Police's chief investigator James Garner when Moffett goes missing and for five days Garner makes life miserable for the rest of the crew as he doesn't believe some big spaceship whisked Moffett away.But that's nothing compared to the fuss when a naked Moffett telephones from a deserted gas station and his family goes and picks him up. He's one frightened dude as you can imagine and when we see what these aliens look like it's understandable.What's so frightening about them is that they just see us as lab rats to be experimented with. It's the recurring theme that people like Walton tell. But no one like Travis Walton ever got so much public attention.The problem of telling stories about true people is that the story isn't ended. Films like Close Encounters Of The Third Kind by their nature can be better structured because an author does the structure. We don't know whether Walton will eventually be a human cultural icon or be branded a phony as was the case of Anna Anderson claiming to be the Russian crown princess Anastasia.In any event the cast playing several very average people acquits themselves well in a decent knockoff of Close Encounters.

Interesting UFO abduction story. Based on real life incidents involving the real Travis Walton. D.B. Sweeney plays Walton and does a credible job. As does Robert Patrick as Walton's brother-in-law,Mike Rogers. Craig Sheffer and Peter Berg are OK in their brief roles but Henry Thomas (E.T.) and Bradley Gregg as wasted in theirs. As is the lovely Kathleen Wilhoite as Roger's wife. But it was nice to know they are in the background.The late great Noble Willigham was excellent casting as the sheriff who wants to believe the boys of the UFO story but just can't. James Garner also did very good in his sleazy/slimy role as the investigator trying to get the boys to just fess up and confess they killed Travis and stop lying with the so-called UFO story.I was surprised to see a actor of the name of Robert Covarrubias in the role as a persistent news reporter. Nice. I last remember him from Boulevard Nights(1979)(his debut) as a local rival homeboy from the barrio. Another actor I know but really did not see (because his role was so minimal!) was Peter Mark Vasquez.(Colors,Blood In-Blood Out) All in all a good film. Highly recommended.