Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

2karl- So this film is based on a true story in snowflake Arizona in 1975 six men saw it . One became a prisoner inside it. Bit who would believe them? In 1975 , a logger Travis Walton and his co workers discovers a hovering UFO. Walton's pals fled as they saw what was happening to their pal after been taking and subjected to painful unearthly medical studies fire in the sky is amazing tale of that ordeal and the contempt and ridicule endured by his pals as the try to explain Walton's mysterious disappearance he was found five days later battered and bruised James Garner plays an investigator who suspects the story as a over for a killing of their friend and Robert Patrick Henry Thomas Peter Berg and Craig Shaffer characters join Sweeney in the roles of the men bemused by the event that would have thought impossible if hadn't happened to them and encounter with alien life. this 1hr 43mins film is good I gave it 6/10

The_Film_Cricket '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.

AJSteele One of the best UFO movies ever done to this point. This film has scenes of true terror. The character of Travis is played near flawlessly by D.B. Sweeney. His alien abduction is unlike any other thats been put on film. Robert Patricks' role as the concerned friend is a remarkably expressed down to Earth portrayal. James Garner plays an outstanding ultra suspicious investigator. The rural setting adds an understandable skepticism about the bizarre UFO story. The aliens look fakeish, but that doesn't take away from their cold, heartless actions and the otherworldly image they give off. With the same content this movie could easily have been a back shelf bomb. However, careful analysis of thoughts and ideas prevailed. It is based on a supposedly true story and handles it well. The movie also deals with friendship, and the layers it has. The film is different because it deals with two separate issues:Whats happening on Earth/Whats happening with the abducted. Good Sci-Fi all around. The DVD quality is very good. Turn it up.

Raymond I must have gone thru Netflix sci-fi section for tens of times and never really finding anything worthwhile to watch. I've either seen them all or the rest just don't light a spark. I've looked at this title for many many times without even thinking of watching it, I've never heard of it and the cover looked a tad cheap.Yesterday I noticed it's got a pretty nice cast, big names in it and I'm quite fond of 90's flicks at the moment.. why not give it a go. I was dragged into it quite quick, very interesting, well made beginning. The movie went on and I was totally hooked and I found myself thinking "why haven't I heard of this movie before". I know movies, it's not often I run into an older movie that has somehow slipped my eye and still be worth looking at, but this is one of those. This really is.The movie has an interesting story, it's very (and I mean very) well acted and the direction is on par with many bigger name directors. I don't know why this guy doesn't have more movies under his resume. He seems to have been quite active on TV tho. I've never been that big a fan of Robert Patrick, but he is great in this movie. Great performance, I must say I look at this man in a completely different light from now on. DB Sweeney on the other hand was miscast in my opinion. Not that he doesn't do a good job, but he's a bit of a comedian in my eyes and a bit of a goofy one at it. In some dramatic scenes he looked a bit funny twisting his face, even tho he did quite a good job most of the time.I'm not quite sure if this movie was ever even released in Finland when it was new, it may be that it was completely overlooked. The story is something that might not appeal to a big audience tho, it's quite a lot on the drama side and the characters are 70s "regular people", not Fox Mulders or Men in Black. Anyway, despite the movie being mostly character driven drama, it's got one of the most striking alien scenes I've seen on screen, I was genuinely horrified and really not expecting anything like it. It was a bold choice from the writers and director to combine such strong drama to a more - how should I say it - mainstream appealing scene. It's a weird combo, but works like a charm here.Don't miss this.