I love UFO stories. They’re fascinating and informative narratives that can be interpreted on multiple levels such as fairy tales, mythologies and now, even religion. It should come as no surprise that I’ve got a penchant for UFO movies too. So when I learned that Night Skies was based on the 1997 Phoenix Lights UFO sighting in Arizona, I anticipated a damn good paranoid drama about MKULTRA, space aliens and honest-to-good Americans getting caught up in the mix. But I was wrong. Very wrong. Night Skies is a horrible film. The title has more potential than the movie itself. But, if I were to explain the film’s story elements, you would realize that it had all the makings of a great film. So, what went wrong? The plot. It’s possible that the movie goes badly because the plot is horribly written (or edited) despite being a good story. For Night Skies, everything goes downhill after Act One. That’s obviously not a good sign.
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