Paul Magne Haakonsen I found "Fire in the Sky" in a secondhand DVD store and read the synopsis on the back of the cover and found the concept interesting, so I gave it a chance. And at a meager price of $2 it just wasn't a costly purchase.Now having seen the movie, I will say that I was genuinely entertained, though I could have wished for more screen time with the aliens. But aside from that, then "Fire in the Sky" builds up a great story that progress nicely and director Robert Lieberman managed to put together a movie that keeps the audience at the edges of their seats.The story is about a group of six contractors who all witness a strange phenomena deep in the woods. And when one of them exits the truck to investigate, the event turns into a nightmare as he is battered by an unseen force. Believing their friend dead, the five remaining men flee the scene, only to return to find their friend's body missing. As the story is exposed, the town and police investigators believe this to be an elaborate hoax to cover up the murder of the sixth missing man.There is a good sense of panic, dread and frustration throughout the movie, which really helps the movie along quite nicely.The scenes with the aliens and aboard the spacecraft were actually thrilling and quite nicely executed. I particularly enjoyed the take on the "grey" actually being a space suit. That was jut a stroke of genius."Fire in the Sky" is a good and entertaining movie, and it is well-worth spending about an hour and forty minutes on.

juneebuggy This was kinda mediocre and then kinda scared the crap out of me. One of those "based on true events" believe it or not stories right up there for fans of the X-files. It takes place in 1975 and follows a group of forestry workers returning from a day of logging in the woods who come across a huge bright light in the night sky. It appears to be a fire, they stop to investigate, one of the guys gets out to take a closer look and is "killed" by a beam of light from what is a flying saucer.The men take off back to town where the authorities treat their story with scepticism, believing that they are covering up the (now missing) mans murder. For the next five days, the town ridicules them, the media arrives, the police have them take lie detector tests and then Travis returns. At first he remembers nothing about his abduction then the terrible memories come back...A genuinely scary movie with a decent cast which includes James garner in a sheriff type role and a young and very good looking Robert Patrick. Its well acted particularly by D.B. Sweeney who plays Travis Walton. His abduction (torture) scenes onboard the spaceship are freaky, freaky but what scared me most about him was when he first returns; naked and cut up, trying to hide and screaming whenever someone touched him. What happened? 10/31/15

bkoganbing 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.

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.