Huievest
Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.
StyleSk8r
At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
Matylda Swan
It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.
elliotjeory
The story was interesting and captivates you for a while, particularly if you like alien abduction stories, but somewhere in the middle it just drops and so does your interest. Could of been so much better. But not a bad effort.
frank14
How can anyone like a movie that ENDS with a boy kidnapped (and apparently tortured) in front of his loving parents?? Just before that, we get to watch mom in a pool of blood and dad blowing his own brains out. And the other boy is evidently headed for the same fate. There is nothing more to discuss. I'm disgusted that anyone gave this a positive review.
Ada Mada Pia
I love invasion films and I thought this movie was fantastic. Both Keri Russell and Josh Hamilton were great as the stressed out parents who go from worrying about financial problems to fighting for their kids' lives. I think the film makers did a really good job balancing the emotional aspects of the Barret family's struggles with the creepy factor. They had just the right amount of both to create a well- rounded atmosphere of angst and fear. Enough emotion to allow the audience to be able to relate to the protagonists, but not so much that it becomes a drama with an alien invasion in the background. I particularly loved the scene with J.K. Simmons as the resigned alien expert who's had more than his fair share of harassment from our galactic visitors. I thought that was an important turning point since films depicting an alien invasion usually tend to portray humans as somehow being their equal, when in reality, that probably wouldn't be the case. Simmons portrayed a man who was beyond tired and who knows the hopelessness of the situation. The last half hour gets a little confusing, but after watching it a couple of times, I think I finally figured out what's actually happening. Unfortunately, there's no happy ending here which makes the concept of an invasion a little more realistic in this film and I found that refreshing, if not heartbreaking. It's not a flash-boom-bang kind of invasion movie like Independence Day. In a way, that makes the concept a little more frightening. For these aliens, we are lab rats. Guinea pigs for their experiments, whether it's for their own scientific gain, or because they get some sort of sick pleasure from it. We never know why, just like the animals we experiment on will never know why. We find out the hard way that we are not at the top of the food chain, so to speak.
view_and_review
This movie was exhilarating. I mean: wow! The alien brand of movie usually comes in the all out invasion type ala Independence Day, War of the Worlds, Battle L.A. or even Pixels. In some form or fashion it is usually humanity fighting against the alien race.This movie was a more intimate and even eerier look at aliens. The planet is not being invaded but rather a singular home and a singular family. In a lot of ways this is more disturbing and frightening. If the entire world is fighting against these foreign invaders then at least you're not alone. In this thriller the Barrett family was all alone and grossly overwhelmed by some superior and sinister beings.Dark Skies offered lots of thrills and chills in the bogeyman fashion. Just like most scary movies it followed the escalation pattern in that things start off slowly and somewhat explainable until they get to the down right freak-out stage. Even though they followed a well established and well treaded path it blazed its own trail for the alien sub-genre.
