This one is pretty bad. It has certain redeeming qualities to it, but not very many. There's the adorable in that innocent kind of way A.J. Cook who is the first and probably only good reason to see this film, there is the one other hot girl, and then there is like the one moment where the film can possibly make you jump, but then you will find yourself angry that a movie this horrible actually managed to scare you for a second by way of extremely loud noises and music thrown at you.But pretty much, everything that you think will happen is going to happen. The predictability level is excruciatingly high with this one. You should make a game of it with your friends to see who can call out more of what is about to happen on screen. The filmmakers really just leeched off of a tiny nutshell of a true story and used it to get more people to try and see this flick. The film really should have just made the aliens into freaky redneck cannibals in the woods, and it would have been more plausible and made more sense probably to what happens most of the time in the film. Aliens were a bad idea for the "creature" or whatever you wanna call them; aliens wouldn't even want to waste their time doing half of the crap they do in this movie. The person seeking a genuine UFO film is going to walk away disappointed, so UFO fans beware.NIGHT SKIES -----4/10.

There is nothing like a pregnant woman to tickle an alien's curiosity. This is the most important thing I'd learned from this movie. And they perform free abortions."The following events in which ugly bug-eyed aliens harass people for no apparent reason are based on 100% factual reports. Everything that occurs in this movie is so incredibly and definitely true that we can't begin to explain just how amazingly true it is. What you are about to see may bore you somewhat, but please stick with us, because we do have some neat 118-dollar special effects in store for you in the grand finale, right after the uneventful dull first hour." Oh no, not again. Can't they just admit it's all make-believe hooey like most other films do? By starting off with these moronic claims these movies actually shoot themselves in the foot, making it even more easy for me to hate them. Did Spielberg lie to us about "Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind" being a true story? No. And yet that movie was great. The pretense is unnecessary.Senator McCain making a casual remark about some "unexplained lights in the sky in Arizona", is that best you could do, movie? Well, that proves it! They exist!The biggest problem with anal-probes (or in this movie's case, nasal probes) isn't that they hurt a lot or that you don't get paid by aliens for being their unwilling guinea-pig subject. It is the fact that they are so SHORT. Why do I mean by that? Well, when these daft alien-abduction based-on-"fact" movies are written, there is so little time dedicated to the actual abductions because of the speed with which everything happens with the kidnapped humans. As a result we always have too much padding in these films.Ditto NS. It takes ages for this movie to finally get alien with us. Until that happens, NS takes its sweet time, introducing the dull characters in annoyingly pointless detail, making sure we don't miss anything – including even every visit to the toilet. You could give me an exam on these people and I would know the answers, all of them, down to the colour of socks they wear. What I would not be able to answer in this hypothetical quiz though is how the hell a kitchen knife managed to pierce a man's back, the entire 20+ centimeters, in a minor van collision. I really couldn't. A person's back isn't exactly soft like butter; you actually do have to utilize some measure of well-concentrated force to get a knife to go that deep. (Not that I speak from personal experience, shame on those of you who even thought of it.)I can certainly see the motives aliens would have for spending years (optimistic estimate) traveling all the way to our Solar System, only to engage in a childish game of hide-and-seek with a bunch of moronic young people. That makes a lot of sense, as usual. What were they really doing here, I wonder sometimes.In the end, Jason Connery, making his dad Sean truly proud by appearing in this UFOnic masterpiece, finds himself wrapped in bundles of cheap coloured styrofoam. He finds the blond, sees that she has been probed, her fetus aborted, and then SHOOTS her. (Is he a Catholic?) He hadn't thought of actually SAVING her?"The aliens you have witnessed in the past 90 minutes turned out to all be members of the Intergalactic Mike Myers Fan Club. They had come to Earth to honour their hero by impersonating him. On this annual club meeting the decision had fallen to do a re-enactment of "Halloween IV". Thank you for viewing our fact-based movie, and we hope very much that you enjoyed all of our aliens. We'd spent 103 dollars on the effects (we lied in the epilogue, sorry) so we cross our fingers it was worth the money and all our combined effort. None of the scenes that you've just witnessed were inspired by any of our 48 viewings of FIRE IN THE SKY."On a serious note, the movie REALLY shoots itself in the foot during the prologue:"McCain's requests for an official investigation into the Phoenix Lights (catchy name) were denied by the military… these lights can still be seen in Arizona's skies". Well, duuuuh. Add 2 and 2 together, Einsteins. Those were and are military test craft of some sort. Duuuuuuh."Senator McCain has seen this movie and said it stinks."

I love movies about ETs and the paranormal. Night Skies was reeeally hard to finish because it was so poorly made. Just when I got past the formula "cookie-cutter" characters and their less than believable actions -- the special effects started in. Oye vey.This reminds of another Arizona alien movie, Fire in the Sky. It was a very good movie and I wondered how much of it was accurate. After some research, it turned out that the guy who inspired the story for Fire in the Sky had a very different version than what the movie portrayed.That makes me wonder if there is any semblance of a "true story" that is portrayed in this train wreck of a movie, Night Skies.Unanswered questions for me once I finally reached the end of this horror story: 1. Why would beings that are sophisticated enough to travel through space/dimensions need to blow out the windows of a vehicle/house to abduct the screaming actors? 2. Why in the hell did the aliens explode a cabin in the woods? wtf

I think if you are a fan of sci-fi or are interested in the UFO subject you will hands down find this an entertaining film. You are on the edge of your seat the entire time, it is very scary. That was what it was trying to do, be a thrilling film, and I think it got that down very well. Also the actors were not required to do much but I think for the budget and the 'level' of the actors, the acting was more than average and fit the film perfectly. IF you do not like sci-fi, you probably wont like this film ,but if you don't mind it, even if you are not a sci-fi or UFO fan, i think you can enjoy this scary and somewhat thoughtful film. The special effects were very good too, I don't think anything looked fake or cheesy at all. 8/10