"Smoke on the water and fire in the sky", or rather, "Fire in the sky, can't you see that all my castles are burning?" Obvious song references aside (Oh yeah, like you would be able to resist), this film's title is awesome, and certainly more so than the title of the book upon which it's based, "The Walton Experience", which sounds like some kind of theme park based on Earl Hamner, Jr.'s "The Waltons" or something. It just felt a little empty and distracted from what was a good film. The filmmaker and writers needed to focus more on the characters as the storyline focused on them. The alien abduction scenes are well created and is well handled. The overall story is complicated and the truth is just as vague. The films narrative and construction is quite good and I enjoyed how the filmmakers questioned the truth and left things so unclear. We follow Robert Patrick's character through the majority of the film and they tend to skip over everyone else. The films characters lack a general understanding and if I had one complaint about the film, it's the background of the support cast, or cast in general. The film manages to capture some of the story but takes a lot of liberties with the encounter. The film is one of the those early abduction stories that has resonated through the community since Walton's first account. I've wanted to watch Fire in the Sky for years and have only managed to track it down.
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