Loosely based on the alleged alien abduction of Travis Walton, “Fire In The Sky” is an exceptional film. Although it is a science-fiction movie about aliens, I like the way that it makes an impact without bombarding you with shots of the aliens and the spaceship. It’s a slow movie that builds to a magnificent sequence showing what supposedly happened during the abduction.

A group of Arizona loggers inform authorities that they believe that their colleague, Travis Walton (D.B. Sweeney), was abducted by aliens. The police and their community are sceptical of the claims and dislike all the attention from U.F.O. enthusiasts that their small town is receiving. Eventually, Travis reappears but what exactly he saw may have been more horrifying than anybody could possibly imagine.

There are some great performances in this movie. I especially enjoyed watching Robert Patrick (“Terminator 2: Judgement Day”, “D-Tox”) as Mike Rogers and James Garner (“Maverick”, “Space Cowboys”) as Lt. Frank Watters. D.B. Sweeney is good as Travis Walton and I particularly like how he plays the role after being traumatised by the alien ordeal. The aliens only appear in one scene but they look amazing and are among the best aliens I have ever seen in a film.

“Fire In The Sky” contains one of the most disturbing scenes in any movie that I have watched and that is the scene where the aliens perform terrifying experiments on Travis. While I certainly have my doubts about how believable the ‘real-life’ story is, I cannot deny that this is a very powerful sci-fi movie. It seems to have been ignored by a lot of people and that is a real shame because this is in the same league as legendary sci-fi movies such as “Blade Runner” and “A Clockwork Orange”. If you have not seen it then you really should be I must warn you that parts of it will most likely shock you.