Dark Skies

Scott Stewart was the man behind Priest and Legion. Do I need to type any more than that? OK so the first half of Dark Skies isn’t too bad as a young family (Josh Hamilton and Keri Russell are the parents) start to experience strange phenomena in their house before more sinister and physical ailments manifest themselves. The structure of the film is disjointed throughout and this adds to a nice level of unease. However, it appears this was more luck than judgement from Stewart as, though the slow build up is well handled, the execution of the second half of the film is completely fumbled with the denouement too confusing to elicit any real scares. Things aren’t helped by the naming of the aliens as “The Greys” either. Could have been a decent little scarer, but overall it just comes across as a below par episode of The X-Files. Rating: 5/10.