Length: 97 minutes
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Director: Scott Stewart
Daniel is quite possibly the worst
husband of all time. He and his wife Lacy (Keri Russell) are
struggling with bills because he lost his job. Though he goes on a
few interviews, nothing happens, and he lies to his wife, telling her
that he thinks he landed a job. Lacy tries to overlook things and
focuses on selling homes as a real estate agent.
One night, she finds food sitting in
the kitchen floor and the refrigerator door open. She finds more odd
things like furniture rearranged, food stacked up again, and the
alarm going off in their home. They talk to the police, who never
find anything and insinuate that it's her son Jesse causing the
problems. Their youngest son Sammy starts acting out too, screaming
in front of his friends and wetting his pants, which he hasn't done
in years. After Lacy passes out in the middle of a house showing and
a group of birds attack their house, she begins investigating the
possibility that something dark is following her family.
I was so excited to see "Dark
Skies," and I was lucky that our drive-in theater got it after
it left the regular theaters around Dayton. Instead of being a
slightly dark and entertaining film, it was the type of movie that
left me checking my watch and wondering how much time was left, which
is especially sad given its short length.
It's hard to explain exactly what the
problem is, but it did feel like the film was short on action.
Something big would happen, and the film would then spend 20 minutes
explaining it or showing the parents fighting. It got to the point
where I just wanted to scream at the screen and tell her to leave his
ass already. There was so much backstory about his lack of a job and
how it affected the family that I assumed there would be some sort of
payout later but that never happened. The end of the movie just kind
of showed them downsizing and moving on.
It didn't help that they brought it the
great and talented J.K. Simmons. Simmons plays a man who knows all
about "The Grays" and has experience with them. Lacy
convinces her husband to talk to him, they do, and her husband then
wants to just storm off instead of listening to him. He gets one
scene and pops up for a few seconds later and that's it.
As a big fan of Russell, I can't
believe that she did this film. I also can't believe the interviews
she gave where she discussed how scary the movie was and how her kids
probably wouldn't see it. If "Dark Skies" is scary, I'm the
Queen of England.
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