Today’s quick review: Fighting the Sky. With mysterious sounds coming from the sky and abductees appearing out of nowhere, the public consciousness turns to aliens. Lorraine Gardner (Angela Cole), an alien researcher, reunites with Roy Shaw (Roger Conners) and the rest of her old team to track the sounds to their source. Meanwhile, Valerie Paz (Jinette Faraj), a clever young girl, searches for answers of her own.
Fighting the Sky is a budget science fiction movie about five friends who connect the dots on a series of alien encounters. Fighting the Sky aims to be a tense investigation, but it misplays its hand badly. The plot barely hangs together, the cast is bland and unwieldy, and the movie never finds a way to meaningfully raise the tension. The result is a series of disjointed ideas assembled into an uninteresting and poorly executed story.
Fighting the Sky suffers badly from its budget. The acting is wooden and unconvincing. The sound quality for the dialogue is poor. The soundtrack rarely matches what is on the screen. The special effects are sparing, although they show a little more polish than the rest of the movie. Although Fighting the Sky manages to avoid any catastrophic errors, the production quality seems low even for a budget picture.
Where some movies manage to make up for similar shortcomings through good storytelling, Fighting the Sky does not. The plot is a generic story about aliens that adds nothing new to the genre, and the pacing is slow. The pieces of the puzzle do not fit together into any meaningful pattern. And to top it all off, the movie has a bad habit of starting plot threads it never finishes, leaving the ending wholly unsatisfying.
Fighting the Sky is a rough pick, even for fans of budget movies. It goes through the motions reasonably well, and there are a handful of moments where the cast seems like they are having fun. But between its uninteresting ideas and its unengaging execution, Fighting the Sky will be a miss for the majority of viewers.
For a much smarter sci-fi drama about an alien researcher, try Arrival. For a budget alien invasion with similar problems and more action, try The Recall, Attack of the Unknown, or Alien Uprising.
[3.0 out of 10 on IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4782322/). I give it the same for low production values and a lack of creativity.