Fire in the Sky was a frustrating film in that it had such promise and wasted about 3/4 of its runtime on an uninteresting and poorly acted/scripted human story. The story really is amazing...I've never been a sceptic of these things, and if there's a convincing case presented, I'll be the first to defend its better aspects. This movie definitely presented some kick-ass evidence and a really cool story.
However, it was difficult to sit through and downright laughable during its drawn out interrogation and small-town angst sequences. There is nothing interesting about small-town ethics and stigma. And yet it continues to ruin promising movies, and it's making me sick. I first noticed this with the equally interesting yet stupidly crafted October Sky, and also the not-half-bad Rudy. It ran rampant in this movie, and I'm coming to the conclusion that this sort of tediousness in movies was really just a stamp of 90s cinema, and going back and watching all of my childhood favorites is proving to be a horrible and dream-crushing experience...
Lastly, let me just say that the sci-fi and terror sequences of this movie DID in fact kick-ass. The scene in the space-ship was genuinely terrifying in every sense of the word, and the way in which the flash-backs are created really are great. During these few yet powerfully engulfing scenes, I found myself wishing that the entire movie had revolved around them. I wished that they had completely skipped the whole back-woods investigation and terribly over-acted characters that made up almost the entire movie.