Beyond the Sky (2018) Review
Following the apparent abduction of his mother when he was a boy and the breakup of his family a young filmmaker sets out to shoot a documentary that will expose the lies of alien abductees. H, along with this crew uncover a dark secret and a disturbing truth that we are now in fact, alone.
I stumbled across this title back awhile and as a fan of Dee Wallace I just had to give it a look. A few minutes in and I had kind of lost the will to live. It couldn’t seem to make up its mind as to whether it was a found-footage film or not, shifting back-and-forth into the dreaded format for no real reason. It was rather confusing. On top of that it just seemed, well, boring! Perhaps I had assessed Beyond the Sky unfairly, perhaps another viewing would reveal the movie to be the gem I had hoped it really was, but alas it’s not.
I remember a time when sci-fi movies evoked a sense of wonder and awe – for example Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which, like Beyond the Sky, involves alien abduction. Unfortunately Beyond the Sky offers up no sense of wonder or awe for the viewer, visually or story-wise. Instead director Fulvio Sestito’s Beyond the Sky is an incoherent mess, and one that completely wastes the talents of the wonderful Dee Wallace and Prison Break’s Peter Stormare.