Dark Something

Dark Skies- The first real supernatural flick of the year is...a dud. If you take some time to show your work while adding some movies up you will find Signs + Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Insidious = Dark Skies. From the producers who brought you Insidious and Paranormal Activity, this movie should be somewhat similar, you would think right? Not this time (in the sense of being a quality horror film-but-carbon copy of the plot? exactly). Okay might as well just start from the beginning. Ready? A suburban family finds strange things happening in their home at night and the security alarm goes off and then the youngest son starts acting weird and then crop circles show up on the older son and then the aliens from Signs show up in the younger boy's bedroom and then the parents seek professional help from the newspaper editor in Spider-Man (J.K. Simmons) and then the movie repeats itself and then the spaceship from Close Encounters flashes its lights yada yada yada. There, now you don't have to see it. If I were M. Night. Shyamalan I would sue for the copyright infringement of Signs and make Josh Hamilton (J. Edgar) apologize to the almighty Mel Gibson for his portrayal of an alien-distressed father. Okay... a short break from the negativity to say that there was one incident that caught me off guard that included the mom (Keri Russell, Felicity) turning a corner to find an unexpected visitor in her son's bedroom. See the previews for it and you've predicted all 97 minutes. 5.8/10