Right, well as I sat down late in 2022 to watch the 2020 sci-fi movie "Skyman", I have to admit that I wasn't really expecting a whole lot from writer and director Daniel Myrick. But on the account of it being a movie that I hadn't already seen, of course I opted to give it the benefit of the doubt.
Well first of all, the movie is shot with a constantly in-motion and shaking camera, hand-held style. Yeah, I am not a fan of that. If I opt to sit down and watch a movie, I don't want to watch something that I could have shot myself with my own DV camera. And that was exactly what "Skyman" looked and felt like.
As for the storyline in "Skyman", forget about it. Talk about a swing and a miss. This was essentially just about a wobbly camera following a conspiracy loon out in the remote desert, waiting for the grand return of a UFO. Yeah, not really the most riveting and thrilling of plots.
The acting in the movie was adequate enough. I mean, it felt like the actors and actresses were just told to be themselves while delivering the dialogue that Daniel Myrick had written. So the movie had that natural atmosphere to it, though it did next to nothing to alleviate for the movie's piled up shortcomings in other aspects.
This 2020 movie was a poor excuse of a sci-fi movie. And if you enjoy movies about UFOs and abductions, I strongly suggest you get your kick elsewhere, because "Skyman" felt like an amateurish homemade video.
My rating of "Skyman" lands on a one out of ten stars. And absolute waste of time.
