Watch The Skies Review – Entertaining Dramedy Delivers Strong Story Driven Performances
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- Category: UK A&E, Lifestyle, Culture
- Published on Tuesday, 08 July 2025 11:06
- Written by Janet Walker
Watch The Skies, from Signature Entertainment, presents an entertaining, Sci-fi comedic drama as a misfit group of UFO chasers, set out to find the truth of a series of recent changes in the skies over Sweden.
The film begins in 1988, with Lennart, played by Jesper Barkselius, searching through files, we can see he is frantic, looking for something every specific in rows, and rows, of bound data files. Outside, waiting Uno, played by Oscar Toringe, with his young daughter Denise, played by Lilly Lexfors, when Lennart brings him the data.
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An older man, Gunnar, played by Hakan Ehn, is in charge of cutting the wires, just as the security guards are arriving. When the operation is called, the driver Tona, played by Isabelle Kyed, steps on the gas, gunning the van, as she drives to rescue Gunnar, who is shot in the leg during his escape, Karl, played by Niklas Kvarnbo Jonsson is helping. We see Lennart, in the rearview, being arrested.
Uno races back to UFO Sweden headquarters and frantically asks Denise for meteorological data. Suddenly he takes out a map marking a spot, and then hands his daughter his notes, and explains, "I need you here to bring me back."
We jump to the future as an older Denise, played by Inez Dahl Torhaug, has become part of the anti-establishment youth, and she is waiting for her pals, as they decide to break into a local factory and begin to vandalize the building. She is standing watching the skies, when a shooting star crosses in front of her, the camera cuts to a steel pipe being pulled, as if an unknown anomaly was creating a giant magnetic pull and everything, metal begin to roll and shift. Suddenly the light bulbs begin to pop. Suddenly the alarm goes off, and the kids are busted. Denise takes off on her motorbike and runs right into a police car. We met Officer Tomi, played by Sara Shirpey, who had once been involved with her dad.
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Somewhere in the mountains, at the same time, a farmer is in his barn, when the lights begin to pop, and the pull. Suddenly, through the roof of the barn, a red Saab plows through the roof and lands in the hay pile.
The next morning, Denise, a typical teen is getting breakfast when she looks and sees a picture of the Saab in the barn. By that afternoon she is in the headquarters of the UFO Sweden society. As she is walking down the hall, we hear, Tona, a chain smoking, round woman explaining the red shift in the sky was a variation in the Aurora Borealis.
Denise walks in, and the group of dedicated UFO hunters stare at her. Finally, they allow her to explain her theory. And over the protests of Karl, the group, according to the charter, take a vote to find the truth and together, they embark on a risky adventure, which takes them far beyond the law's borders and into a world of unexplained phenomena.
This moves the film into the second act, and throughout the search the UFO hunters, for the first time in years, are excited and believe the flashing lights, the nighttime sky anomalies, will produce the proof, that we are not alone. And for Denise, she is sure if anyone can help her find her dad, it is the ragtag bunch of misfits. This leads to the climatic and surprising ending.
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Watch the Skies, a comedic drama, is a very entertaining sci-fi flick that draws you in from the beginning and then builds with anticipation and heightened suspense.
An award winning international film Watch The Skies is also the first international feature film to be visually dubbed entirely using Flawless' groundbreaking AI technology. The characters speaking features have been digitally altered to sync up with the English dubbing, making this a unique viewing experience.
Reminiscent of great sci-fi films, Watch the Skies, has three defined acts, and is an entertaining story driven comedic drama filled with heists, hijinks, heightened suspense, and excitement, and delivers memorable character performances as each of the team embody their characters with flair and panache.
Watch the Skies opens exclusively in the UK at Showcase Cinemas, beginning July 11, 2025. See it.
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Country: Sweden.
Language: English.
Release Date: July 11, 2025.
Runtime: 115 minutes.
Director: Victor Danell.
Producer: Albin Pettersson, Olle Tholen.
Executive Producer: Emil Wiklund.
Writer: Victor Danell, Jimmy Nivren Olsson.
Cast: Inez Dahl Torhaug, Jesper Barkselius, Sara Shirpey, Eva Melander, Håkan Ehn, Isabelle Kyed, Mathias Lithner, Oscar Toringe, Lilly Lexfors.
Janet Walker is the publisher, founder, and sole owner of Haute-Lifestyle.com. A graduate of New York University, she has been covering international news through the Beltway Insider, a weekly review of the nation's top stories, for more than a decade. A general beat writer/reporter and entertainment/film critic, she is also an accomplished news/investigative news/crime reporter and submitted for Pulitzer Prize consideration "Cops Conspire to Deep Six Sex Assaults" in the Breaking News Category and was persuaded to withdraw the submission. Ms. Walker has completed five screenplays, "The Six Sides of Truth," "The Assassins of Fifth Avenue," "The Wednesday Killer," "The Manhattan Project," and the sci-fi thriller "Project 13: The Last Day." She has completed the non-fiction narrative, "Unholy Alliances: A True Crime Story," and is available on Amazon. "Days, Times, Seasons, Events: A Collection of Poetry & Prose," will be available by August 1, 2025. She is a member of the Los Angeles Press Club, the National Writers Union, and a former member of the International Federation of Journalists.
