The Fourth Kind

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The Fourth Kind

Milla Jovovich, Alisha Seaton, Will Patton, Corey Johnson, Daphne Alexander, Elias Koteas, Enzo Cilenti, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Mia McKenna-Bruce

Fact-based thriller involving an ongoing unsolved mystery in Alaska, where one town has seen an extraordinary number of unexplained disappearances during the past 40 years and there are accusations of...( read more  read more... ) a federal cover up.

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  • briandeguelle
    November 11, 2009
    briandeguelle
    It?s an interesting approach to the alien theory with this movie being shot like a documentary. All performances are great with Mila jovovich being on fine form here. The movie is shot with real (you decide on this) stock footage and video interviews from the main person that mil...( read more)la is portraying. This adds to the eerie feel of the movie and give you some nice jumps and scares. It?s great to see that the alien adduction theme back on the big screen again, this movie didn?t add anything new or give you any new answers its pure entertainment. I have read reviews and webs site saying that this movie is not a true story as it claims and that the stock footage to be fake. But at the end I doesn?t care this movie was great and if I wanted to see real stories about this theme I?ll go to the documentary channels for that.
  • garebearsgirl
    November 8, 2009
    garebearsgirl
    Really good movie, but it scared the crap out of me!!
  • flickfever
    November 6, 2009
    flickfever
    If The Fourth Kind supposed to make you believe in aliens or, at least, make you re-evaluate your beliefs, let me tell you: it probably won't. Even though it's being marketed as "based on the actual case studies," the movie ends up feeling more phony than anything concocted in f...( read more)iction could have ever felt.

    When a group of Nome, Alaska residents begin to encounter strange dreams and eerie night-time episodes of sleeplessness and feeling a presence in the room a Dr. Abigail Tyler (psychologist) begins to sniff around. She thinks, of course, that these strange occurrences have something to do with her own husbands mysterious death some time before. He had been investigating similar, paranormal events in the small frigid community before his demise.

    When things begin getting tragic in Nome, Tyler is forced to reconsider what may be happening to the residents. She must hastily acknowledge that the only explanation is that someone or something is controlling the events. When she decided to videotape some of the patient sessions, that when things start to get really bad.

    And I mean that in more ways than one. Not only to the events in the plot become more strange and mysterious--but that's when the movie itself begins to dwindle. The gimmick of this film is that the "real-life" evidence recorded by the "real" Dr. Tyler is interpolated throughout the film with the dramatized version of those events. Often, you get split screens with both the real footage and the phony footage. The phony footage being (in my opinion) the real-life videotapes.

    It all seems beyond the realm of belief, even for a film that is science fiction. But if anything is supposed to be grounded in fact, it's that this movie would have been better being either all "real-life" or all dramatized. The whole splitting your attention for credibility's sake makes it all too distracting and not engaging enough. It's too much of a ploy to manipulate your discretion and ability to discern fact from fiction.

    In the end, all you really end up witnessing is a bunch of static on a videotape. It really proves nothing more than you already may or may not have believed. If anything it cements the skeptics' opinion even more and clouds the murky faith of the believers even more. It really proves nothing or has anything new to say in terms of alien science fiction film.

    If the fourth kind of alien contact is abduction, then the fifth kind must be boredom.
  • adfill7
    November 17, 2009
    adfill7
    Though there are some good scares, the pseudo-documentary style just didn't work for me. At all.
  • u2acro
    November 4, 2009
    u2acro
    Wow. This movie was just... Let's put it this way: I'm glad I saw this for free via screener passes.

    The big deal with "The Fourth Kind" is that it's supposed to be a documentary, but not, but a horror, but not. It's real, but not, with enhanced scenes, but they're not really en...( read more)hanced - they're pretty much lies disguised as "literary liberties."

    The movie tries to get cute by interrupting the movie with "archived footage" from "real case studies," which, yeah, sometimes seems true and sometimes is laughable. It's annoying, though, because the "archived footage" often shares split-screentime with the current, Milla Jovovich-acted movie. Sound confusing? Sometimes it is. It's such an elaborate plot device for a movie that has more loose ends than a bevy of whores in Hollywood.

    Milla Jovovich does ok with the material she's given, I suppose. She often overacts, but her lines are goofy and her motivation is just ridiculous.

    The bit players have roles that do nothing but cause chaos, and their motivations to do/say or not do/say things are even crazier than Jovovich's. The sheriff? Yeah, he's nuts and a bad, bad actor.

    Plot holes... oh, there are so many plot holes. Start a "plot hole bingo" card and check them all off.

    I came away from "The Fourth Kind" thinking about aliens and space and humanity, because those subjects intrigue me -- but I didn't come away frightened. Honestly, the people who are calling this "one of the greatest horror movies of the year" might possibly have been abducted themselves.
  • edwardcullen2012
    December 6, 2009
    edwardcullen2012
    seen it was really good but idk i think aliens might be real but then again she did look crazy
  • angeleyes8428
    December 6, 2009
    angeleyes8428
    I found this a kinda good movie, but to each their own!
  • almacal1
    December 6, 2009
    almacal1
    I love Milla but....
  • BFKEGYPT
    December 5, 2009
    BFKEGYPT
    ALIENS AND REDNECKS DISAPPEARING....CAN YOU SAY CAN'T MISS !!!!!!!
  • CarterBryce
    December 4, 2009
    CarterBryce
    wtfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff this movie was fucking crazzzzzzzzzzzyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
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