The Fourth Kind (2009)

Truly Dreadful Film

This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Technically brilliant. Some bits are very creepy but it is very fake. The problem is the way that the story is told, it jumps between cinematic third person and watching old videos. This becomes disjointed quickly. Thankfully the creepy tone salvages most of the film, although it just isn't scary.

I prefer the it to the third kind. What a disappointment. I thought an alien movie with Milla would've been great. I was deluded. I much rather get abducted for real. This movie was a total bore and didn't having any redeeming qualities. Bunch of boring interviews I couldn't hack five minutes of it.

I wouldn't call myself a conspiracy theorist, but things like this have always interested me. Do I believe in the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligence? Yes. Abductions? Well I'm not sure. I do have to tip my hat to the director though, who did seem to do a proper research into these accounts and possibilities before creating the film. The use of Sumerian, one of the very first languages ever recorded on earth, was quite surprising. One of the most horrifically scary parts about the film is the recordings of the supposed "alien speech" that was accidentally recorded on doctor Tyler's tapes. Deep, grainy and forceful, speaking the Sumerian language. I have not personally researched the events that took place in Nome, but I can neither accept nor deny the possibility of any of the content used in the movie to be real, but it gives you a sense of wonder and interest. I find the movie interesting of course. Entertaining? Not quite as much, the reactions of people are highly exaggerated but hey, I'm not complaining.

This comment is based only on the first few minutes because I couldn't sit through the rest of it.It poses as a real story, with Mila Jovovich introducing herself as an actress who plays the part of a psychologist and some of what follows may be disturbing and it's all God's truth.I could barely concentrate on her pretty face and girlish voice because the director kept cutting from one sentence to the next, and provided Jovovich with a background of a constantly moving series of tree trunks. Makes for a great visual after effect. (I'm a psychologist too.) But it also makes you wonder whether the director and editor were spaced out themselves.In the next few minutes, one slice of baloney neatly follows another. The first "witness" we see is a harrowed middle-aged woman overly made up to look ghoulish and who has been told never to blink while she narrates her part of the story. We next see Jovovich being hypnotized by another psychologist, which is at least an interesting idea, but the camera moves in a leisurely circle around her, sometimes with the image being blotted out completely by sunshine streaming through the office window.None of this suggests "a true story." It suggests a production in which Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" was an inspiration but which has succumbed to all the current fads of fast editing and constantly moving cameras that is a legacy from MTV.Some might gawk at it. I just winced.