United States, United Kingdom, Bulgaria · 2009
1h 38m
Director Olatunde Osunsanmi
Starring Milla Jovovich, Will Patton, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Corey Johnson
Genre Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller
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Since the 1960s, a disproportionate number of the population in and around Nome, Alaska, have gone missing. Dr. Abigail Tyler, a psychologist, may be on the verge of blowing the unsolved cases wide open when she finds evidence of alien abductions.
Osunsanmi's big formal innovation tunrs out to be the split-screen pairing of patently bogus "archival" black-and-white video that shows alleged abductees undergoing hypnosis and color "reenactments" of same. Ultimately it's up to you, the viewer, to decide which is more boring.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Joe Williams
Technically proficient enough to keep us intrigued; but we shouldn't have to Google a movie to know if we were scared.
Austin Chronicle by Marc Savlov
This is a strange movie (it feels like a lost episode of the old Leonard Nimoy chestnut In Search of …) about strange people doing strange things.
The Hollywood Reporter by Michael Rechtshaffen
Combines purported raw case study footage with dramatic "recreations" to unsuccessful effect.
Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman
Too often, The Fourth Kind makes the paranormal look disappointingly normal.
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
The Fourth Kind is a pseudo-documentary like "Paranormal Activity" and "The Blair Witch Project." But unlike those two, which just forge ahead with their home video cameras, this one encumbers its flow with ceaseless reminders that it is a dramatization of real events.
Terminally awkward in the way it meshes fake real footage with faker fake footage. It isn’t required to be convincing as fact, but it doesn’t convince as fiction, either.
Philadelphia Inquirer by Steven Rea
A mildly scary, totally meaningless excursion into the realms of psychological horror and alien-abduction conspiracies.
Who's next?
Five guys. One safe. No brains.