Frankly, this movie is quite scary when it's viewed with the idea that this is the film version of creepy disappearances that are really happening in Nome, Alaska. When it's not that, it's almost laughable.
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11/21/09
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The Fourth Kind (2009)
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Reviews Counted:95
Fresh:17
Rotten:78
Average Rating:4/10
Consensus: While it boasts a handful of shocks, The Fourth Kind is hokey and clumsy and makes its close encounters seem eerily mundane.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Theatrical Release:Nov 6, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $25,145,900
Synopsis: The Alaskan town in this thriller from Olatunde Osunsanmi (THE CAVERN) might seem like any other small northern city at first glance. But over the last four decades, people have been disappearing,... [More]
Starring: Milla Jovovich, Elias Koteas, Will Patton, Hakeen Kae Kazim
Director: Olatunde Osunsanmi
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Reviews for The Fourth Kind
Where is Fox Mulder when you need him?
11/19/09
The "The Fourth Kind" poses as another successful documentary on the hot trail of "Paranormal Activity". Too bad this film is missing many ingredients to make it a blockbuster success.
11/18/09
He apparently thinks white owls are a lot scarier than they are. (I mean, I guess because their heads swivel around, you can't sneak up on them from behind. But when would you need to sneak up on an owl?)
11/13/09
Purporting to be a true story of alien abduction, in reality it's a clumsy attempt to update the hoax technique Orson Welles perfected seven decades ago.
11/13/09
... a sophisticated hoax ...
11/12/09
The first line in The Fourth Kind has Milla Jovovich calling herself an 'actress,' so we know right away the film is lying.
11/12/09
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11/12/09
Has out-Blair Witch'd The Blair Witch Project.
11/11/09
(Director) Olatunde Osunsanmi, his cast and crew work so hard to make it all seem so real that you spend more time debating with yourself whether what you are watching is truth or fiction ...
11/11/09
...even if "The Fourth Kind" came out ten years ago it still wouldn't stand up to overrated "Blair Witch Project."
11/11/09
Unfortunately, none of the subsequent noise is all that scary, and the striving for Paranormal Activity’s buzz is shameless.
11/11/09
"What you decide is up to you," Jovovich permits us at the end, reducing cinema to an Unsolved Mysteries episode.
11/09/09
[A] dull, clumsy little movie.
11/09/09
Top CriticNo, no, no, no.
11/09/09
Top Criticproves that a horror film doesn't need splashy digital effects or pyrotechnics to be effective
11/08/09
The film doesn't deliver any frights or creepiness. The so-called shocking parts are revealed in the trailer. The rest feels as if moments have been stitched together to make a whole.
11/08/09
The release date is not the fault of the movie.
11/07/09
Part disturbing documentary, part straight-ahead movie-making, The Fourth Kind is difficult to watch, difficult to understand and difficult to recommend.
11/07/09
Truth is stranger than fiction, and The Fourth Kind is neither strange nor fictional. It's just plain silly.
11/06/09
Latest News for The Fourth Kind
November 12, 2009:
Universal Settles Fourth Kind Lawsuit
Saying the movie undermines their credibility as news organizations, a handful of Alaskan newspapers have taken Universal to court over "The Fourth Kind" -- and come away with a... More...
November 05, 2009:
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This week at the movies, we've got some modern-day Dickens (Disney's A Christmas Carol, starring Jim Carrey and Gary Oldman); a button-pushing thriller (The Box, starring... More...
September 28, 2009:
New: Brand New Movie Trailer/Poster.
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August 14, 2009:
Trailer Bulletin: The Fourth Kind
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