[A] dull, clumsy little movie.
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11/09/09
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The Fourth Kind (2009)
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Reviews Counted:26
Fresh:3
Rotten:23
Average Rating:3.4/10
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: $25,464,480
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
Top CriticNo, no, no, no.
11/09/09
Top CriticBadly acted by everyone (including the director, Olatunde Osunsanmi, who appears onscreen), this insipid jumble's idea of fright is incessant screaming.
11/06/09
Top CriticUltimately, the film's narrative segments are far too glossy and over-stylized, larded with ponderous scoring, obvious melodrama and split-screen visuals that offset the "reenactments" with the "real."
11/06/09
Top CriticThe mission here is to demonstrate how, in this explosive age of dubious information, cynicism can be quickly trumped by gullibility.
11/06/09
Top CriticUnintentionally, laughably bad.
11/06/09
Top CriticThe Fourth Kind has a clever gimmick and nothing more.
11/06/09
Top CriticAt a recent preview screening, the most common audience response to this nonsense was laughter, not gasps of horror.
11/06/09
Top CriticYou'd do better downloading an old Art Bell show -- say, the one about the guy who put an alien in his freezer -- than investigating this evidence of subnormal activity.
11/06/09
Top CriticWithout the true-story conceit, The Fourth Kind would be just another formula horror flick with a couple of passable jolts trying to hold a flimsy story together.
11/06/09
Top CriticMay be humorless, paranoid nonsense, but its biggest failure is its inability to scare.
11/06/09
Top CriticWhen so many films are bad in lazy and ordinary ways, it's refreshing to occasionally see one that fails interestingly.
11/05/09
Top CriticNot entirely uninteresting, but it suffers from some ill-advised decisions. In fact, the film's "hook" may be its greatest detraction.
11/05/09
Top CriticMr. Osunsanmi's chutzpah exceeds his skill.
11/05/09
Top CriticWriter-director Olatunde Osunsanmi attempts an Orson Welles-like confluence of "real" and imagined that might have worked had he gotten out of the way more, literally and figuratively.
11/05/09
Top CriticThe Fourth Kind is legitimately scary enough to keep you in your seat. (Just don't Google the flick before you see it.)
11/05/09
Top CriticYou don't have to believe in far-fetched tales of mysterious beams of light and alien abductions to get caught up in The Fourth Kind.
11/05/09
Top CriticA mildly scary, totally meaningless excursion into the realms of psychological horror and alien-abduction conspiracies.
11/05/09
Top CriticAs the movie repeatedly insists, it’s only presenting this information; it’s up to you to decide what to believe. Well, I believe this was a waste of about an hour and a half.
11/05/09
Top CriticThe flat-lining, alien-abduction thriller The Fourth Kind offers a close encounter that buries an interesting idea under a barrage of gimmicky, carnivallike hokum.
11/05/09
Top CriticLatest 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:
Critics Consensus: A Christmas Carol Dazzles But Disappoints
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
You've heard of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," but have you seen the trailer for November's "The Fourth Kind," starring Milla Jovovich as a psychologist who stumbles onto... More...
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