Length: 98 minutes
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: November 6, 2009
Director: Olatunde Osunsanmi
Milla Jovovich ("Resident Evil")
opens "The Fourth Kind," telling the audience that the film
is based on true events that happened in Nome, Alaska. Jovovich plays
Dr. Abigail Tyler, a woman left to raise her two children alone after
someone murders her husband. Tyler tapes sessions with her patients,
and she begins noticing that many of her patients tell her similar
stories.
After multiple sessions, she decides to
use hypnotherapy. Two of her patients tell her stories about seeing a
dark and scary creature enter their homes, and one of the men kills
his family after a session. As she digs a little deeper into their
stories, she begins experiencing similar things at home, leading up
to the disappearance of her daughter.
I cannot believe that I managed to sit
through "The Fourth Kind" twice in my life because this
film is painful to watch. It was one of the first faux documentary
films in the sci-fi genre, but it shows that found footage themes
aren't always the best idea. When I watch a movie, I want to get
caught up in the story and the characters, which is hard to do with
films of this type.
The best found footage films are the
ones that show you characters and let you believe that these actors
are the real people. With "The Fourth Kind," we see
Jovovich playing Tyler, and then we see another actress playing Tyler
in the supposedly real footage. It doesn't help that Jovovich
introduces the film and says that she's playing the doctor. As soon
as you start to believe Jovovich in the role, it shows the "true"
footage and takes you right back out of the film. Luckily, I only
wasted time watching the movie on Netflix and didn't waste any of my
own money.
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