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Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

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Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

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falbpe In this case, of the fourth kind, the cinematic premise that for the viewer will be more credible a fiction that is presented as a documentary than a fiction properly said, seems to fail from the first moment. For the facts are so horrendous and the horror story works so well on its own, that the documentary elements are superfluous; to present the facts as based on actual facts only devalues the story. As for Milla Jovovich, she was probably supposed to look like an actress as bad as those working on this kind of midnight documentary, or really her lack of fright is not fake. But again, any kind of mediocrity could be intentional, to reproduce the docudrama in the most faithful way to its televising reality. The important thing here is that, in the end, beyond all mistakes, the horror tale and its premises, even the psychological drama, are interesting. For what we see is not a direct representation of horror, but rather a shadow of it. And this shadow never reveals itself at all, letting the imagination of the spectator immerse itself in its own horrors. And here, it will then be this spectator, who must extract the supposed reality of fiction, or rather, the true horror of the feigned reality. In short, a good movie, with some conceptual flaws, which however, do not ruin the story.

samgiannn It's always a bit fun when a found footage movie affirms to be real footage and sticks with that claim throughout the film. You get to play along with the filmmakers and hopefully get a satisfying horror flick out of it. Movies like Paranormal Activity and The Blair Witch Project did this well, but some movies are a bit too ardent about their authenticity and come off as silly. The Fourth Kind fits somewhere in the ladder category. In The Fourth Kind, the town of Nome, Alaska is plagued by mysterious disappearances, murders and suicides in the early 2000's. A psychologist, Abbey Taylor, head hypnosis sessions with various patients whose stories seem to have distinct similarities, and Abbey realizes that she might be tormented by the same thing that afflicts her patients. The film mostly mixes found footage with dramatized versions of the footage, sometimes showing the "real" and dramatized portions side-by-side. For the most part, it's just aggravating. You'll hear the same dialog from two different actors at the same time on occasion, which begs the question why they didn't either go all-in with the found footage. The found footage scenes are the most intense parts of the films. Not necessarily scary, but they are visceral enough to be memorable. The dramatized scenes are melodramatic and dull. Surprisingly, the movie would have been much better if it was completely found footage. The Fourth Kind has some effective stretches here and there, but it's mostly a half-baked affair.