Milla Jovovich, Elias Koteas, Will Patton, Hakeem Kae-Kazim
Set in the fall of 2000 and purportedly based on actual events, The Fourth Kind stars Milla Jovovich as Dr. Abigail Tyler, a Nome, Alaska-based psychotherapist whose videotaped sessions with her patie... read more 
Directed by: Olatunde Osunsanmi
Release Date: November 6, 2009
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Blair Witch ,
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Olatunde Osunsanmi
DVD Release Date: March 16, 2010
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November 30, 2011It has some built in scares and although you lose a bit of interest in the second half of the film it still manages to be quite astonishing with the help of actual footage. Whether the footage was edited or not however, The Fourth Kind was put together pretty well.
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October 22, 2011Occasional use of the "found footage" concept makes for a sometimes disturbing, but otherwise dull, psychological/science fiction thriller about alien attack. And this is no CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND.
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October 8, 2011fb729949618Unbelievable. In a bad way.
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July 19, 2011This is like an extended X-Files episode starring Milla Jovovich, although there are parts of the film you wonder why they shot and cut the story in half with seperate actors to play the "real" people and the "actors" that just gets confusing because nobody would believe the yarn... read more
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January 29, 2011A thought provoking piece. I'm not sure if the FBI stats were real or not but it was interesting. I've heard a lot about this and honestly expected it to be much worse. They could have gone down the "small, green, bug eyed men" route which they didn't; they left it to the imagina... read more
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January 5, 2011A bit pretentious but still entertaining. I couldn't help but feel like she was totally nuts. Pretty convienient that the camera always blurrs out right when stuff starts happening, even when they're just remembering via hypnosis.
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December 22, 2010Blair Witch Project + Fire In The Sky + any documentary = The Fourth Kind. None of which were good!
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November 16, 2010Eh. The movie was ok. It moves a bit slow, but there are a couple of good jolt moments. They use the same gimmick as Blair Witch or Paranormal Activity by alluding to "the threat", but never actually showing them. At least Paranormal used the gimmick to much greater effect though... read more
Critic Reviews
July 4, 2010
Ian Buckwalter, NPR
November 6, 2009
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News
Badly acted by everyone (including the director, Olatunde Osunsanmi, who appears onscreen), this insipid jumble's idea of fright is incessant screaming. Full Review
November 6, 2009
Amy Biancolli, San Francisco Chronicle
Ultimately, 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." Full Review
November 6, 2009
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
The mission here is to demonstrate how, in this explosive age of dubious information, cynicism can be quickly trumped by gullibility. Full Review
November 6, 2009
Kyle Smith, New York Post
The Fourth Kind has a clever gimmick and nothing more. Full Review
November 6, 2009
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
At a recent preview screening, the most common audience response to this nonsense was laughter, not gasps of horror. Full Review
November 6, 2009
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
You'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. Full Review
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