Is anyone else annoyed that they can just lie and say this is based on real footage? It would be creepy if it were, but it's not. There should be a law against this . The gimmick is used far too often. I also hate how you get stupid people who think it really is real and will argue with you about it. I remember getting into arguments with people over The Texas Chainsaw Massacre being real when the remake came out in 2003.

THE FOURTH KIND

I enjoyed watching this today. I like how they switched from "real" video to movie time to time. I enjoyed the story. It set a good feeling of suspense and uncertainty. I was confused though whether the real footage had any validity to it. I prefer it when films like PA are made and you know it's totally fake but when something like this comes along and "claims" to be somewhat valid I'd like to know what parts were valid.



grade - B

As far as I know, absolutely none of it is.

How is PA as guilty? Never once does it say in the ads that it's real. That's all the advertising for THE FOURTH KIND does. If you're talking about the "demand it" marketing "gimmick" then that's a whole different story, and at least it didn't revolve around a big fat lie.

Well they had me fooled with the whole thing being fake then. Kinda irks me when marketing adverts a film as being based on actual footage and case studies yet it be phony.

So...good job to marketing and filmmaking but bad taste to the moviegoer.

http://www.filmcritic.com/misc/emporium ... ourth-Kind

The linked review above calls the movie "entertainment fraud."

On a related note, I saw this tonight. It was at times interesting but the acting by Milla was lacking (having seen her interviewed, it's hilarious seeing her play a psychologist; not surprisingly, she's not at all convincing). The scenes of the director "interviewing" the "real" Abigail Tyler were offputting and didn't really work since as portrayed, the woman is clearly a nutjob and thus, you never really buy her story, especially once the missing child element is revealed. The mixing of dramatization and faux doc footage also didn't help matters since it inevitably takes the viewer out of the experience, a constant reminder that you're watching a movie, something that makes it nearly impossible to really get invested in the experience. They would have been better off choosing one route (faux doc or movie dramatization) and going with it instead of mixing the two.

I highly enjoyed it. Absolutely disturbing.

I thought it was one of the worst movies of the year. It was incredibly boring and the mixing of the two film styles was incredibly annoying. PARANORMAL ACTIVITY this isn't.

3/10 (D-)

I saw an advanced screening of this at my college 2 weeks before it came out, and I, along with 95% of the rest of the theater, hated this film. We laughed at its attempt to be a thriller.

D+

I bet.

3/10 -> D-

A clumsy movie. Trying to mix the "real" footage with the "reenactments" wasn't the best idea. Also the big reveal scenes turn out to be more funny than scary. Aliens come to say: "I Am God. Stop Researching." Really? It kinda completely collapses at the end. Not that it was good to begin with. This should have been a straightforward movie. I think it might have turned out much better.

How one confuses bullet in the head with the chest stabbing?

That's the part that bothered you the most?

It was just a quite glaring thing. Am usually bothered by such stuff.

I agree with you Joe (Harry). Due to the annoying way this is filmed it's nearly impossible to get fully invested in it. They should have chosen one way of filming it and stuck to it. I'll admit it was interesting at times, but it's just so inconsistent and ludicrous and never scary. It annoys the hell out of me that they tried to pass this off as real.

5/10 ( C )

Frustrating. I wish director Olatunde Osunsanmi had concentrated on the Milla Jovovich/Elias Koteas scenes, which are atmospheric and involving, and excised the faux-documentary content. The constant reminders what you are watching is based on "real" audio/video recordings and interviews are grating. It's difficult to invest in the storyline when you are so busy considering how "clever" the film and its unorthodox structure is. There is a strong alien-abduction suspense film within The Fourth Kind, but the overall experience is too precious and too MUCH when LESS would have been MORE. I will give credit where credit is due, though: there are a number of jolting, memorable individual sequences and Jovovich and Koteas give strong performances.

C+

B+

Much much better than PA, I enjoyed the way they mixed he "real stuff" with the dramatization, and yes the scene with the tape recorder is fucking scary.

You would think so . PA was much better .

Yeah right.