The Fourth Kind

You 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.Read Full Review »

A mildly scary, totally meaningless excursion into the realms of psychological horror and alien-abduction conspiracies.Read Full Review »

Too often, The Fourth Kind makes the paranormal look disappointingly normal.Read Full Review »

The result is not entirely uninteresting, but it suffers from some ill-advised decisions. In fact, the film's "hook" may be its greatest detraction.Read Full Review »

May be humorless, paranoid nonsense, but its biggest failure is its inability to scare.Read Full Review »

A couple of modestly effective shocks lie in store.Read Full Review »

Osunsanmi wants you to believe that everything he shows you that's not reenacted by professionals really happened, and is documented by the omnipresent video cameras. It's a device used far more successfully in "Paranormal Activity," which had the added benefit of being a good movie.Read Full Review »

The Fourth Kind is a pseudo-documentary like "Paranormal Activity" and "The Blair Witch Project." But unlike those two, which just forge ahead with their home video cameras, this one encumbers its flow with ceaseless reminders that it is a dramatization of real events.Read Full Review »

They try to get 'real' about strange occurrences. Instead they get ludicrous.Read Full Review »

But seriously, folks, if you're going to make a scary movie, shouldn't you be able to do it without resorting to both "Blair Witch"-style found footage and movie stars? (Will Patton and Elias Koteas also show up as, respectively, an angry sheriff and a psychologist friend of Abbey's.)Read Full Review »