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Yeah... right! "The Fourth Kind" might have been good had it not followed on the heels of the very well made, very creepy
"Paranormal Activity" Oh, I'm sorry - it might have been good had it not been so damned boring! You've never seen so many heads bobbing up and down from nodding off in your life! |
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"The Fourth Kind" is supposed to be a sort of continuation of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind".
It features people who have been abucted. Oh, wait... "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" had abducted people too! It is staged as though it is a real documentary with
Milla Jovovich appears in the film's first scene as herself, purporting to have based her performance as Dr. Abigail Emily Tyler on archival
footage from year 2000, of an actual woman, a resident of Nome, Alaska. Jovovich also warns that some o
f what the viewer will see is "extremely disturbing,". By disturbing I'm assuming she means boring. Anyway Tyler's fellow psychologist, Dr. Abel Campos (Elias Koteas), hypnotizes her into remembering
that her late husband, also a shrink, was stabbed to death by an entity whose face she can't recall.
Subsequently, several of Tyler's own patients report sleeplessness and eerie visitations by white owls
at their bedroom windows. One of these patients (Corey Johnson) goes insane after a hypnosis session
with Tyler, killing himself and his family members while a documentary crew shoots videotape. |
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The local sheriff (Will Patton) accuses Tyler of having provoked
the murders through her hypnosis. Tyler later finds that one of her dictation tapes includes an alien
voice, which the doctor brilliantly believes is neither Latin nor Greek. And a second patient (Enzo
Cilenti) begins to levitate, shrieking, in the course of Tyler's trance induction. But suddenly her own daughter is abducted. Yeah... right. Anyway, we are to belive that she is a mother gone nuts. Which fails in so many levels. Mind you I had to see this thing twice to get this much story. Both times I fell asleep in
different parts of the film - but together I think I've seen most of it. What does that tell you? "The Fourth Kind" uses post production seffects to give is a degraded look as if aliens are interfering with the recording. More than likely, the aliens are using the film to bore the world to submission! --GEOFFREY BURTON
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