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Sci-fi thriller “The Fourth Kind,” is a film about psychologist Dr. Abigail Tyler (played by Milla Jovovich), who had patients that were experiencing similar occurrences of abnormal events at night, most notably, seeing an owl and waking up at 3:33am. The film is based on actual unexplained events that occurred in Nome, Alaska. After watching the preview of this film, I was really intrigued to go see it. Being a fan of films such as “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”, “War of the Worlds”, "Signs" and “ET”, I figured I would really enjoy it. But “The Fourth Kind” struggles to scare or intrigue the audience to take the film seriously. At the theater, most of the people that were sitting around me found it humorous, specifically laughing at the ‘actual footage’ side-by-side with reenactments and because of the unnecessary large amount of “The Fourth Kind” director Olatunde Osunsanmi interviewing Dr. Abigail Tyler herself. The film has received many poor reviews but to be honest, I personally enjoyed it. To me, there were some things I really liked about it and other things that just annoyed me. One good thing to say is that the story kept me so interested, that I was glued to my chair and wouldn’t even leave to go to the restroom. But having the reenactments next to the ‘actual footage’ was very annoying, making me feel like I have been abducted with over dramatization. If the film would have just had the story going and then switch to the ‘actual footage’ by its self, and then continue on with the story, then I’m pretty sure there would have been a better chance that the audience would have been screaming instead of laughing. There is also an unnecessary amount of times the words ‘actual audio’, ‘actual footage’, and 'real footage’ appear on the screen. It felt as if "Unsolved Mysteries" made a deal with VH1’s “Pop-up Video” to create a show called “Unsolved Pop-ups” because it is still unsolved why director Olatunde Osunsanmi chose to have so many pop-ups of letting us know that the footage was “REAL”; We get it Olatunde, Milla said it in the beginning of the film, and the pop ups appear nearly every 10 minutes.

If you enjoyed “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”, “War of the Worlds” or “Signs”, or if you believe in UFOs and alien encounters, then it’s worth it to see, but probably best to wait for it to be a rental. When seeing a director in his own film interviewing the victim of the events for an abnormal amount of time throughout the film, that is known as the disappointment for the first time. When seeing an abnormal amount of pop ups appearing upon the screen making the film feel like a TV show called “Unsolved Pop-ups”, that is known as a disappointment for the second time. When laughter occurs because of the many overdramatized side-by-side approaches of ‘actual footage’ meets reenactments, that is the third time. The next level, finding the theater exit, is the fourth kind. This encounter has been the most difficult to document-until now, now that the fact that you have exited the film becoming abducted and having your memory erased, leaving you wondering why you spent money to see the film in the first place.

3 out of 5

Here is a preview for the film...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVRHOhLP-aA

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