Wednesday, April 14, 2010

The Fourth Kind (2009)




In the end, what you believe is yours to decide.

Written and Directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi
Starring: Milla Jovovich, Will Patton, and Elias Koteas

A dramatization of events in Nome, Alaska taking place between October 1st and 9th of 2000, focusing on Dr. Abbey Tyler (Jovovich), a psychologist who believes the town's high rate of missing persons is due to alien abductions.

This film had a pretty cool way to tell the story. Instead of a straightforward dramitzation, it's actually filmed footage of Jovovich and the other actors alonside the "real" footage of the "real" people involved. The reason I put "real" in quotation marks is because Universal Pictures has come out and said outright that the movie is fiction. Simple research can prove that it was all made up, but you forget about that once you really get sucked up into the movie.

Most of what is displayed is very disturbing. There are some scenes that I had to look away from and fast forward through because they were too scary. Trust me, this one will be in my DVD collection.

7/10

Rated PG-13 for violent/disturbing images, some terror, thematic elements and brief sexuality.

Despite the PG-13 rating, I wouldn't recommend this to anybody under 16. It is very scary, and will most likely result in nightmares.

The only feature on the DVD is deleted scenes and trailers for Smokin' Aces 2 and Pirate Radio.

2 comments:

  1. This movie scared the bejeezus out of me. I saw it in the theaters and DESPERATELY needed to know that it was based purely in fiction. Because it really was scary as Hell.

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  2. I didn't like this one. Guess I should rewatch it cause it IS my type of movie.

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