The Fourth Kind
The Fourth Kind is supposedly based on true events but nothing seems to be believable or true about the movie to say the least. It could really be pain to sit through the entire that runs for about an hour and a half. It simply feels waste of time, effort and money of course. Is creativity losing its way or are filmmakers falling short of finding good meaningful stories to present to the audience?
The Fourth Kind seemingly wanted to be one of its kind but unfortunately the film has failed to please the audience and the critics as well. The film has gone overboard to bring in some realism but in the process has lost the actual purpose of keeping the audience interested.
The movie is about humans who have seen extraterrestrials or UFOs. These people give an elaborate description about their alien and UFO experiences, which is endless and the audience will lose patience listening to their stories and will get tired waiting for some thrill and entertainment. Many unanswered questions such as why the keeps staring into people’s windows and why the aliens chose to take away so many people?
These questions are left unanswered, probably the director got carried away by the stories that people narrated and he left the answers to the people’s imagination. The owl was mostly used to give a touch of mystery but sadly the poor fellow was not given any meaningful role to play, he just sits and stares into the windows like a dumbo. The audience might sympathise with actors and the owls involved in this film.
Well coming to the story it is about the real incidents that took place in Nome where people were disappearing and the psychologist Abigail Tyler (Milla Jovovich) who gets patients complaining of strange incidents; her patients’ report of waking up as early as 3 am and the owls watching them through the windows.
The director of the Olatunde Osunsanmi film has taken too much pain to make the movie look real and each scene bears an archived footage but alas! If only the director had put all his efforts in making a better cinema rather than proving the facts or painstakingly trying to show that it was all real. And this realism is never ending, which will test the audience’ patience to a great extent.
Milla Jovovich in The Fourth Kind
If it is real it need not be proved so hard, just a mention of ‘based on true story’ while rolling the credits would have saved so much time, effort and money. It is like hammering the audience with the true facts.
But Milla Jovovich’s acting deserves a mention, whatever she has been asked to do she has done it with honesty but unfortunately for her she has been cast in the wrong movie. But if you read the article written by Kyle Hopkins, which discloses the mystery that the FBI investigated a few cases in Nome and came to the conclusion that too much alcohol consumption and the cold climate were the connecting factors and the people who disappeared had fallen in to the Snake River.
Well if this testimony makes any sense or logic then screaming out aloud that it is based on true facts is actually not true. The rest is left to audience’s discretion; Believe it or not.
| Film | The Fourth Kind |
|---|---|
| Cast | Milla Jovovich as Abbey Tyler Will Patton as Sheriff August Hakeem Kae-Kazim as Awolowa Odusami Corey Johnson as Tommy Fisher Enzo Cilenti as Scott Stracinsky Elias Koteas as Abel Campos Eric Loren as Deputy Ryan Mia McKenna-Bruce as Ashley Tyler |
| Director | Olatunde Osunsanmi |
| Producer | Paul Brooks Joe Carnahan |
| Writer | Olatunde Osunsanmi Terry Lee Robbins |
| Runtime | 1 Hour 38 Minutes |
| Rating | 2.5/5 |
Posted on Sunday, November 8th, 2009 at 4:40 pm