Close encounters of The Fourth Kind: Do you believe in aliens?
Actress Milla Jovovich approaches the screen and speaks directly to the audience, claiming that everything in The Fourth Kind is backed up by actual video and audio, and is a dramatization of something truly real. We are then encouraged to believe what we want to believe, and thus, the most pretentiously tedious “thriller” of the year begins.
The Fourth Kind is plagued by an unyielding determination to make the audience “believe”. It transfers between an interview with director Olatunde Osunsanmi and Dr. Abigail Taylor (on who the film is based), a dramatized story arc in which Jovovich plays Taylor, and split-screens used to show actual footage alongside the performances.
Weeks after “Paranormal Activity” managed to evoke dread by making the fake seem real, The Fourth Kind presents the complete opposite. The footage meant to enhance data only falters the film, as the split-screen tactics overstay their welcome fairly soon into the running time.
Those who take the footage shown as concrete evidence of alien encounters will probably buy into the entire ruse The Fourth Kind carries in its bag of tricks. If the contrary, then The Fourth Kind will do nothing for you rather than bore and trail along on a thrill-less route to nowhere.
The burning question that The Fourth Kind wants to sear into the audience’s mindset is whether or not alien abduction is a real occurrence. Although, after the movie fails as both a fact-based study and a fast-paced thriller, I believe the more important question is, why should I care?`
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