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The Fourth Kind |  | Actors: Milla Jovovich, Will Patton, Corey Johnson, Enzo Cilenti, Elias Koteas
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Rating:  125 reviews
Sales Rank: 1860
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Running Time: 98 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 025192040559
UPC: 025192040559
EAN: 0025192040559
ASIN: B003102JDC
Theatrical Release Date: 2009
Release Date: March 16, 2010
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Product Description
A THRILLER INVOLVING AN ONGOING UNSOLVED MYSTERY IN ALASKA, WHERE ONE TOWN HAS SEEN AN EXTRAORDINARY NUMBER OF UNEXPLAINED DISAPPEARANCES DURING THE PAST 40 YEARS AND THERE ARE ACCUSATIONS OF A FEDERAL COVER UP.
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Nome, Alaska: the edge of the world. What better place for the extraterrestrials to conduct their fiendish abduction experiments? Or so the makers of The Fourth Kind insist, in their grim attempt to reveal the truth about these mysterious disappearances. You know the movie means business when actress Milla Jovovich (as herself, without makeup, even) strides toward the camera in the opening moments and introduces things by warning us that we are about to see and hear actual tapes from psychotherapy sessions in which patients recover repressed memories. We might find it disturbing. Yes, but isn't that why we're watching the movie? Director Olatunde Osunsanmi soon appears onscreen himself, interviewing the real psychologist whom Jovovich plays, and throughout the film there are rough-looking videos of real people freaking out during hypnosis sessions--and even a bit of alien screeching caught on audio tape. Yep, it's all real, except it's all fake. The Fourth Kind has an ingenious marketing idea, which is to breathlessly convince the audience they are seeing actual footage of the supposed events, even to the point of playing the video excerpts next to the studio-shot scenes with actors. After a while, you realize that's all the movie has: the audience's willingness to believe there's a ghost of a chance this might have happened. As a horror movie, the thing is clinical and detached, and when you've figured out the bogusness of the conceit, that doesn't leave much. Elias Koteas and Will Patton join Jovovich in the heated story--or should we say, reconstructions of actual events. Aw, phooey. --Robert Horton
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 This is a great film. Is it really a true story? March 19, 2010
Almost Home (undisclosed)
18 out of 22 found this review helpful
Ok, let's start by saying that all the people bashing this film for being "based on actual events" have apparently not seen a horror film since and including Tobe Hooper's epic "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre." Ever since horror films have used that label as a gimmick. That is all it is. Get over it. The Blair Witch doesn't exist. Kate and Mika from "Paranormal Activity" are alive and well. New York is not digging out from the Cloverfield monster. No humans died filming "Cannibal Holocaust." Get it? I digress.
The Fourth Kind is one of the most finely crafted thriller/horror films I have seen in a long time. The mix of "real" and "recreated" scenes is done really well. This film also succeeds in an area where so many have fallen flat: The Fourth Kind is actually scary. Imagine, and with a PG-13 rating and everything. The performances are well done. The special effects while minimal have terrific impact. This film does require suspension of disbelief and that seems to be where a lot of people get stuck. If you need to see everything that happens then you probably will not like The Fourth Kind. If you have a great imagination and you are able to play pretend for an hour and a half then you will get a big payoff. Also, as with most films, the less you know going in to the movie the better. Five stars.
Caught Me Completely Off Guard May 20, 2010
darklordzden (Australia)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Nome, Alaska, October 2000: Dr. Abigail Tyler (Milla Jovovich) is a psychologist ministering to the citizens of Nome, a secluded Alaskan town which is only accessible by air. Still mourning the recent death of her husband, Tyler spends her days dealing with an apparent epidemic of insomnia amongst the town's citizens - but as Tyler delves deeper into the nature of her patient's sleep-related maladies, she begins to notice a disturbing number of similarities and correlations between their stories. Why are they all waking at 3:33am? And why are they all seeing owls outside their windows? As time draws on, she enlists the aid of colleague Dr. Abel Compos (Elias Koteas) and slowly begins piecing together fragments of information which suggest a nightmarish truth.
I'll admit it, "The Fourth Kind" caught me completely off guard; I rented it expecting a mildly entertaining mid-budget thriller fashioned after the likes of The X-Files: The Complete Collector's Edition and Steven Spielberg Presents Taken and instead experienced one of the most profoundly scary films that I've seen in a long time. This is no small praise when you consider that I've read a fair number of books and seen a fair number of films and TV shows about UFOs, aliens and abduction phenomena and am completely skeptical about the whole thing (the hard cold figures of Drake's equation negates the possibility of alien contact as far as I'm concerned).
While it's true that this film works through every Whitley Strieberesque cliché in the abduction playbook (screen memories, subliminally buried recollections accessible only through hypnosis, white lights and, hell, even some allusions to the work of Erich Von Daniken), director Olatunde Osunsami innovatively uses a gamut of structural, editing, split-screen and soundtrack techniques in order to draw the viewer into a tapestry of "dramatically reconstructed events" which appear alongside "archival footage" on which the reconstruction is allegedly based; the net effect of this tinkering with 'levels of reality' is a palpably eerie sense of authenticity which pervades the film and only serves to reinforce the chills that materialise. Situations and clichés that you've seen a million times before in a million different movies and TV shows are suddenly thrown into stark relief and become deeply frightening again.
Originally, I was only intending to give this film four stars, but it really did get into my head (and impress me with it's innovative structuring) and, frankly, it takes a lot to unnerve and impress me these days, so it gets a round five stars. Seriously, this a film which is both vastly scarier than (and vastly superior too) the massively over-hyped and deeply pedestrian Paranormal Activity as well as virtually every other horror film in recent years.
...And if you consider yourself a jaded old cynic and think that this film can't get into your head, I issue you the following challenge - watch this alone, late at night, with the lights out and the sound way up...and then discover what an interesting prospect going to sleep on your own in the dark becomes.
Eerily creepy March 31, 2010
Another movie buff
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This movie scared the daylights out of me, the "achived" or "real" footage is disturbing. Now this is coming from some one that gets scared stupid when it comes to alien stuff. When the claimed "actual" footage was shown all of the hairs on my body were standing on end and for quite some time afteward. This movie is desputed as being fake and probably is, but honestly they had me sold for it being real. One things for sure hopefully I don't wake up at 3:30 A.M remebering this movie. Beyond a doubt I would recommend this to anyone. As for watching this one over and over, I will not be watching this one again not because it wasn't good but because it scared the hell out of me. One thing I would recommend is watching this one during the day and give yourself enough time to pick it apart after seeing it, unless you enjoy those really vivid dreams/nightmares.
The Fourth Kind.......(it happened to me) May 31, 2010
Pamela E.
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
For many years I have dealt with the fact of being abducted as a child.
For many years the events are with me daily. Funny how the images and feelings enter in during the activities of a day. There is a great feeling of fear involved when I try to piece the encounters together. The strange "knowing" when they are around me....
My grown daughter,my only child to whom I share many things, told me about the movie,"The Fourth Kind". We decided I would not watch it alone. it just seemed to scary. Well, I could not stop thinking about the similarities she was describing. There are parts of this movie that sounded like what happens to me! Through video On Demand, during a bright sunny morning, I watched the movie.
I has been week since, I am so terrified. Sleeping is not the greatest.
It is very hard to explain the terror and the not knowing everything that happens to me. For 20 years I have thought maybe hypnosis would help me and maybe I would not have to deal with this anymore, but after watching this movie, I will NOT consider hypnosis.
I know I have experienced very unearthly beings. That is enough to try and digest, to know more is more than I want to know.
I am 52 years old and have had encounters since I was 8 years old. They seem to keep tabs on me.
If you believe me or not makes no difference to me. I know and God knows and that is the way it is. I pray for protection.
I believe this film to be true and some parts very real.
Worth the time.... March 7, 2010
Marc Barney (The Bible Belt)
14 out of 19 found this review helpful
Great movie. My time is money, so anytime i go to a movie not knowing what to expect and i get the crap scared out of me, it's a great movie. left a lasting impression, and i still talk about it with my friends. To me, that makes it worth the price of admission. Don't listen to all the TOOLS who tried to talk smack about it. They are typing reviews from thier parents basements, with way too much time on thier hands. Rent it, buy it, whatever. It's pretty cool, you won't regret it. Look at it this way, i'm buying the blu-ray the day it comes out, and i only buy blu-rays that i KNOW i'll watch over and over through the years.
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