2.0
out of 100
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You don't have to believe in far-fetched tales of mysterious beams of light and alien abductions to get caught up in The Fourth Kind.
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Too often, The Fourth Kind makes the paranormal look disappointingly normal.
Even the most gullible auds will be challenged to buy into the picture, billed as "based on the actual case studies" and, in any case, rendered rather boring by writer-director Olatunde Osunsanmi ("The Cavern").
May be humorless, paranoid nonsense, but its biggest failure is its inability to scare.
Combines purported raw case study footage with dramatic "recreations" to unsuccessful effect.
The Fourth Kind is a pseudo-documentary like "Paranormal Activity" and "The Blair Witch Project." But unlike those two, which just forge ahead with their home video cameras, this one encumbers its flow with ceaseless reminders that it is a dramatization of real events.
They try to get 'real' about strange occurrences. Instead they get ludicrous.
Mr. Osunsanmi's chutzpah exceeds his skill.
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M. Night Shyamalan Lite. And not in a good way.
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Not an E.T. in the bunch
