The Fourth Kind Critic Reviews

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.Read the full review

Too often, The Fourth Kind makes the paranormal look disappointingly normal.Read the full review

The result is not entirely uninteresting, but it suffers from some ill-advised decisions. In fact, the film's "hook" may be its greatest detraction.Read the full review

Terminally awkward in the way it meshes fake real footage with faker fake footage. It isn’t required to be convincing as fact, but it doesn’t convince as fiction, either.Read the full review

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").Read the full review

May be humorless, paranoid nonsense, but its biggest failure is its inability to scare.Read the full review

Combines purported raw case study footage with dramatic "recreations" to unsuccessful effect.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

They try to get 'real' about strange occurrences. Instead they get ludicrous.Read the full review