This movie is extremely disturbing and the true story is even crazier. Whether you're new to the alien scene or are an experienced UFO hunter this film will keep you on the edge of your seat the entire time. Now time for a story: My friend and I are lovers of the supernatural, the extra terrestrial, and all things horror. We decided, one night, to watch a new (at the time) movie, The Fourth Kind. We rented the DVD and neglected to watch it and, instead, played some videogames. It wasn't until very late that we finally decided to pop the disc in and see the film. We. Were. Terrified. We had studied the events before, and seeing them come to life on our TV really put it into perspective. In the film all abductions happen at a specific time, 3:33 in the morning, and some abductees, trying to block out the bad memories, would see barn owls in their dreams/memories to cope with the reality of seeing aliens. The movie ended, the credits rolled, and my friend and I were huddled together on my bed. We were tired, it was getting late, and I decided to look at my clock... 3:32 am... If that wasn't scary enough I had an odd collection of things on my desk. One part of that collection was, you guessed it, a fake barn owl used for scaring crows away. We didn't sleep until sunrise and that owl has found its place in the attic where it can never scare me again. Very scary and a moment we will never forget.

In this case, of the fourth kind, the cinematic premise that for the viewer will be more credible a fiction that is presented as a documentary than a fiction properly said, seems to fail from the first moment. For the facts are so horrendous and the horror story works so well on its own, that the documentary elements are superfluous; to present the facts as based on actual facts only devalues the story. As for Milla Jovovich, she was probably supposed to look like an actress as bad as those working on this kind of midnight documentary, or really her lack of fright is not fake. But again, any kind of mediocrity could be intentional, to reproduce the docudrama in the most faithful way to its televising reality. The important thing here is that, in the end, beyond all mistakes, the horror tale and its premises, even the psychological drama, are interesting. For what we see is not a direct representation of horror, but rather a shadow of it. And this shadow never reveals itself at all, letting the imagination of the spectator immerse itself in its own horrors. And here, it will then be this spectator, who must extract the supposed reality of fiction, or rather, the true horror of the feigned reality. In short, a good movie, with some conceptual flaws, which however, do not ruin the story.

I wouldn't call myself a conspiracy theorist, but things like this have always interested me. Do I believe in the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligence? Yes. Abductions? Well I'm not sure. I do have to tip my hat to the director though, who did seem to do a proper research into these accounts and possibilities before creating the film. The use of Sumerian, one of the very first languages ever recorded on earth, was quite surprising. One of the most horrifically scary parts about the film is the recordings of the supposed "alien speech" that was accidentally recorded on doctor Tyler's tapes. Deep, grainy and forceful, speaking the Sumerian language. I have not personally researched the events that took place in Nome, but I can neither accept nor deny the possibility of any of the content used in the movie to be real, but it gives you a sense of wonder and interest. I find the movie interesting of course. Entertaining? Not quite as much, the reactions of people are highly exaggerated but hey, I'm not complaining.

This comment is based only on the first few minutes because I couldn't sit through the rest of it.It poses as a real story, with Mila Jovovich introducing herself as an actress who plays the part of a psychologist and some of what follows may be disturbing and it's all God's truth.I could barely concentrate on her pretty face and girlish voice because the director kept cutting from one sentence to the next, and provided Jovovich with a background of a constantly moving series of tree trunks. Makes for a great visual after effect. (I'm a psychologist too.) But it also makes you wonder whether the director and editor were spaced out themselves.In the next few minutes, one slice of baloney neatly follows another. The first "witness" we see is a harrowed middle-aged woman overly made up to look ghoulish and who has been told never to blink while she narrates her part of the story. We next see Jovovich being hypnotized by another psychologist, which is at least an interesting idea, but the camera moves in a leisurely circle around her, sometimes with the image being blotted out completely by sunshine streaming through the office window.None of this suggests "a true story." It suggests a production in which Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" was an inspiration but which has succumbed to all the current fads of fast editing and constantly moving cameras that is a legacy from MTV.Some might gawk at it. I just winced.