'Fourth Kind': She Can See Aliens From Her House

Instead of starting his latest alien abduction thriller with the standard "based on true events" disclaimer, director Milla Jovovich invites her to speak to the audience right away, informing us that what we are going to witness is a combination of staged reenactments and never-before-seen archival material. She adds with a deadpan menace that it might also be unsettling.

However, The Fourth Kind is a movie adaptation of a chain email scam: A narrative of a string of well-publicized disappearances in the isolated Alaskan town of Nome that the FBI was investigating has a basis in reality. Add a stunning twist from the edge of plausibility.

(Aliens took them hostage!) Let's now support your narrative with a fictitious, but ostensibly credible, eyewitness (psychologist Abigail Tyler, portrayed by Jovovich in those reenactments, and by an unidentified actress in the "archival" footage as the "real" doctor). The only thing left to do is make arrangements for a reliable person to deliver the message—perhaps your aunt or a coworker. or a movie star in this instance.

Osunsanmi does a great job maintaining the charade, and some of his ploys—such as masking the purportedly authentic police tape of a murder-suicide, presumably to avoid prurient accusations—are well-considered. However, the main source of credibility in The Fourth Kind is probably inadvertent reenactment speech, which is so horribly stiff that the grainy "reality" film looks remarkably lifelike in contrast.

In the end, the overworked script seeps into even those purportedly authentic pieces, primarily during sequences in which the director himself interviews the "archival" Dr. Tyler for what seems to be a Chapman University campus television program. Osunsanmi attended the Chapman University, which is located near Hollywood, but he never explains why the fake documentary interviews took place there in the film, even though the university's emblem is clearly displayed in the lower third of the screen. It seems to be little more than a wish for a cameo a la M. Night Shyamalan.

(In fact, there's a weak twist in the movie's climactic sequence that would certainly make The Sixth Sense director blush. However, Osunsanmi significantly overplays his hand in the staging, dramatically drawing back the camera in a way that is inappropriate for the type of documentary interview he is supposedly showing.)

Let's suppose for the sake of argument that the director does not believe that a generation that grew up watching The Blair Witch Project will believe his hokum. Is there still excitement in the film when the attempt at authenticity falters? Yes, occasionally. Ironically, the "archival" material that is most plainly edited makes for some of the scariest moments—like when Dr. Tyler hypnotizes patients she believes have had alien encounters and records the outcome.The videotapes are severely distorted as the abductees repeat the episodes—speaking in tongues and levitating—while the jumbled screen shows just enough of their agony to be truly horrifying. It appears that the aliens don't want a record of what they've done.

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