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Residents in Alaskan cities report seeing a mysterious owl late at night just before a tragedy strikes in “The Fourth Kind.” |
Prepare to feel slightly conned by “The Fourth Kind.”
Every time something mysterious is about to happen on so-called “archival” video footage, the image goes haywire at just the second it promises to show us a glimpse of an alien presence or of an object floating over a house.
“The Fourth Kind” operates on the harebrained premise that it’s not enough for audiences to merely witness “documented” footage of Alaskan residents recalling alien abductions and painful extraterrestrial colonoscopies while under hypnosis.
No, we also get actors faithfully re-enacting those scenes. Sometimes, director Olatunde Osunsanmi uses a split screen so we can see the “real” UFO abductees screaming in terror on the left, while on the right, we see actors mimicking them down to every wide-eyed shudder and screech.
What’s the point of this exercise, outside of marveling at the ability of the cast to match every spasm and moan of the people in the “authentic” footage? (Read more…)