Movie Review:The 4th Kind

The Fourth Kind starts out with Dr. Abigail Taylor, a psychiatrist who witnessed her husband’s death in her own bed. Yet, she couldn’t see the culprit.
She searched to find out what her husband could have done to be killed and it led her to many disappearance cases in Nome, Alaska.
As she worked with her clients in Nome, she noticed that these clients in particular had two things in common. They would wake up at 3:33a.m and see an abnormal looking owl staring at them.
Dr. Taylor tried to find out how her husbands death was related in correlation to these cases in Nome, and she soon found out that it was more than what she bargained for.
As things turned ugly, the police began to suspect her of crimes that she didn’t commit and can only be explained by things of the supernatural.
In the end it ended up with her experience with the Fourth Kind…
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When I first walked into the movie theater to watch the screening for The Fourth Kind, I was eager and exited. But when the movie was over, I was left speechless with a slight tinge of dissatisfaction.
I have mixed feelings about this movie.
I can only describe The Fourth Kind with one word; disturbing. It is definitely not what I had in mind for an abduction movie with real scenes.
It played on my psyche for a while to the point to where I couldn’t sleep comfortably at night, four days after watching it.
In the movie they did what you call a double screen. On one side they showed the actual video footage and voice recordings and on the other side showed a comparison with a reenactment.
The creators of this movie wanted the audience to believe in its authenticity.
And that’s how it gets into your mind. All of the things you do not expect to see on non-edited real video footage were there. From possessions to massacres; it was all put out there on the big screen.
I think that all the actors were spot on. The way they played the cop as an aggressive man in denial was excellent. And the way they portrayed Dr. Taylor as a mother was indeed believable, especially when her worst fears came true.
I could really see the fear in the actor’s eyes, in comparison to the actual video.
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The over all MPAA rating for the film, was Pg-13, but if they took account for the impact of the way the movie affects the mind, it should’ve been raised higher.
It’s definitely not a movie an adult should take a child to see, it is not for the faint of heart, and it is certainly not for those who are easily paranoid.
My advice for anyone that wants to see this movie is to destroy all of your expectations for it. The angle this movie takes is not what you’ll expect in the long run and it has a shocking ending.
My over all rating is a 3.5 out of 5.
It is a hard movie to enjoy; my heart wrenched at the emotional scenes, scared at the disturbing scenes, and was creeped out from the owl.
Yet, the movie served it purpose; to let the audience witness events that cannot be explained by normal scientific means. The Fourth Kind is informal and it makes me want to questions some beliefs and research some things myself, but I do not want to get caught in all that.
Maybe the creators of this movie wanted to make believers out of the audience, or maybe the creators wanted to scare us, who knows.

But I know one thing; I’m never going to see this movie ever again.