They try to get 'real' about strange occurrences. Instead they get ludicrous.
di Robert Abele The Los Angeles Times
The vogue for verité spooks continues with "The Fourth Kind," but unlike the understated stylistic rigor of the first-person-fashioned "Paranormal Activity," this alien abduction showpiece about unexplained events in Nome, Alaska, doth protest its bona fides too much.
Presented as a cinematic re-creation of traumatic, mysterious occurrences -- suicides, stalking owls, demonic-sounding recordings -- surrounding sleep-deprived patients of psychologist Abigail Tyler (Milla Jovovich), writer-director Olatunde Osunsanmi attempts an Orson Welles-like confluence of "real" and imagined that might have worked had he gotten out of the way more, literally and figuratively. [...]
di Robert Abele, articolo completo (1530 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 6 novembre 2009