+ Worst Movie of the Year
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| This poster for Olatunde Osunsanmi's The Fourth Kind educates the average Joe Schmo as to the meaning of its title |
A series of patients all tell their psychologist of experiences with freakish owls. People start disappearing, soon also levitating! - Something is very wrong in Nome, Alaska.
The Fourth Kind is a found footage turkey of epic proportions: It is complete in its ineptness, which, at the film's best moments, is sort of amusing. It mixes what it insists are true recordings (don't believe it) with dramatizations in which it reminds us continually of the actors' names, which is a fairly idiotic ploy. Especially since it is backed up here by a barrage of incompetence in the fields of acting as well as the technical and visual side of the film. There are also not really any effects in The Fourth Kind that might redeem it in some way.
The Fourth Kind is written and directed by American Olatunde Osunsanmi (Bates Motel (2016-17)), whose second feature it is, with Terry Robbins (The Cavern (2005)) contributing story elements. It does not seem to be based on anything real in relation to its alien diagnosis of a community that it misrepresents; the only authentic element in the film is its use of names of actually deceased people, which qualifies The Fourth Kind as morally reprehensible, besides being just plain awful. Its title is inspired by the delineations of alien contact as defined by 'UFO professor' J. Allen Hynek. Osunsanmi also acts in the film, portraying a tired journalist. The Fourth Kind is insanely stupid.
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Listen to a piece from the film's score here
Cost: 10 mil. $
Box office: 47.7 mil. $
= Big hit
[The Fourth Kind premiered 24 October (Screamfest Festival, Hollywood) and runs 98 minutes. The screenplay was on the 2008 Blcklst, a list of the most liked unproduced scripts in Hollywood. Shooting took place in Bulgaria, including capital Sofia, in California and in British Columbia, Canada. The film opened #4, behind new release A Christmas Carrol, holdover hit Michael Jackson's This Is It and new release The Men Who Stare at Goats, to a 12.2 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it fell from the top 5 in its second week and grossed 25.4 mil. $ (53.2 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were Japan with 5 mil. $ (10.5 %) and the UK with 3.7 mil. $ (7.8 %). Roger Ebert gave the film 1½ stars, translating to a notch better than this review. Nome, Alaska residents were angered by their representation in the film, and Universal paid 20+k $ in a settlement with the angered Alaska news outlets that its marketing misrepresented. The Fourth Kind is rotten at 19 % with a 4 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]
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