The Fourth Kind

The Fourth Kind (2009)

  • 19% of critics liked it
    (111 reviews)

  • 43% of users liked it
    (169,962 ratings)

Set in the fall of 2000 and purportedly based on actual events, The Fourth Kind stars Milla Jovovich as Dr. Abigail Tyler, a Nome, Alaska-based psychotherapist whose videotaped sessions with her patients offer the most compelling evidence of alien abduction ever documented. Elias Koteas and Will… More

Play Trailer

PG-13,
Directed By
Written By
Olatunde Osunsanmi
Genres
Mystery & Suspense
In Theaters
Nov 6, 2009 Wide
Universal Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Ian Buckwalter, NPR

    When the director divides the screen into quadrants for his big finish, the effect is just laughable -- but then by that point, the movie is too.

  • Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York

    Unfortunately, none of the subsequent noise is all that scary, and the striving for Paranormal Activity's buzz is shameless.

  • A.O. Scott, At the Movies

    [A] dull, clumsy little movie.

  • Michael Phillips, At the Movies

    No, no, no, no.

  • Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News

    Badly acted by everyone (including the director, Olatunde Osunsanmi, who appears onscreen), this insipid jumble's idea of fright is incessant screaming.

Read all 25 critic reviews

See more critic ratings and reviews on Rotten Tomatoes

Fresh (60% or more critics rated the movie positively)

Rotten (59% or fewer critics rated the movie positively)

Featured Audience Ratings

  • Universal D


    The actors do passably in this and the direction's not terrible, but the concept and the writing will make you puke, puke like that episode of The Family Guy where everyone pukes. In essence, the devil/exorcist movie franchise adopted towards aliens. Next.

  • Carlos M


    It is impossible to take this any seriously, a stupid fictional film that insults the audience trying so hard to make you believe that everything it tells is real - but the hoax is unconvincing, the screen splitting gimmick is ridiculous and Mila Jovovich a terrible actress.

  • Christopher H


    The movie starts out with Milla Jovovich and the director telling the viewer that everything that you are about to see is a hundred percent true. The PSA-style beginning highlights the ultimate problem with this film: it tries way too hard to convince the audience that the story… More

  • Directors C


    It has some built in scares and although you lose a bit of interest in the second half of the film it still manages to be quite astonishing with the help of actual footage. Whether the footage was edited or not however, The Fourth Kind was put together pretty well.

  • Alexander D


    Occasional use of the "found footage" concept makes for a sometimes disturbing, but otherwise dull, psychological/science fiction thriller about alien attack. And this is no CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND. When I Googled "The Fourth Kind", the fourth result… More

Read all 20 featured audience ratings

Also available on

UltraViolet Retailers

Other Retailers

Subscription Services

Not Available
Not Available

Trailers & Clips