DIRECTED BY: Olatunde Osunsanmi
STARRING: Milla Jovovich, Will Patton

THE PLOT: Whether it’s horseriding, ice sculpting or fast cars, when a movie about one of our key interests comes along, we take notice. Unfortunately, alien abduction doesn’t interest me in the slightest. Following the example set by movies like he Blair Witch Project, Paranormal Activity and Cloverfield, The Fourth Kind presents supposedly on-the-scene documentary footage and combines it with dramatised re-enactments by a collection of Hollywood actors. This movie flits continually back and fourth between documentary footage and dramatisations even occasionally running the two side by side at times.

WORTH SEEING? Just in case any of you actually believe this is based on a true story, I’ve done my research and sadly, it isn’t. Jovovich may claim that she’s playing a real person in a movie based on true events, but there is no Dr Abigail Tyler. Ultimately, he Fourth Kind is about as thought-provoking and engaging as watching an accountant do long division.

VERDICT: Nice idea, but nothing to write home about.