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It's an interesting meta-textual experiment, but that doesn't in itself make for an interesting movie, or a suspenseful one. There are things to like about it, but the whole doesn't really seem equal to the sum of its parts.

[The] ostensible archival footage proves so clunky and transparently phony that the entire gimmick collapses.

If there were a low point of viral movie marketing last decade, consider "The Fourth Kind" the Marianas Trench. The title refers to four levels of alien interaction, and the pedestrian plotting on display proved Steven Spielberg stopped at the right one.

The eerie-jumpy bits simply don't pan out satisfyingly or convincingly.

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.