“There are plenty of reasons to despise this film; for its insensitivity, for its awkwardness, for its contempt of the audience, for its exploitive tone and for its overall glacial dullness – I kept hoping for a real UFO to shoot a beam through the ceiling of the theatre and take me away from this dreadful movie,” reports John Tebbutt for Fast Forward Weekly (ffwdweekly.com).

“On my way to the theatre to view The Fourth Kind, I saw a man urinating on a bush beside the parking lot. What I saw next, on the movie screen, wasn’t much better,” reports Tebbutt.

“The gimmick surrounding The Fourth Kind is that it contains supposedly “real footage” of something vaguely extraterrestrial, supernatural or just spooky - The film begins with Milla Jovovich speaking directly to the audience, explaining that she is actress Milla Jovovich and that she’s in a movie,” reports Tebbutt. ”Oh yeah, she also says that the character she plays, Dr. Abigail Tyler, is totally a real person, and that person is in the movie too, as herself — that’s how real the upcoming real footage is. So like, watch out, ’cuz it’s totally scary ’n’ shit.”

“Then we see director Olatunde Osunsanmi (as himself) interviewing the “real” Abigail Tyler, and if she’s a genuine psychologist, as this film claims, then she has no business practising psychology - She violates doctor-patient confidentiality by allowing footage of her sessions to be included in this film,” reports Tebbutt. ”In one tape, a hypnotized patient becomes upset and kicks over a lamp. The next day, she hypnotizes a different patient and he vomits. It does not occur to Dr. Tyler to stop hypnotizing people, so her sessions keep getting worse.”

Read Tebbutt’s full review here