Salt Lake Tribune Review
In this otherwise routine alien-abduction thriller, director
Olatunde Osunsanmi works overtime trying to convince us it's all true -- from actress
Milla Jovovich breaking the fourth wall to give the opening disclaimer that what follows is based on actual events, complete with the "real" video diaries of Jovovich's character, Alaska psychologist Abigail Tyler. "What you believe is yours to decide," she tells the audience. I believe that the story, in which Dr. Tyler's patients report strange nocturnal events, is a cut-rate "X-Files" rehash cleverly dressed up with the trappings of supposedly "real" footage a la "The Blair Witch Project" or "Paranormal Activity." The razzle-dazzle fails to hide the lack of real shocks or real emotions from the blank Jovovich.
-- Sean P. Means
The rundown: A psychologist (
Milla Jovovich) learns of alien abductors in this strained thriller, which employs so-called "real" video footage to augment its bogus contentions. 98 minutes. (SPM)
Synopsis: 1n 1972, a scale of measurement was established for alien encounters. When a UFO is sighted, it is called an encounter of the first kind. When evidence is collected, it is known as an encounter of the second kind. When contact is made with extraterrestrials, it is the third kind. The next level, abduction, is the fourth kind. This encounter has been the most difficult to document-until now. Set in modern-day Nome, Alaska, where--mysteriously since the 1960s--a disproportionate number of the population has been reported missing every year. Despite multiple FBI investigations of the region, the truth has never been discovered. Here in this remote region, psychologist Dr. Abigail Tyler began videotaping sessions with traumatized patients and unwittingly discovered some of the most disturbing evidence of alien abduction ever documented.
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