Weekend Movie Forecast: Precious or The Men Who Stare at Goats

Opening to mostly negative reviews, which doesn't really deter audiences from this type of paranormal horror movie anyway, is Fourth Kind. Milla Jovovich plays an Alaskan psychologist who begins investigating a series of alien abductions that have been taking place over the last 40 years. Scott Tobias from the A.V. Club says: "Mixing hundreds of hours of documentary audio and video footage (apply quote marks where applicable) with dramatic reenactments (quote marks there, too), The Fourth Kind follows Jovovich’s Tyler as she tries to get to the bottom of her patients’ experiences and her husband’s death while deflecting doubters like Will Patton’s grizzled detective. Elias Koteas plays the audience surrogate, another therapist who’s skeptical of her claims, but open to persuasion.

"But from the opening scene, which has Jovovich doing her best Rod Serling impression, The Fourth Kind is terminally awkward in the way it meshes fake real footage with faker fake footage. It isn’t required to be convincing as fact, but it doesn’t convince as fiction, either."