The Fourth Kind (2009)

A good deal of time will be spent trying to determine just how real everything is in The Fourth Kind. Skeptics will have a good time tearing the film apart, while believers will be swayed by the film's presentation. Frankly, without the "based on true events" framing and the video footage of purported real incidents, there's not much here; in other words, if this had been a straight fiction about a doctor and some alien abductions, it would have been a yawner. None of the characters really come to life, and the film spends too much time dangling and withdrawing its details, unable or unwilling to prove or disprove anything; hence, there's very little mystery, and no sequence of events that leads to anything. The horror is too intangible and indefinite to be very terrifying. Regardless, the movie sometimes manages some effective scares and some moody atmosphere, and it may be an effective "check your brain at the door" kind of chiller.