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They lost me when... [SPOILERS]


...the guy shot his wife and children - quite slowly I must add - and with so many police guns on his head, waiting for the clear shot etc, nobody shoots to stop him.

Up to that point I was about 40% buying the "footage" could be real, even though the face of the supposedly real woman telling the story was way too picked up for a horror movie, rather than some average woman's face.

Not knowing anything about "The Fourth Kind", at that point I just had to confirm it was a mockumentary. Looked it up at wikipedia. Yep. Meh.

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I thought he shot the kid(s) first and then shot the wife. The police didn't have a clear shot because he was holding the wife in front of him. Anyway if this were real footage, there's no way the police would allow it to be used in the first place so that right there shows it was fake along with all the other "archived" footage.

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Yeah that part bothered me too. He shot the wife first, but had time to turn her around and say "I love you," and pull up the gun. Let's assume that even if he was able to kill her, he would be down in seconds, not have time to turn and shoot his kids.

Generally speaking the police were some of the worst I've seen in movies. Like, arresting Dr. Tyler with 4 witnesses and a live victim who all presumably tell the same story. Or placing her on house arrest and not letting her leave the house without things like...a trial...or a reason to keep her on house arrest...And taking her son away, even though there was an officer who can say no one entered of left the house and saw the spaceship. While that may be hard to believe for most people, you have several credible sources who tell similar stories. Including one of your officers.

But the worst was letting her continue to practice even though she was under a psychologist's care and believed her husband was murdered when people know he committed suicide, including her son.

It was an interesting concept, but they went to such lengths to try to convince the audience it was real but really dropped the ball on some of the realism. Shockingly not on the alien part...

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You were buying the footage despite the fact that Jovovich explained in the prologue that the 'real' identities had been altered? The film's director is the one conducting the interview (under his real name), it was never intended to be taken as real. It was entirely redundant, basically.

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You were actually thinking the footage could be real at one point. The light's on but no-one's home.



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