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'Fourth Kind' is a half-baked mess

By GLENN WHIPP
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-The flat-lining, alien-abduction thriller "The Fourth Kind" offers a close encounter that buries an interesting idea under a barrage of gimmicky, carnivallike hokum. The movie's unwieldy mix of degraded pseudo-documentary footage and "Unsolved Mystery"-style re-enactments is as unconvincing as it its distancing, making the small charms of "Paranormal Activity" all the more apparent by comparison.
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The flat-lining, alien-abduction thriller The Fourth Kind offers a close encounter that buries an interesting idea under a barrage of gimmicky, carnivallike hokum. The movie\'s unwieldy mix of degraded pseudo-documentary footage and Unsolved Mystery-style re-enactments is as unconvincing as it its distancing, making the small charms of Paranormal Activity all the more apparent by comparison.