Kill Theory

There are only two options: by 6am only one remains alive or all will die.

Standing the classic "The Most Dangerous Game" on its ear, ten recent college grads find themselves at the mercy of one of those now ubiquitous pre-recorded-distorted-voice interlopers who forces them into playing kill-or-be-killed with each other. Unfortunately none of the characters develops beyond the first dimension and the cast of bargain basement actors is unable to elicit much in the way of sympathy. When one 20-something runs around the house yelling "This is bad! This is really, really bad!" it's hard not to agree--on so many levels.

On the plus side, the story is allowed to follow through to a satisfactory and perhaps even logical conclusion. If there's a sequel in KT's future the writer might want to substitute carbon copy college kids with Bill Maher, Rush Limbaugh, Taylor Swift, Sarah Palin, the Dalai Lama, Jack White, Glenn Beck and the current cast of SNL. Now THAT would be worth watching.

The Fourth Kind

Not too bad if not taken seriously. The pretense that it's based on real events with actual archival footage is suffocating by the end, however. The acting in the "real" footage is obvious and, well, not very good. Good chance the director made an initial attempt at filming the movie with unknown actors. At some point a producer said "Whoa! This is good stuff but let's get some actors who can act!" Then he wound up with two films with two sets of actors. Later that night he was visited by an owl that told him "Splice the two together! Splice the two together!" Like the X-Files always claimed: The Truth Is Out There. Just not in this movie.