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Saturday, August 15, 2009
The Fourth Kind trailer.
It's been awhile since we've had any kind of alien abduction movies (
Fire in the Sky
was nearly seventeen-years ago), so this almost comes off like a new idea. The trailer itself is suitably spooky and cryptic, and I like the idea of having the actress (Mila Jovovich) introducing the trailer out of character. And, best of all, it has one of my favorite character actors,
Elias Koteas. Who would have thought that the man who more or less broke out upon playing Casey Jones in the
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
series would have such a long, varied, and distinguished career? My only carp is that he was killed off in the pilot episode of
Law and Order: Conviction
, preventing any scenes with his quasi-twin Christopher Meloni.
Scott Mendelson
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