'The Fourth Kind' slightly realistic, very disturbing

"The Fourth Kind," a new film is the tagline of a new film, loosely based on real events that will certainly make a viewer question the validity of alien abduction. The film opens with a message from Milla Jovovich, who explains that the film is part reenactments of the events and part actual footage, some of which she claims to be deeply disturbing. And disturbing it proves to be. Throughout the film, real footage and recordings of the events, along with interviews with psychologist for Dr. Abigail Tyler and director Olatunde Osunsanmi and "reenactments" of the events, are spliced together to create an unsettling thriller. The film depicts the story of Abbey Tyler (Jovovich), who has certainly seen better days. Her recently murdered husband, Will, has left her a rattled mother of two (her son is angstly, borderlining on bratty). Tyler is determined to finish her husband's work, a psychological study of residents of Nome, Alaska who have been experiencing unsettling nightmares. But Nome itself has been suffering from an unusual number of missing persons between the 1960s until the time of the films events in 2000. The patients that Tyler sees, who both meet tragic demises, claim to see owls staring at them during nighttime. Under hypnosis, the patients precede to enter into psychotic states, which are accompanied with real footage of the sessions (isn't that breeching some sort of patient confidentiality clause?). Through the sessions, they discover that it's not an owl they see, rather a creature beyond this world. Along with a fellow colleague Dr. Abel Campos (Elias Koteas), Tyler proceeds to investigate the strange occurrences with her patients, which results in dramatic conclusions. In an interview with the film's director, the "real" Dr. Tyler, a haunted looking woman with big blue eyes tells the people watching the film to believe what they want to believe regarding alien abductions, but the footage does not lie. And she is right, as the acting is at best only marginally better than what would be included in a Discovery Channel documentary. The film's supposedly "real" footage proves to be the star. But certain critical moments of the film that would convert a skeptic to a believer are grainy, creating a more unsettling feeling to the film. The grainy film footage seems to be a popular medium now, riding on the coat tails of "Paranormal Activity." Is the film based an actual events? Does a real Dr. Abigail Tyler exist in middle-of-nowhere Alaska? Whatever is "real" in the film, one thing is for sure. It is certainly a creepy film that is filled with a few good scares and makes the viewer question what is the reality of the story.