You know some films that people warn you about and you still watch them to form your own opinion? This is one of them. Stay away for it’s not worth of forming any opinion.
Based on the book by Pittacus Lore, I’m Number Four is about the fourth of the nine special kids who survived the attack on their planet and made it to earth. Once here they blend amongst the others but ugly monsters who destroyed their planet are searching them and killing them one by one. Number Four, John Smith (Alex Pettyfer) has got to know that the third one is dead and now his warrior guardian Henri (Timothy Olyphant) has moved him to
There are some films that you sit though no matter how bad, even endure in the hope that there’d be some payoff in the end but I’m Number Four ain’t one of those. You see warriors from another planet fight planet-traveling monsters and yet don’t feel anything. You look at troubled teen from another world, in the literal sense, trying to blend in and become one of us and you feel nothing. You see a cute girl finding her own spot in the sun by clicking photographs on antiquated cameras rather than being the football jock’s arm candy and you feel nothing. You see a young science nerd dealing with bullies and missing his father, who he believes was abducted by aliens and you feel nothing.
Director D.J. Caruso blows up things like any good Hollywood action flick but this one just bores you to death. What’s scary is that there might a couple of sequels in the making. Watch it if you must but be warned even the popcorn tastes bad.
Rating: 1/5
Cast: Alex Pettyfer, Timothy Olyphant, Dianna Agron, Callan McAuliffe and Teresa Palmer
Screenplay by: Alfred Gough and Miles Millar based on the novel by Pittacus Lore
Directed by: D.J. Caruso
