I Am Number Four Movie Review (2/5)
Review by Urban Cine File
It may not be Terminator 2, but Teresa Palmer’s line ‘Hit me with your lemon; I need to power up’ has a certain ring about it. Palmer, wearing black leather, crimped blonde hair and an over-the-top demeanour as Number Six is not the only Australian in this genre film; Callan McAuliffe is darned good as the nerdy UFO-believing Sam, who befriends the film’s protagonist John Smith, played by Alex Pettyfer. There are some good things about this sci-fi teen thriller-cum-creature feature that promises to spawn its own franchise, delivering a combo of scares, cheesy moments and slew of special effects.
Some script elements let it down and it doesn’t rate high in the originality stakes, but director D. J. Caruso keeps it on track and generally speaking it will meet the expectations of its young target market that knows what producer Michael Bay, who specializes in excess, delivers.
Review by Susan Granger
If you’ve ever thought your teenager’s friends were a bit strange, consider that they might be aliens, as in from another solar system. In this movie, nine branded extraterrestrials from the planet Lorien fled to Earth after their civilization was annihilated by the evil Mogadorians, who resemble a tattooed, black leather-clad biker-gang from “The Matrix,” and who are engaged in sequential intergalactic pursuit. When Number Three is hunted down and killed in a jungle, Number Four, John Smith (dimpled British actor Alex Pettyfer), is next. Trying to be inconspicuous, he travels from place to place with his mentor/father-figure guardian, Henri (Timothy Olyphant), adopting assumed names.
Review by Jam Showbiz
I Am Number Four is a movie that hopes to be all things to all teens.
The highly anticipated action movie combines elements of science fiction and teen thrillers, with a hint of vampire influence thrown in for good measure.
That means you get jocks, nerds, pretty girls, extra-terrestrials with special powers and bad guys with pointy teeth, and not a single one of them has the sense to know you don’t go down into the basement in the dark.
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