Variety
A flashy, lunkheaded sci-fi extravaganza sure to appeal to teenagers who like their interplanetary warfare bloodless, their high-school soaps squeaky-clean and their numbers countable on one hand.
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I Am Number Four
DJ Caruso (Eagle Eye, Disturbia) helms this sci-fi action-thriller about an extraordinary young man with a very ordinay name - John Smith (Alex Pettyfer), a fugitive on the run from ruthless enemies sent to destroy him. Three like him have already been killed... he is Number Four.
Changing his identity, moving from town to town with his guardian Henri (Timothy Olyphant), John is always the new kid with no ties to his past. In the small Ohio town he now calls home, John encounters unexpected, life-changing events - his first love (Dianna Agron), powerful new abilities and a connection to the others who share his incredible destiny.
Less2011Rating: M, contains violence109 minsUSA
ActionScience FictionThriller
- Director:
- D.J. Caruso ('Eagle Eye', 'Disturbia')
- Writer:
- Miles MillarAlfred Gough
- Cast:
- Alex PettyferTimothy OlyphantTeresa PalmerDianna AgronKevin DurandCallan McAuliffe
I Am Number Four | Reviews
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Total Film
An enjoyable teen rom-thriller that never swerves off the beaten path but always keeps its footing. Expect a franchise, and career boosts for Pettyfer and Agron.
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The New York Times
Sluggish and derivative, I Am Number Four is another elaborate puberty metaphor with superpowers substituting for testosterone.
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Roger Ebert
What we have here is a witless attempt to merge the "Twilight" formula with the Michael Bay formula.
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Hollywood Reporter
The movie is a mixed bag, with many of the elements fun and intriguing, but since this is also a Michael Bay-produced movie, CG monsters and cartoon bad guys gum up a third act.
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Empire Magazine
Understandably, I Am Number Four has already drawn comparisons to Twilight – both are based on successful teen novels about a loner girl and a stranger with secret powers; both heavily feature a handsome man’s abs – but the similarities are only in the broad sense. Where Twilight’s focus is all about the desperation of all-consuming romance, I Am Number Four is (eventually) more interested in the secret and the possibilities that might present.
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Dominion Post
Let's see if I got this right. Somewhere out there in another bit of the galaxy, a race of photogenic goodies called the Loriens were attacked and wiped out by the bad guy Mogadorians.
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I Am Number Four | Release Details
I Am Number Four is available to stream in New Zealand now on Google Play and Apple TV.