I Am Number Four (2011)
Average Rating: 4.8/10
Reviews Counted: 156
Fresh: 50 | Rotten: 106
It's positioned as the start of a franchise, but I Am Number Four's familiar plot and unconvincing performances add up to one noisy, derivative, and ultimately forgettable sci-fi thriller.
Average Rating: 4.5/10
Critic Reviews: 31
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 25
It's positioned as the start of a franchise, but I Am Number Four's familiar plot and unconvincing performances add up to one noisy, derivative, and ultimately forgettable sci-fi thriller.
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Movie Info
Three are dead. He is Number Four. D.J. Caruso ("Eagle Eye," "Disturbia") helms an action-packed thriller about an extraordinary young man, John Smith (Alex Pettyfer), who is a fugitive on the run from ruthless enemies sent to destroy him. 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
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Cast
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Alex Pettyfer
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Timothy Olyphant
Henri -
Teresa Palmer
Number 6, Number Six -
Dianna Agron
Sarah -
Callan McAuliffe
Sam -
Kevin Durand
Mogadorian Commander -
Jake Abel
Mark -
Jeff Hochendoner
Sheriff James -
Patrick Sebes
Kevin -
Greg Townley
Number 3 -
Reuben Langdon
Number 3's Guardian -
Emily Wickersham
Nicole -
Molly McGinnis
Receptionist -
Brian Howe
Frank -
Andrew Owen
Bret -
Sophia Caruso
Girl on Street -
Charles Carroll
Sam's Stepdad -
L. Derek Leonidoff
Mr. Berhman -
Garrett M. Brown
Mr. Simms -
Sabrina De Matteo
Physics Teacher -
Cooper Thornton
Sarah's Dad -
Judith Hoag
Sarah's Mom -
Jack Walz
Sarah's Brother -
Bill Laing
Demented Farmer -
Beau Mirchoff
Drew -
Cody Johns
Kern -
Isabella Robbins
Teen at Party
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The young "Four" cast appears to have been plucked from an Abercrombie & Fitch catalogue - which isn't an issue until you realize that the characters they're playing are about as thin as the pages in that Gen-Y fashion Bible.
Top CriticThe door is left wide open for a sequel, but it's hard to imagine there'll be much call for it.
The sci-fi-teen romance I Am Number Four is witless, insultingly derivative, muddy-looking, and edited in the hammering epileptic style that marks so many films produced, as this one is, by Michael Bay.
Granted, I Am NumberFour is a little better and makes loads more sense than Eagle Eye, Caruso's most recent vehicle for comely young actors in peril. But neither one has the sass and pluck of Disturbia. Watch that instead.
Pettyfer - a child actor turned model turned self-satisfied hunk - isn't much except blond hair and good cheekbones as our hero.
Perhaps February's recent history as a movie "dumping ground" has me feeling overly generous, but "I Am Number Four" was an enjoyable romp.
I really hope a sequel comes along to answer our questions and close up some loose threads.
It's very silly, but also thoroughly entertaining because it gives us exactly what we want.
The epic computer-generated alien smackdown is settled in a battle zone well known to any teen: high school hallways and the football field.
They stumble onto a vacant house that, like all vacant houses in the movies, is fully furnished and has working electricity.
An entertaining film that lacks maturity and expression.
I Am Number Four carefully balances spectacle and story, emerging as a competent start-of-the-year blockbuster.
No creative inspiration gets in the way of the beautiful people running and jumping and kissing while things go boom in the forgettable teen sci-fi actioner I Am Number Four. [Blu-ray]
... strictly fourth-rate young-adult sci-fi thriller. However you rank it, it's by the numbers...
I walked into this movie a skeptic and left a true believer.
This brave new world of sci-fi adventure, while it seems hopelessly derivative, has more originality than meets the eye ... if you read the book first.
full review at Movies for the Masses
In that way, I Am Number Four feels like a perfect DJ Caruso film. There's nothing wrong with it, but it could be so much more.
It's absolutely empty and derivative and kind of a blast and so what? Pass me the Junior Mints.
There's a lot going on in 'I Am Number Four,' and very little of it makes sense.
Was the original novel ... as cheesy as this?
Sci-fi thriller is explosive fun (but take care the wooden leads don't give you splinters)
Hollywood has good reasons to continually make action movies aimed directly at teenagers. Every bad reason can be summed up in one viewing of I Am Number Four.
I Am Number Four runs a bit like this: OK, OK, ho-hum, yawn, YAY WOW! ... meh.
...soulless factory-line junk...
Number Four is familiar but fun.
Audience Reviews for I Am Number Four
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- Mark: Hey Spock! Head's up UFO brother!
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- Nicole: He's a freak! He's some kind of freak!
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- Number Six: Who is this tool?
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- John Smith/Number Four: You have no idea what I'm capable of.
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- Sam: I play a lot of Xbox.
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- Number 6: Red Bull is for pussies.
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Foreign Titles
- Ich bin Nummer Vier (DE)
- Numero quatre (FR)
