Review: I Am Number Four

This is John. He's an alien. A teen heart-throb alien.

What do all teens love? Let's see - they love very attractive versions of themselves, melodramatic love, Top 40 music, cliche high school scenarios... and some teens love aliens. Throw those all into a movie and it's a surefire success! Not really, but that probably went through the minds of the film executives that ok'd this film into production. To be honest, I haven't read the book that this movie is based on, but I sure hope it's a lot better than the movie. I Am Number Four is one of those movies that's so painful, you'll have a lot of fun making fun of it after you see it.

Here, we follow John. John is an alien. He lives on Earth now because his planet was destroyed by some bad guys. The bad guys are now looking for him on Earth because they need to destroy him and the other "numbered" ones so they can take over Earth, or something.. it's never really made clear. The story isn't very good, which is one thing on a list of many things that aren't so good about this movie. Let's list them:

1. The story (incoherent)
2. The acting (painful, seriously painful)
3. The dialogue (does the book sound like this?)
4. The bad guys (they look like thrown out concepts of what Voldemort could look like)

You're probably thinking that a movie that fails on these 4 concepts cannot be a good movie. You're right. I'm sorry I Am Number Four, but no matter how much trendy music you throw at me (we're talking Jimmy Eat World, The Black Keys, Kings of Leon, Beck, etc..), you're still not a good movie. I'll give it this, the movie builds up to a pretty wiz-bang fight scene finale. You'll just have to endure much, and by the time it happens, you just want the movie to be over.

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