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This movie's plot has so many holes in it that at some point I actually gave up trying to follow it and just watched the CGI effects.

The basic storyline is that one group of good guy aliens have a battle royal with a group of bad guy aliens and destroy a Midwestern town in the process.

Questions for the writers and directors:

1). So the hero of this movie is a young man who is sent from his home planet to earth right before his home planet is destroyed by bad guy aliens and when he gets here he discovers he has superpowers? That would be a very original concept had it not been devised 70 years ago and made into TV shows, comics and movies already. What was the creative meeting like for this movie? "Hey lets make a movie about an alien that comes to earth and has super powers! Wait, hasn't that been done already in Superman? No, no... This will be completely different because he wont have a red cape! Brilliant! Get casting on it."

2). So let me get this straight. An entire bad guy alien armada fully equipped with ray guns and demonic beasts, which, by the way, destroyed the good guy alien's home planet is parked just outside the galaxy waiting to attack earth but is afraid to advance because of 10 high school students? Seriously??

3). If 10 of these good guy aliens is preventing the bad guys from attacking earth, one must ask whether there were not 10 similar individuals on the good guy alien planet that got obliterated first? You would think there would be at least 10 of them there since its their home planet.

4). Why do the good guy aliens have to be killed in sequence? Who assigned the sequence to them? How do the bad guys know which good guy alien is number 1 or 2 or 3, or so on? What happens if number 5 gets run over by a bus? Does number 6 get an email that says "Dear Good Guy Alien Number 6, due to circumstance beyond our control we have changed your number. You are no longer number 6. You are now number 5. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you. Sincerely Good Guy Alien Administration?"

5). The movie makes a big deal about the fact that the good guy aliens are stronger if they are together. So then why are they scattered all over the place?? Why not have them all in a good guy alien commune?

6). So the nerdy kid's dad was abducted by UFOs BUT he was actually helping the good guy aliens? With what?? How was he helping?? Who abducted him??

7). The hottest girl in high school goes on 2 dates with good guy alien and then decides to abandon her life and her mother to travel the globe with good guy alien?? Okay, I will buy that. But how did that conversation go? "Mom, I am going to travel the globe to help protect earth. I love you. Okay Sweeitie, I love you too and dont forget to floss."

8). Why only send 10 or so bad guy aliens to take out the good guy aliens? I am no military genius, but maybe 2 groups converging in a pincer move would be more effective? Or maybe they could use whatever spaceship that got the bad guy assassination team here to just blast a 2 mile area with their super weapons when they figure out where one of these guys is.

9). Miscellaneous category: How do the aliens get to earth? Spaceships, transporters, what? How do they learn English? Why do they speak English to each other? Where do they get money? How are they planning on leaving? etc.. etc.. etc..

So I will stop here but in a nutshell this movie is like listening to a 3 year old tell a story. Its cute, but you cant really follow it.

Trailer

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. More

• 33 %Rotten
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• 7 reviews

• Directed by D.J. Caruso

2011109 minsUSA

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I Am Number Four | Reviews

33%169 reviews

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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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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