Twilight with Aliens, more or less. The plot and characterizations are piss-poor, the protagonist is bafflingly clueless for his age. The are constant plot diversions where our heroes seem to forget whats at stake. The villains (both alien and terrestrial) are all too stupid to pose any kind of real threat, and rely on the heroes' obvious lapses in judgment to take any advantage. On top of all this, the film takes far too long to kick our protagonist into gear. Bad effort all around.

Caruso makes it a trio of absolute stinkers with "I Am Number Four" adding to the horrible "Disturbia" & "Eagle Eye". Caruso has the annoying habit of casting the blandest teen trend-setters who are just so boring to watch. The sci-fi elements are boiled down to the absolute basics, as Caruso instead focuses on that supremely interesting American phenomenon of the High School clique! The whole 109 minutes are amazingly stupid. Caruso is essentially Michael Bay for the 'Twilight generation'!

#11#, popcorn, hype, story, (T Olyphant).

about a month after this came out i was seriously wondering what happened to it, it kind of just squeaked by without any notice, after all, the previews looked pretty good. after watching it i realized why no one banged any drums about it, because it kind of blows...that's why. was i the only one who thought, every time his hand's started glowing, he must masturbate too much. oh, and that was the most bad ass beagle in history.

You brought a gun? To action film? What could that possibly be good for? And that's not nearly the worst of the dialogue; cheesy cliches and tie-in lines, which are so out of the blue that they're red (think about it). And let's not forget the whole "I'm a superhero but I need to go to public school where they teach...umm well I'm not sure anymore..but I must go."

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I didn't love it or hate it. It just is out there. Based off of a book series. I Am Number Four is about 9 children who escape their planet from these aliens that are hunting them. They all hide on earth and now the aliens are seeking the final few children to wipe them out. This was a weird movie for Tim Olyphant. He seemed a little out of place in this. I was glad to see Dianna Agron in this. I hope to see her in more films. A few good fight sequences but a bland story all in all.

With powerful flashlights comes great responsibility. Superman meets high school romance. Clichés, you say? Most genre films have those; recognition of archetypes and plot points is part of what makes them enjoyable. So nevermind the familiarity when most of it works fine here: the mentor, the chosen one, the nerdy sidekick etc. It might not exactly be Oscar material but the only element preventing it from being good is the bad guys which are ... eyerollingly bad. Oh well.. go find Number Five.

Twilight, but written for introverted junior high boys instead of girls. Also about aliens instead of vampires.

It is not bad per se, it is entertaining, but there is some big logic and plot fail. Nonetheless, the last 30 minutes are funny to watch with the big alien ray guns and chimeras jumping around. If they manage to get a more coherent and believable rationale for the sequel, it can become quite an interesting franchise. I just hope they get rid of the silly Twilight influence. And next time time let the protagonist CARE ABOUT THE FUCKING DOG.

I hope they make another

I thought from watching the previews it looked better then it was and the girl in the movie was avarage at best.

Teal and Orange the movie

totally pointless... High school romance even worse than Twilight... 57 for Alien CGI and soundtrack... I hope they dont make sequels like `I found number five` `where the hell is number seven` etc etc...

Twilight, The X-Files, and X-Men all met up and churned out this odd little sci-fi thriller for teens. Given little background to the characters and the plot, audiences are pulled into a bizzarro story about a teenage alien on the run from enemies of another world. But the boy wants to be a teenager and meet girls and go to school until he has to battle some baddies with superpowers. I liked this movie for what it was---a brisk time-waster that deserves to be more popular than The Twilight Saga.

Bad movie

It's sad when the trailer has more back story than the actual movie. The action scenes at the end were awesome, but there was a lot of meandering through the beginning to get you there. Since the movie explains so little, it begs for a sequel, but I'm afraid that it might not have given enough substance in the first to drum up any demand for a second.

Awfully pointless.

Miles ahead of Twilight

ger; [Ich bin Nummer Vier]; ein teenager besitzt aussergewöhnliche fähigkeiten anhand denen man erkennt dass er ein gejagter alien ist.;

The plot was very predictable, the story had a fair amount of clichés as expected, but the sci-fi details of the story were great and made this film very much watchable! Overall it's an entertaining movie with awesome sountrack.

Better than I expected. Action and the plot development has a nice balance and guess we will be able to learn more about this kid and his friends in the future.

Pretty much takes the Star Wars mould and tries to recast it into modern day. We have a young hero with super-human powers he doesn't fully understand, caught in a war bigger than he is and older mentor who will die to protect him. I Am Number Four is, simply put, a "made for teenage girls" film, much like Twilight, but unlike other teen films such as 10 Things I Hate About You it has nothing to appeal to anyone outside the target demographic. You can easily miss this.

Bad movie... Aside from many logical bugs, there was one thing which got me the most. He did not help his dog in the fight, nor has he looked for the dog afterwards....