I am number four

We have all done this. Looked at a movie trailer and though "wow awesome!!!" and then come to actually watching the movie and it turns out to be not the awesome movie you where expecting.

The movie in question here is is 'I am number four'. The basic idea for the movie is this: a planet gets invaded by some aliens, everyone gets killed. There are nine of them with special abilities but they didn't mature enough for them to save the planet. (we find this out in the narrative, we don't actually get to see all of this). They get put into pods or ships or whatever and they end up on earth. The invading aliens start to track them all down, killing them in order (no explanation as to why they all had numbers or how the numbering came about).

The movie starts out with a guy (suppose to be in his teens, but typically he looked over 20..... stupid Hollywood) with his mates jet skying and hanging out on the beach. He gets a text from a girl that wants to meet him out in the water, at night (que the advertisement for a fruit themed tech toy that only tossers that show off in star bucks use. This advertisement goes on all throughout the movie). So then a circle on his leg lights up and he sees a vision of someone being killed. Chick swims away rather sharpish and he wakes up on the beach the next day.

So apparently the guy is on the run from the aliens trying to kill him. He is with his 'guardian' some sort of warrior guy with little swords that light up on the ends. They end up in a small town where he goes to high school using forged documents to get in. So now it turns into a typical American teen drama with all the cliches that come with it. Idiot football jocks, blond haired love interest and all that other boring rubbish. This goes on for half of the movie *yawn*.

He finds how to use his powers, glowing hands, he can run fast yadda yadda. There is also another chick looking for him. She blows up the building he used to live in at the beach with an unnecessary forced explosion scene. We see she has powers too. So he makes friends with a science geek/alien freak guy; turns out his father disappeared while helping number four's guardian.

So the bad guys catch up with him, try to kill him etc. The other chick turns out to be number six, they combine powers, stuff blows up and they kill all the baddies.

At the end number 4four and number six along with the science geek go off in search of the other number folk. And that was it.

It's almost like the movie was two different stories badly plastered together. A story about teen drama rubbish, and a story about aliens. A whole lot of boring stuff leading up to disappointing action scenes, so there was no reward.

Not completely unwatchable, perhaps give it a go if you have nothing else to watch (and with all the movies around this will never happen anyway...). I give this movie a 4 out of 10.

Thanks for reading.