With “I am Number Four “we see yet another film in the mould of “Twilight”. This time however, it’s aliens rather than vampires that go through the Twilightification process.
I’d do a full plot synopsis, but there’s not much point. John Smith (The dude who played “Stormbreaker” – you don’t need his real name) is a brooding teenager who’s actually an alien, yada yada yada. He falls in love with an attractive high school girl (the pregnant one from Glee) who is ostracised by her peers blah blah blah. He’s hunted by evil aliens, gets a couple of side kicks (a dog and a geek), and then ends up forming a love triangle with another alien… basically there’s nothing new here.
Despite the fact that it’s cliché-ridden and entirely predictable, it’s not unentertaining. The plot moves fast enough and the fact that John is discovering his powers as he goes along makes him much more interesting than Edward from Twilight. That said, I do have a soft spot for Sci-fi, so maybe I forgave it more than it deserved.
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