The Prequel to I Am Number Five

Title: I Am Number Four

Actors/Director/Anything Worth Mentioning Right Away:  The kid from Beastly mixed with Tomothy Olyphant.  

Introduction:  I’m not sure whether or not I’ve reviewed this before (It feels kind of like I have), but here we go again anyway.   If this is in any way similar to my other review I apologize because, well, I review so much stuff I tend to forget.   I know that I started watching this movie before—and I might have made a review based on that—but I’m not 100% certain that I did a review, so either enjoy or enjoy again depending upon my selective memory.

Location:  This takes place in primarily the same town, but it has some special effects that imply it had a budget.   Not a B movie, which could have made it so much better.    We’ll get to that later though.

Plot:   A kid named John Smith is number four and numbers one through three have been killed.   He is being hidden from aliens who want him dead for reasons I never fully understood.   In the end, rather than be killed by the aliens John stays and fights them and I think he wins but I really don’t care.   This movie is a sort of generic alien in high school movie and if you wanted to see a much better version of what they were going for (Only in reverse) then just watch The Faculty.

Acting:  Somewhere between Twilight and Sucker Punch.

Production:  This was in theaters, yeah.

Sex/Nudity:  Doubtful.

Special Effects:  There are a lot and they are quite funny.  

Overall Verdict:  At one point, John Smith begins lighting up in class.   When his classmate friend asks him about it, he just says it’s a trick he did with flashlights because class is boring.  This got me to thinking… What if this was a B movie and you could see wires when guys flew through the air?  What if his hands really did light up with flashlights?   What if he stuck a flashlight in his shirt and that’s how he made the glowing effect?   That is something I actually wouldn’t mind seeing—that version of the movie.