Serious Mozzarella
Special Victims Unit
So I got lucky, and got an invitation to an advanced screening of I Am Number Four.
Synopsis:
John Smith is an alien who has been living on Earth since birth, living with his guardian Henri, constantly moving from city to city on the run from a race of evil aliens who are hell-bend on eradicating his race of people. In a small town of Ohio, John falls in love with a human girl, and develops powerful new abilities. He is number 4 of a group of 7 (?) members of his race of whom display unique abilities, and must be killed in sequence.
Review:
The movie had a pretty crappy trailer, so I didn't walk into this movie with high expectations. I probably wouldn't have anyway, as Michael Bay was involved, and I knew this was going to be a plot-light explosion fest. Which isn't a bad thing. I love Michael Bay, but I wasn't expecting much.
The trailer gives off a super generic, cliche, "kid randomly becomes the 'chosen one' and must save the world, while discovering superpowers in a light-hearted, almost comical way," but in the first 10 minutes of the movie, that wasn't the case.
My main issue with the movie, right off the bat, not 10 minutes into it, is that these people are supposed to be aliens. Except both of these aliens act human. In fact, if they didn't explicitly tell you that they were aliens, there would be absolutely nothing about them that tells you they're an alien. You would have no way of knowing. They act like humans, they talk like humans, they know everything there is to know about being humans.
Then we're introduced to the villains. I was annoyed with the villains, because they were straight out of Power Rangers. Seriously, they talk like thugs, you can't tell the leader from any of the other ones, they hire humans to help them out, and they get their asses kicked pretty easily.
Throw in a love story, fill it with every cliche and movie trope in the book, and you have yourself a cookie-cutter action/adventure flick.
The action was great, Michael Bay, while only a producer, is extremely well highlighted, as all of the action has his style attributed to it. If you've seen any of his movies, you'll know what I mean.
But I was expecting all of this. I enjoyed it for what it was, and I am looking forward to the sequel (it ends on a cliffhanger).
6.5/10
Synopsis:
John Smith is an alien who has been living on Earth since birth, living with his guardian Henri, constantly moving from city to city on the run from a race of evil aliens who are hell-bend on eradicating his race of people. In a small town of Ohio, John falls in love with a human girl, and develops powerful new abilities. He is number 4 of a group of 7 (?) members of his race of whom display unique abilities, and must be killed in sequence.
Review:
The movie had a pretty crappy trailer, so I didn't walk into this movie with high expectations. I probably wouldn't have anyway, as Michael Bay was involved, and I knew this was going to be a plot-light explosion fest. Which isn't a bad thing. I love Michael Bay, but I wasn't expecting much.
The trailer gives off a super generic, cliche, "kid randomly becomes the 'chosen one' and must save the world, while discovering superpowers in a light-hearted, almost comical way," but in the first 10 minutes of the movie, that wasn't the case.
My main issue with the movie, right off the bat, not 10 minutes into it, is that these people are supposed to be aliens. Except both of these aliens act human. In fact, if they didn't explicitly tell you that they were aliens, there would be absolutely nothing about them that tells you they're an alien. You would have no way of knowing. They act like humans, they talk like humans, they know everything there is to know about being humans.
Then we're introduced to the villains. I was annoyed with the villains, because they were straight out of Power Rangers. Seriously, they talk like thugs, you can't tell the leader from any of the other ones, they hire humans to help them out, and they get their asses kicked pretty easily.
Throw in a love story, fill it with every cliche and movie trope in the book, and you have yourself a cookie-cutter action/adventure flick.
The action was great, Michael Bay, while only a producer, is extremely well highlighted, as all of the action has his style attributed to it. If you've seen any of his movies, you'll know what I mean.
But I was expecting all of this. I enjoyed it for what it was, and I am looking forward to the sequel (it ends on a cliffhanger).
6.5/10
