I Am Number Four

Movie: I Am Number Four
Genre: science fiction thriller
Synopsis: John (Alex Pettyfer) is from another planet. When the Magador race conquered his planet, nine children were sent to Earth for safety.  John is the fourth of these nine.  His companion/bodyguard/father-figure is Henri (Timothy Olyphant).  Magadorians have landed on Earth and are hunting down the nine children in order.  The first three have been killed and now they are after John.  When Henri moves them to Paradise, Ohio to hide out, John falls for Sarah (Dianna Agron), a girl in the local high school.  When the Magadorians descend on Paradise with their hunting creatures, John must enlist the help of some of the locals to battle them – and he gets some additional help from unexpected sources.

My two cents: I kind of enjoyed this movie.  I had low expectations, but it turned out to be OK.  The storyline is a bit of a stretch, but once I bought into it, it was fun.  The powers that John had were interesting, the Magadorians were cartoonishly evil and both sides had some really big and really mean creatures they enlisted during the climactic battle at the end.

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