Big Shock at the cinema this week, We went to see I am Number Four and it wasn't all that bad, I know what your thinking how can there be anything good about it when it is produced by Michael Bay, and normally I would agree that as soon as Michael Bay gets involved in any project it is normally by nature a bad film, but this was not all bad.
The story is the current photo fit young adult movie that is doing the rounds.
Alien/Werewolf/Witch/Vampire loner and has to keep to himself but falls in love as his enemies are closing in.
The Outsider this time is the eponymous Number 4 played by Alex Pettyfer (The Kid from Stormbreaker) with the Love interest played by Glee's Dianna Agron. It very much reminded me of a cheaper version of 2008's Jumper, cheaper in cast rather than budget which I believe was actually more.
I had been expecting the film to be very poor as in Empire magazine it said that the premise was a group of Nine Alien children who each had a number and had to be killed off in the correct order, obviously this made me simply wonder why they don't get number 1, lock him away somewhere and then all protect him knowing that until they get him the rest are safe, but it appears that Empire are wrong (Not for the first time) although they are being killed in order by the Magodorions - it must get hard to come up with names, at least this is better than unobtainium! The Magodorions are quite funny with gills on their cheeks and sharp teeth they have mastered interplanetary space travel but seem to lack the ability to set a decent trap, and for some reason they decided to cut the power to try and slow down someone who has in built torches in his hands.
The best supporting character is Callan McAuliffe who plays the geeky friend and UFO hunter who has some good comic lines, and gives everyone who is sitting at home on the Xbox a good excuse to play on.
Overall I have started to think that perhaps the only reason the film is not all that bad is because being a Michael Bay I was expecting so much worse!
There are apparently going to be six films in this series (although apparently the books are not written yet.) and I will happily go and see the next one although the series really could go south very quickly.
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