There’s simply nothing exceptional about the film, which becomes a problem when its foundation comes almost exclusively from established pop-culture material.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 31, 2023

Stylistically it's a mess too. The film contains little, at source, that is its own...

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 25, 2021

A modestly interesting but mostly paint-by-numbers rip-off of better cinematic adventures.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 11, 2020

Teen angst, this is my friend, aliens. Aliens, meet my old pal, teen angst.

| Original Score: D | Jul 13, 2020

With an opening scene that leaves you breathless, the WOW factor is set for the entire film and it only takes minutes to realize that I Am Number Four will be your number one movie pick this week.

| Nov 16, 2019

I Am Number Four resolves its immediate storylines, while leaving things wide open for a sequel. There's enough energy and personality here to make a follow-up an acceptable prospect.

| Original Score: B | Feb 16, 2019

You could do worse. It's a rather entertaining film, and it doesn't take itself entirely seriously, with plenty of light touches that help to diffuse some of the melodrama.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 4, 2018

[I Am Number Four] is a die-cast plastic creation, almost devoid of anything memorable.

| May 22, 2018

Replace the melodramatic vampires and werewolves [from The Twilight Saga] with some equally angsty extraterrestrials and Four is an obvious imitation with faint originality.

| Original Score: D | Jan 29, 2018

Nothing about the movie felt fresh or inventive and it's hard to be interested when you're comparing it constantly to twelve different things that have come before.

| Oct 24, 2017

A horrible mess that embodes the worst from two different worlds, the most sappy teen romance ever and a souless superhero story. [Full review in Spanish]

| Apr 1, 2016

Though geared towards a young adult audience, I Am Number Four entertains with sleek special effects, scary aliens, and superhero action.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 24, 2013

A solid but unspectacular story that is aided geatly by its four likeable leads.

| Original Score: 3.0/5 | Jun 30, 2013

| Original Score: B- | Feb 18, 2012

I really hope a sequel comes along to answer our questions and close up some loose threads.

| Nov 21, 2011

It's very silly, but also thoroughly entertaining because it gives us exactly what we want.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 17, 2011

The epic computer-generated alien smackdown is settled in a battle zone well known to any teen: high school hallways and the football field.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 9, 2011

They stumble onto a vacant house that, like all vacant houses in the movies, is fully furnished and has working electricity.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 16, 2011

An entertaining film that lacks maturity and expression.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 15, 2011

I Am Number Four carefully balances spectacle and story, emerging as a competent start-of-the-year blockbuster.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 14, 2011