MovieFreak.com February 18, 2011 Seriously, though, I Am Number Four may not be the greatest thing since sliced bread but I enjoyed watching it all the same.
RogerEbert.com February 17, 2011 What we have here is a witless attempt to merge the "Twilight" formula with the Michael Bay formula.
Hollywood Reporter February 16, 2011 A high-school movie with a sci-fi twist ultimately fumbles away a golden opportunity to give youth conflicts an added dimension.
Guardian February 24, 2011 The setting is the sleepy American town of Dullsville.
Boston.com February 17, 2011 Mostly "I Am Number Four'' is a pokey, pretty, predictable romance in which the boy is a shy extraterrestrial with secret powers and a royal l...
sbs.com.au February 24, 2011 The only thing I liked about the film was that these monsters that the Mogodorians keep in the truck are fed with frozen turkeys from the supe...
Los Angeles Times February 17, 2011 "I Am Number Four," the appealing new kid-on-the-teen-angst block, reverberates with much of the same dark combustible mix of action and romance th...
Austin Chronicle February 17, 2011 I Am Number Four doesn’t even begin to start making sense until at least 20 minutes in, but as the pieces fall into place, the thin...
Independent February 25, 2011 Its slavish adherence to formula is pitiful, but this patchy knock-off may do just enough to earn itself another go-round.
Shockya.com February 18, 2011 The only thing this film has going for it are pretty faces and even the demographic those faces are geared towards attracting will be onto Caruso&r...
Film.com February 18, 2011 Perhaps February’s recent history as a movie "dumping ground" has me feeling overly generous, but "I Am Number Four" was an enjoyab...
ca.askmen.com February 18, 2011 Count how many movies this year feature aliens bringing their intergalactic scrums to earth; from Cowboys & Aliens to Super 8. I Am Number Fou...
News of the World February 21, 2011 I Am Number Four is a film about a teenage boy who discovers his hands wield a very special power. (Aye. We’ve all been there, son.)
Slant Magazine February 23, 2011 I Am Number Four is a promise that the freaks will outlast the popular kids and that the aliens among us, the people with all the problems, ar...
Daily Telegraph February 24, 2011 It’s all glum, pseudo-rebellious attitude, with none of the gentle charm of John Carpenter’s Starman.
USA Today February 17, 2011 A cookie-cutter action film that hopes to stand on the shoulders of Twilight and Spider-Man but plays like Spider-lite.
I Am Number Four’s CGI sequences are murky and dark, its performances negligible, its script genuinely inept. There is, I should note, a pupp...
It’s not really dreadful but it’s not really enough.
Granted, I Am NumberFour is a little better and makes loads more sense than Eagle Eye, Caruso’s most recent vehicle for comely young act...
Arizona Republic February 16, 2011 "I Am Number Four" is like a good episode of "Smallville": You may feel a bit silly watching it if you’re past high-school age, but...
The sci-fi-teen romance I Am Number Four is witless, insultingly derivative, muddy-looking, and edited in the hammering epileptic style that m...
Variety February 16, 2011 The pic’s stumbling block is its inability to convince us we’re watching someone extraordinary.
Newark Star-Ledger February 18, 2011 Pettyfer - a child actor turned model turned self-satisfied hunk – isn’t much except blond hair and good cheekbones as our hero.
AV Club February 17, 2011 Really, everything in I Am Number Four is recognizable from many past films.
A Superman-come-lately tale of puppy love, extraordinary powers and puberty that’s duller than a chalkboard and less powerful than an ex...
New York Post February 18, 2011 For all of its homicidal aliens and toothy beasts, "I Am Number Four" did contain one element that genuinely unsettled me: the line "produced by Mi...
Empire Magazine February 22, 2011 This could be the start of something great.
Guardian February 28, 2011 The logic is dodgy, and the most frightening aspect is the sequel promised at the end.
Washington Post February 24, 2011 The young "Four" cast appears to have been plucked from an Abercrombie & Fitch catalogue – which isn’t an issue until you realize that t...
Tapping into the same vein of teen melodrama that runs through the Twilight franchise, I Am Number Four hurls a moody adolescent from outer space i...
TimeOut February 23, 2011 The door is left wide open for a sequel, but it’s hard to imagine there’ll be much call for it.
MSN Movies February 17, 2011 Honestly, the god-awful, no-budget, grade-Z 1959 potboiler Teenagers From Outer Space had more integrity than does this piece of militari...
Chicago Reader February 17, 2011 Producers Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg deploy an arsenal of noisy special effects to demonstrate the invaders' high-tech superiority, which mak...
