Well this weekend I saw two movies, I Am Number Four and Unknown. Unknown was solid of course because Liam Nesson is a great actor and just like The Bourne Identity people went to see it. My review on Four is the good the bad and gray area in between.

Some facts taken from LA Times and New York Times:

"I Am Number Four" cost approximately $59 million to make from what I read at the LA Times. They would have to break that easily before a sequel would be in consideration. Four is currently 3rd at the box office with roughly $25 million made in tickets. Currently no sites have been able to pirate it and post it for free online via webcams due to the FBI's recent increase in security with this matter such as shutting sites down like quicksilverscreen which does that often. One of the main cost savers was the use of new actors aside from the guardian. This was quite refreshing to see some originality on the big screen.

The movie was easily worth the $6 and I am sure because the type of movie it was would be awesome in 3D iMax. This movie was based on a comic series and a book which I believe the book came first. I wont say to much of the movie story other then what the previews and trailers showed, however the basic synopsis is a nine people from another planet Lorien took refuge on earth from the Mogs who are killing them off. These nine are a special nine from their race that each have a guardian to keep them alive as long as possible or until they have their legacy which is the beginning of them getting control of each of their unique abilities.

I will start off by going over the obvious pit falls of the movie. The first and major one is that it focused quite a bit on the future of this saga and movies to come that it took a bit away from the movie we are watching now. It was set up especially in the end to the point where it almost had big letters saying LOOK FOR THE SEQUEL. It had a couple corny/cheesy predictable areas as well where you could say a director like Michael Bay could throw in a really good twist. Based on the previews I saw I was actually looking for the twist but it never came. Disappointing yes but that did not define the movie for me.

The movie was average paced that had "edge of your seat" action scenes in it and phrases like "whooooa that was sick." I thought character development was fairly average nothing room for improvement but definitely not what I would call bad based on other movies I have seen. The movie some people say is just another typical sci fi movie, but I feel something more can come out of this then simply jedi like powers and star wars like characters. The saga has a future if it is taken enough with the audience. It was a really really fun movie to watch. I saw a review that said it was child like, but compared to gnomeo and juliet it is far from it. Sure it doesn't drop the F bomb every 5 seconds which just made my rating go up. As a 20 year old it was a great movie and easily worth the $6-10 to see it on the big screen.

Oh yeah, the fuzzy gray matter. I call the sequel the fuzzy gray matter. Based on past movies like this such as The Last Airbender I would say the movie has a 20% chance of a sequel, pretty low odds. Take in the effect that the airbender cost $280 million to this $60 million I might raise it to 40% chance of us seeing a sequel. Why is it in the gray matter? Well its ultimately up to the director Michael Bay to do it or another director to pick it up and take the risk. I am sure it will break the cost of the film which makes a sequel acceptable however it is still a tough judgement call. I personally hope there is because I think it might be fairly epic especially with how much they set it up in this movie.

Overall, fresh and original, fun, with some minor pitfalls are my final words.

Average critic review 2.5/5.0 my review 4.1/5.0

Hope there is a sequel, I am disappointed about the last airbender because I am a fan of classic epic movies so I hope this time it comes around, its been so long since our last one in 2003 called The Lord of RIngs that finished. Bourne series and what not aren't epic, I call those modern day masterpieces.

Some negative and positive comments I have seen a frequently.

Positive:
Extremely entertaining
Great originality
Good Emotion
Negative:
Amateur
Drawn out
Another twilight movie with hot teenagers.



The movie would of been a much bigger hit if there was more hype. Unfortunately the previews were amazing however not played nearly enough during prime time.



EDIT: Please excuse grammar I don't have time to make a formal review, as I have to go in a few minutes.

great review i dunno if i will see this because for some reason it looks like Twilight to me and also i don't like micheal bay so i probably will wait for this to come on dvd

Wow you are literally the first person in the 3 forums I participate in/run/own that has ever said they did not like Michael Bay as a director. I'll give you that he dropped the ball by doing those transformer movies but other than his track record is great.

I heard the twilight comment before, however I have seen the Twilight movie, first one it was to bad for me to ever watch the rest of them. The guardian guy, oh i forget his name is actually a staple actor in his 40s so I think that keeps it out of the twilight teenie movie theme you think it is. It is kind of like the first seasons of smallville, mostly young people with a couple key older actors intermixed. Not comparing quality just actors.

Cool man good review The previews look good so I may see it

Yeah, I had to look at it objectively, as much as I would absolutely love to see a sequel mainly because they spent so much time setting it up and it is a saga not just a single movie, I don't think we will see one. I am confident the movie will of course break decent profit, but I think it should have done so much better on the holiday weekend. Possibly that it simply did not get enough prime time advertising, I had a lot of friends that had no clue there was a movie called that which is bad marketing I must say, although the previews were one of the best I have seen in a while.

Great review but I have never seen those movies but your reviews sound wonderful. Good job!

Nice review, it covered the bases and was a good length without rambling. Pretty informative, but no spoilers. Nice job,I'll make sure to check out the movie sometime.

I am Number Four is a good movie in which you feel that Alfred Cough and Miles Miller are involved in because it reminds of Smallville at some points. However I like the movie and it's a good fun film.