I Am Number Four is a 2011 American teen action science fiction film, directed by D. J. Caruso, starring Alex Pettyfer, Timothy Olyphant, Teresa Palmer, Dianna Agron and Callan McAuliffe. The screenplay by Alfred Gough, Miles Millar and Marti Noxon is based on the novel I Am Number Four by Jobie Hughes and James Freywriting under the combined pseudonym of Pittacus Lore.
The film was produced by Michael Bay through DreamWorks. The Hollywood Reporter projected the budget to be between $50 and $60 million. The film was released in both conventional and IMAX theatres on February 18, 2011.[3]
Plot
John Smith (Alex Pettyfer) is from the planet Lorien. He was sent to Earth as a child with eight others to escape the invading Mogadorians, who had destroyed their own home planet. He is protected by a Warrior/Guardian, Henri (Timothy Olyphant), and has developed extraterrestrial "legacies", including enhanced strength, speed and agility, telekinesis and the power to transmit plasma light through his hands.
The Mogadorians, led by the Commander (Kevin Durand) learn about the nine children and come to Earth to find them. The Loriens can only be killed in sequence, though, and three of them are already dead. John is Number Four. Knowing this, he and Henri move from a beachside bungalow in Florida to an old farm in Paradise, Ohio, where John befriends conspiracy theorist Sam Goode (Callan McAuliffe) and a dog named Bernie Kosar. He also falls in love with amateur photographer Sarah Hart (Dianna Agron), whose ex-boyfriend, football player Mark James (Jake Abel) is a bully who often torments both John and Sam.
During the Halloween festival, Mark and his friends try to capture John and Sarah by chasing them into the woods, where they try to beat John up. However, he uses his powers to fend them off and rescue Sarah. Sam witnesses everything and John reveals his true origins to Sam. The next day Mark's father, the local sheriff, interrogates Henri on John's whereabouts when his son and his friends were attacked, and notices that the farm has a high-tech surveillance system.
Henri tells John that too many people are suspicious of them, in addition to John's displays of power, since he can't control them, so they have to leave. However, John refuses to because he's in love with Sarah.
The Mogadorians continue searching for John. Another Lorienan, Number Six (Teresa Palmer), decided to go after the Mogadorians instead of running away after her Guardian was murdered. The Mogadorians eventually locate John and manipulate two conspiracy theorists into capturing Henri. When John and Sam go to rescue him, they are attacked but manage to fend Mogadorians off. However, Henri dies after John and Sam escape with some Lorien artifacts, including a blue rock that acts as a tracking device to other Loriens. Sam's father, a conspiracy theorist who disappeared while hunting aliens in Mexico, has another. While Sam searches for it, John tries to say goodbye to Sarah at a party, only to discover that the Mogadorians have framed him and Henri for the murders of the conspiracy theorists, as well as being terrorists. Mark sees John and calls his father, who corners John and Sarah. John saves Sarah from a fall, revealing his powers in the process, and they escape to their high school.
Meanwhile, The Commander arrives in Paradise, and has all of the town's exits blocked with trucks. He is confronted by Mark and his father, and after injuring the sheriff, he forces Mark to show him where John is hiding. Mark takes him to the school, which he knows is Sarah's hideout.
There, John, Sarah and Sam are attacked by the Mogadorians, who brought two giant monsters to hunt the trio. They are saved by Number Six and John's "dog," Bernie Kosar, who is actually a good Chimera which can shapeshift. It was sent by his parents to help protect him. After he battles the monsters Bernie reverts back to a beagle with a wounded paw. John and Number Six, who teleports and can block energy attacks, continue to fight the Mogadorians. They eventually defeat them all, including the Commander, whose energy grenades are overheated by John and explode, destroying his body.
The following day, John, Number Six, Sam and Bernie Kosar, unite their blue rocks and discover the location of the other four surviving Loriens. John decides to let Sam come with them with hopes of finding Sam's father. They set off to find the others so they can all protect Earth from the Mogadorians, leaving Sarah and a repentant Mark. The bully redeemed himself by lying to his father about John's whereabouts and returning a box belonging to John's father.
The film ends as John narrates that Paradise is the first town he left without Henri, but it's also the first one where he has a reason to come back to.
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