I am Number Five

^ I’m the fifth and youngest addition to my family and heck, even my birth date is 5.

Before starting on my rambling for the day, let me remind you that I’m 19 years, 3 months and 4 days old.

So as a girl who’s in her last year of her teen life, I found that the movie I AM NUMBER FOUR is awesome. I watched this movie last Saturday with a colleague in IOI Mall. Let me try to list down a few factors that quite appealing in this movie.



1. The casts

For a movie to be a box office hit, the casts are the main reason other than a great storyline. Take Twilight saga for an example. The story about vampire was quite a hit among teens when the movie is released but what attracts most was the line of casts. Robert Pattinson (also known for his minor role as Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) was speculated to have the perfect face for a pale vampire. He impressed everyone including the writer of the saga, Stephanie Mayer during the audition. As for IANF, Alex Pettyfer can be considered as a rookie in Hollywood although he had acted in several movies back in his homeland Europe. Being only 21 and rookie doesn’t affect his acting in the movie. Believe or not, his American accent is so good that it’s hard to believe that he’s from Britain. I heart this guy. So I dared to update my Facebook with a virtual threat to Robert Pattinson to back off with now Alex is here to swirl Hollywood~ For your information, I was never a fan of Twilight. Be it the novel or the movie. A vampire doesn’t appeal to me. Period. The co-star of Alex is Dianna Agron, a Glee star who suits Alex well in the movie. Rumor has it that Alex and Dianna is dating. Another two characters that I found interesting was Callan McAuliffe, a science geek and Alex’s best friend in the movie and also Tim Olyphant who is Henri, the guardian for Alex. I have a thing for geeks so the young Sam (yes, he’s only in his mid-teen and he’s an Aussie) quite attractive to my eyes. No, that makes me sound like a pedophile.

2. The storyline

As I told a friend of mine, the early scenes reminds me of Avatar. All the tree climbing and swift runs in the dark forest made it more like that *laughs*. I never thought there will be a sequel for this movie but towards the ending, I knew there is gonna be a sequel. Although the story had left us with so many questions but I find that’s a good way to get more audience for the sequel. I hate it when a movie is so dark for us to see anything but the highlight of the movie is the ‘torchlight’ hand, a power that John Smith (Alex) possesses. I love it whenever he shoves his luminous hands when he’s in a dark space or testing his power on his dog. The story is about 9 people who were just kids when they were brought to the Earth from their planet Lorien after evil took place. According to the John’s guardian, these 9 people have to unite and use their legacies to protect their people. Too bad those 3 out of 9 survivors are killed and the mankind on Lorien is wiped off clean by the Mogadorians. It’s a story with a good balance of teenage romance and action. And I love those action scenes. (This is called the effect of Pettyfer-izing. Everything that Alex did in the movie is pure love)

3. The emotions
Although John appears to be a rebellious boy as it can be seen when he stands out most
and runs away from home although his guardian prevents him to do so, he still shed tears
when Henri was killed by one of the evil forces that hunt them down. It was touching
when he told Number Six that he wants to kill a certain Mogadorian who happens to be the
Henri-killer. Romance between Sarah and John is lovely as I found love isn’t the aspect the writer or the director emphasis on. The chemistry is just nice. Speaking of humor, it came from John, Henri, Sam and even the leader of the Mogadorian. Sam was a charm towards the ending of the movie for e.g. he tries to flirt with Number 6 when she showed up in front them. Well I didn’t cry for any scene in the movie but I had these “aww” moments when Henri died and John’s dog (which turns out to be a Chimera, an animal protector maybe) got hurt after a fight with a lizard monster of the Mogadorians.

from left : Jake Abel (Mark James), Dianna Agron (Sarah), Alex Pettyfer (John), Callan McAuliffe (Sam) and Teresa Palmer (Number Six)

Overall it wasn’t waste of my RM20 worth movie session as I enjoyed the movie from the beginning till the end. And it helps me to reduce my stress somehow. I’m thinking of watching Sanctum, Rango and Beastly (another charm of Alex). Movie date, anyone?

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