Michael Bay's latest effort as producer is great popcorn fun.

Before we get anywhere into this review, it’s most important to note Michael Bay is attached to this film as producer.

Anything Bay is involved with is bound to have plenty of special effects woohaa and a couple of good looking young leads, but the real question is, does it have enough substance in its story to back up its impressive visuals?

Thankfully, I Am Number Four does, if only enough to please its core market of teenage boys and their tag-along girlfriends.

Director D. J. Caruso is at the helm of this action-packed teenage thriller centred around an extraordinary young man, John Smith (Alex Pettyfer).

Originally from the planet Lorien, John possesses special powers including amazing strength, speed, dexterity and shining lights that glow from hands (think Iron Man) and has spent his whole life on the run, moving from town to town in an attempt to escape a formidable force that wants him, along with other people like him, dead.

When John and his guardian, Henri (Timothy Olyphant), find themselves in the small town of Paradise, Ohio, his meeting with a beautiful girl named Sarah (Dianna Agron) changes the course of his own and, indeed, the world’s, destiny forever.

I Am Number Four won’t change your life, nor will it receive an Oscar nomination.

But I’m sure director D. J. Cruso wasn’t attempting to reinvent the wheel either and the end result is good popcorn fun with great CGI and plenty of top notch Michael Bay action.

>> Review by Jesse Kuch. I Am Number Four opens at Birch Carroll and Coyle Cairns Cinemas today.

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