Fantastic Four Review (2015)

Fantastic Four

  Here we have yet another reboot from the Marvel universe, only unlike Spiderman, this isn't getting better. Fantastic 4 doesn't start off bad. Miles Teller and Jamie Bell are our leaders into the story and I thought they were quite likeable. That, or maybe I'm just a biased fan of the actors. ANYWAY!

  It's not a secret that this movie wasn't popular at all with critics, winning itself a 9% out of 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Ouch. Do I think it deserves that low of a score? Mmm, yeah. But before I get to the many problems of the film, I'll tell you the few things I liked. Firstly, their team had a lot of chemistry in the beginning. I bought their friendship and liked them as a group. Secondly, I really dug how they got their powers and their physical reactions to their powers, despite the CGI being absolutely horrific.   

  I kept thinking the movie would get better after this, but it gets soooo much worse. Once they get their powers, (Which is about 45 minutes into the movie) they immediately become products of the government and then the movie rushes through their training so that they already know how to control their powers. Then an hour into the movie (mind you the movie is only like an hour and 45 minutes) Dr. Doom comes into the picture. While he is pretty menacing and his powers are cool, he was hardly in the movie at all. I'm not even exaggerating, like what the heck. Miles Teller, Jamie Bell and Kate Mara seem to clock out on the 45 minute mark, probably because they realized how terrible it was, and the only one really trying is Michael B. Jordan. This movie was such a waste of great actors and such a waste of a director with so much potential. Fox gave the artists no liberty and now they are paying for it with this piece of garbage. Not only would Fantastic Four have benefited from a lot of re-writes to the script, it would benefited from being thrown into that teleporting machine and shipped off to a different planet. The ending was terrible, the actors had nothing to work with, and the studio tinkered so much with the end half that it felt like a completely different film. The more you think about it, the worse it gets. 2 out of 10 stars. (Skip It)