My favorite film genre are comic book movies so trust me when I say this movie is terrible! The plot is Reed Richards (Miles Teller) helps create a machine with the ability to teleport people to other dimensions. When Reed and his friends test this out, things go awry in the dimension they visit, and return to Earth with new cosmic superpowers. Believe it or not, the best scene of this film is when they get their powers. That's literally it! As soon as the movie starts, the pacing is so slow, that it almost gave me a headache. The script is dull and it feels like every actor in the movie's performance is phoned in. Plus, when watching this movie from start to finish, for a movie that feels so dull, it also feels very rushed. It's like the movie starts with Act I, skips Act II, and goes straight to Act III. It's like a whole chunk of this movie is missing. And the action, Oh God, the action in this movie. Guess what?! IT'S NONE-EXISTENT!!! The trailers lied to you!!!There is no action. The only interesting piece of action that comes within this film is in the form of a 20 second highlight reel for a government presentation.
The other piece of action comes in the form of a disappointing boss battle with the film's villain, Dr. Doom, played by Toby Kebbell. The picture you see above is the character of Doom, which is a far-cry from how he looks in the comic books. In the comic books, he is an evil war-lord of a fictional country called Latveria, and whose only purpose in life is to conquer and rule over all. This Doom is a mutated chrome burrito who wants to destroy Earth because he was left in another dimension for a year. It's easy to understand why someone would be mad about that but "Come On!" His actions leading up to this makes absolutely zero sense! Doom comes across a new team of teleporters, asking for their help, is taken back to the military base to receive medical treatment and to have tests ran on him, then decides he wants to go back home to the new dimension, but not without killing every one he sees and everyone on Earth. This is not only one of the worst film renditions of Doom ever, but also one of the worst villain performances ever. Surprisingly, Doom is not the only unlikable character in this movie. Even our "heroes" of Reed Richards (Miles Teller) Sue Storm (Kate Mara) Johnny Storm (Michael B. Jordan) and Ben Grimm (Jamie Bell) are terrible at acting their parts. Their characters just feel so shallow and uncaring that when they finally become "a team" at the end, it feels unearned and undeserved.
Fantastic Four has never had a great representation on film, but this movie takes the cake as the WORST VERSION OF THEM ALL. It's so bad that it actually makes me feel ANGRY!!! This movie tries so hard to be different from any previously released comic book movie that it ultimately ends up being flat-out boring and even disgusting to look at. Do yourself a favor folks and don't even attempt to see this poor excuse of a superhero movie. In all honesty, 20th Century Fox should've never released this movie! Fantastic Four gets a 1.5 out of 5.
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