Run Time: 100 min
Fantastic Four (aka Fant4stic) is a new superhero movie
and ironically enough, the fourth live action film adaption of the popular,
same named superhero team from Marvel comics. The movie is directed by Josh Trank
and features a talented, young cast of Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate
Mara, Jamie Bell and Toby Kebbell. I never got a chance to check out the
unreleased 1994 film titled The Fantastic Four, or 2007s Rise of the
Silver Surfer, but I have seen the 2005 movie. Honestly, I must say
that the 2005 Fantastic Four film is one of the worst comic book movies
I have ever seen and this new reboot surprised me in the sense that I truly
didn’t think that the franchise could get any worse.
Early on in this movie,
five young scientists work together on a project to create a teleporting
machine that will take them to an alternate universe. Following a freak
accident on a newly found planet, they soon gain unique powers while one of
them is left stranded. Reed Richards (Teller) can stretch his body into unreal
shapes. Johnny Storm (Jordan) gains the ability to shoot fireballs and fly. Sue
Storm (Mara) can become invisible and create force-fields. Ben Grimm (Bell) has
transformed into a stone-bodied superhuman. Together, these four must team up
to save Earth from Victor Von Doom (Kebbell), who was left behind in the
accident and is now ready to abuse his own powers.
Put aside the comic book
genre for a moment, this new Fantastic Four movie is one of the worst
films I have ever seen. I look for a summer superhero movie like this to
entertain me on some level, and this movie utterly failed to do that. Everyone
involved just seemed so uninterested and bland, starting with the four title
heroes that we as an audience are supposed to connect with. That is a sad thing
to say, especially for a guy like Miles Teller, who blew it out of the park
with his performance in 2014s Whiplash. Ultimately, this disaster of a
film is the opposite of fantastic as they couldn’t even pull off decent visual
effects with their $122 million budget. Furthermore, the storyline was just
plain boring and spent far too much time building up to absolutely nothing. If
you’re making a trip to movies soon, stay away from “Fant4stic”; it is pure
garbage.
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