Marval Movie

Fox wants to keep a hold of Fantastic Four for some reason. They want it like a stubborn, spoiled child wants the toy that another kid wants. They are so desperate that they will take its source material and  bastardize it to appeal to youth in order to "modernize" and "make accessible" when its was never meant to be that in the first place, and they just end up embarrassing themselves and the people that have to endure it.

We open in a classroom where a young boy named Reed Richards tells his class that he wants to be the first man to be teleported, the others mock him but one boy named Ben believes in him, for whatever reason. Owen Judge who plays young Reed, gives one of the worst performances you will see in a long time. Years later, at their school science fair, now Reed is played by Miles Teller and Ben by Jamie Bell, they make a working teleporter, they get it work on a miniature airplane and get no praise for this huge scientific breakthrough. However there just so happens to be a Dr. Franklin Storm (Reg E. Cathy), a scientist for the government that's on the lookout for talent in a local schools science fair, makes sense. He and his daughter Sue (Kate Mara) offer him a position at their top of the range building that supports geniuses.

We also get Sue's reckless but skilled brother Johnny, played by Michael B. Jordan. Then we have Victor Von Doom (guess what role he'll play in all this), played by Toby Kebbell, a late twenties, early thirties man who is sort-of stuck-up and kinda a genius that could maybe work with others, I really don't know.

This entire movie is a victim of the modern isu terkini of the hipsters. It takes characters that were previously adults and reverts them to their early twenties in order to appeal and engage the more youthful demographic that will see the movie, at least that's the mind-set of the lazy executives behind the movie.

I was somewhat eager for this movie when I learned that Josh Trank would be filling the directing chair. I predicted he would do good work at the end of my Chronicle review, you can tell that he's a talented filmmaker but he has this rotten-to-the-core script with bizarre and stupid ideas that don't do anybody any favors.

The visual effects are terrible, poorly rendered, cheep looking and unconvincing. I am shocked that a big Hollywood superhero movie could produce some of the worst C.G.I. that you'll see this year. On-top of that there is a cold color tone that persists throughout the film, it all looks cold and uninviting.

All of this then culminates into what is probably one of the worst action climaxes that I have ever seen. Completely un-engaging and lacking any kind of brains.

There is nothing fantastic, spectacular, or even anything subpar in this film. In this time when we can get a good depiction of The Guardians of the Galaxy then there can be no excuse for getting the Fantastic Four this wrong, there isn't even an excuse for making this bad a film.

Rating: 1 star out of 4