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Jul 8, 2005 · Fantastic Four: Directed by Tim Story. With Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis. A group of astronauts gain superpowers after a cosmic radiation exposure and must use them to oppose the plans of their enemy, Doctor Victor Von Doom.
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- Action, Adventure, Fantasy
- Tim Story
- 2005-07-08
An accident causes their physical form to drastically change. Reed, Sue, Johnny and Ben must learn to harness their powers and work as a team to stop Victor, who is hell bent on destroying Earth. The one thing that stood out to me about Fantastic Four is just how unbelievably dull it is.
- Fantastic Dour
- Verdict
By Jim Vejvoda
Posted: Aug 6, 2015 11:19 pm
Aesthetically drab and dramatically inert, this reboot of Fantastic Four manages to actually make the previous two FF movies seem better in hindsight. No, this Fantastic Four isn’t a total disaster – that is until the last act where it goes from being a dour science-fiction film to a ridiculous superhero movie that fails to capture the family dynamic, fun, or spirit of the classic Marvel comic.
Fantastic Four follows scientific genius Reed Richards (Miles Teller) from grade school to his full scholarship ride to the Baxter Foundation where Dr. Franklin Storm (Reg E. Cathey) needs his help – along with that of his adopted daughter Sue (Kate Mara) and troubled former pupil Victor Von Doom (Toby Kebell -- yes, the film ditched his much loathed initial moniker of “Viktor Domichev”) – to build the first interdimensional travel machine. Obviously, they succeed but not without Reed, Sue, Victor, and late additions Johnny Storm (Michael B. Jordan) and Ben Grimm (Jamie Bell) all becoming altered into super-beings by the effects of the Negative Zone. Living up to his namesake, Doom subsequently decides to destroy the Earth so it’s up to the titular quartet to stop him.
This Fantastic Four is rife with missed opportunities. Reed and Ben are lifelong pals yet only have a few scenes together as adults. There is no chemistry or interplay of note between any of the four title characters. I’m pretty sure Ben never even speaks to Sue until the last scene of the movie. Sue, the most mature and responsible of them, seems to like Reed, but not in any romantic way. She’s also left out of the team’s initial, life-altering adventure into the Negative Zone, becoming affected by accident as they return. While there is a small dose of “body horror” to their transformation, there’s no exploration of how they’ve been affected emotionally by what’s happened to them. They return and are essentially sedated and put under observation until the film smash cuts to “one year later” and they already have their powers largely in check.
A sulking Ben is resigned to his condition, Johnny actually enjoys being used as a tool for the government, and Sue is, well, trying to master her powers at this secret government base – operated by an incessantly gum-chewing Tim Blake Nelson -- even as she says she’s not going to become one of their tools. And Reed? Well, he fled. Yes, he escapes, goes on the run a la Bruce Banner, and in that time has pieced together his own containment suit while also trying to track down Ben so he can help cure him.
Fantastic Four isn’t unwatchable or flat-out awful. It’s aggressively mundane, and devoid of energy, wonder, wit and whimsy. For a movie about people seeking what else is out there, Fantastic Four never looks for a spark of life in itself. It’s all as cold and grey as the soulless buildings the characters are entombed in throughout.
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Fantastic Four (styled as FANT4STIC) is a 2015 superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name. Directed by Josh Trank , who co-wrote the screenplay with Jeremy Slater and Simon Kinberg , it stars Miles Teller , Michael B. Jordan , Kate Mara , Jamie Bell and Toby Kebbell .
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