Rise

Rating: 7/10 (3 July 2007)

Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer is one of this year most awaited summer blockbuster and for me this got to be the most improvement of them all compare to Spiderman 3 and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. Or maybe the first one was pretty bad that it make this one look good, but for what it was this one is pretty entertaining.
Synopsis: Fantastic 4 have a new mission, stop the Silver Surfer who has been terrorizing the planet after they learned that which ever planet the Silver Surfer visited, the planet dies within 8 days.
I thought the film was very entertaining. The story is pretty good specially there is more stuff going on, though not much more it looks a whole lot more. It actually kinda has a lot of content that are similar to first movie. I like the idea where they reintroduce Dr. Von Doom to create a tense atmosphere. Though, I’m kind of disappointed that not much of character development at all, except for they have girlfriend.
Silver Surfer got to be one of the best villains out there, and I’m glad they decide to choose him for this installation because he just doesn’t only look awesome, his ability is absolutely brilliant. Unfortunately in this movie he was not able to show much of his ability and the only time you will see him doing anything is flying away from Torch and fighting with the army, which both scenes lasted just a few minutes.
Apart from that it was the same old Fantastic Four with a little more action that is not really related to its villain. Mr. Fantastic and Invisible girl look much older than before. Torch gets much more screen time but somehow not as funny and memorable as the first and The Thing, what does actually the Thing do in this movie? Not really the part of the team at all.
Despite complaining I got to say the movie was fun to watch. It is the same old mindless comical movie like the first movie but with vast improvement in CGI and much faster pace action and with more budget they now able to fight in different part of the world which is more pleasure to watch. Good for what it is.
Recommendation: Yes, Watch It, Compare To The First This Is 10 Times Better.
Reason to Watch: Silver Surfer.
Reason Not To: Too Comical (But That What The Movie Go For).
Rating: 7/10 (Grade: B-).
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