Michael Chikilis and Chris Evans are only bright spots of lame sequel

Rating: 4/10 (27 August 2014)

Some of Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer is so ludicrous, I wondered whether it was originally conceived as a spoof comedy of the first more enjoyable movie
A pre Captain America Chris Evans returning as Human Torch is the only highlight. Loan Gruffudd is annoyingly smug as Mr Fantastic, Jessica Alba once again is miscast as Sue Storm, but unlike in the first movie her acting is off here, and I'm sure she will consider this a career low. Michael Chikilis is solid as The Thing, but once again Julian McMahon is dire. He has never been a good actor. Though he did manage to convince Dannii Minogue he loved her enough, for her to finance (to the point of almost bankruptcy) his attempts at an acting career, so maybe I'm misjudging him, and I've just never sen him be good in anything!! Here his Victor Von Doom is pure pantomime in the worst possible sense.
I thought we were going to get an interesting ending with an important death, but the movie cops out, and goes for a safe happier ending.
Hopefully the upcoming reboot avoids all the mistakes from this movie.