The Pre-fab Four Ride Again...

Rating: 1/10 (15 October 2007)

It was bad enough the first time around: bad writing (the Fantastic Four become the Fantastic Five, for no apparent reason, yet come to be known as THE FANTASTIC FOUR), bad acting (if the guy who played Doom could just learn to project a little; or to act, maybe...), bad direction (the bland leading the bland)- bad movie. To think that the second go-'round would be even worse! Inconceivable... Until one considers the fact that what we're seeing here is THE RISE OF SECOND UNIT CINEMA. For the record, SUC is cinema that is co-directed by special effects geeks (in particular, graduates of the cgi school of cinema) or movies that play out like one long, drawn out stuntman's demo reel. (Take your pick.) THE FANTASTIC 4 2 will definitely get a RISE out of moviegoers fed up with movies directed, for all intents and purposes, by the fx guys.