It doesn't get much worse.

Rating: 1/10 (14 July 2005)

Well, I've seen the Fantastic Four. And it is terrible. As in not fantastic at all. Allow me to explain what I'm talking about: After being persuaded to go see it with a friend of mine, we went to go see it. I was already hesitant, as I figured from the trailer, I've probably seen the best parts of the movie, and I'm wasting money. Well, the first hour or so of the movie at first I thought, was strangely OK. They get their powers, and start studying them. I found the one part of how they had to cope with living together even funny. The development of the villain, Dr. Doom, was bad. They should've just used Willem Dafoe's character from the first Spiderman. I'm not kidding. Just take the footage from Spiderman, and place it in. The same circumstances of why he becomes evil and all of that are practically identical. However, at around the hour marker, the fire alarm went off, and the two of us were forced to leave the theater. I should've taken that as a sign. A few days later, with a free ticket in hand (thanks to the false alarm), I went back to see it a second time. The first hour was OK at best again. However, with almost brutal accuracy, I predicted the ending down to the smallest detail, and I was only halfway done with the film. I began to realize the pointlessness of the conflict between our heroes and the villain, the lack of development, the lack of story, the lack of purpose. The dialogue was dry. And the ending was exactly as I expected, only far shorter and anticlimactic to the most unbearable you can imagine. You will leave this movie either disappointed, or you will be too dazed from its stupidity to realize you just witnessed something terrible. I hate this movie. It's SO bad. And if you don't believe me... well, maybe you should just this time. I wouldn't want to punish you with seeing it.