Mediocre at Best

Rating: 4/10 (11 July 2005)

Mediocre. Could have been a whole lot better. The sky should have been the limit with "Fantastic Four", but the movie stayed grounded for two excruciating hours. First off all, no one cares about The Thing's little pity party, or whether Mr. Fantastic and Invisible Women end up together, and about half the movie was spent on these two insignificant things. And the Human Torch's little rebellion should've stopped halfway through the movie, not lasted until the end, unresolved. Character development is crucial to any genre, but "Fantastic Four" seemed more like a seventh grade short story then a legacy that demanded a good big screen transfer. And being an action film, we wanted just a little butt kicking along with deep characters. We got neither. The first big action scene was a problem CAUSED by the Fantastic Four, and went way too long. The second actually had potential, but was over way too quickly.(It only lasted for about the last ten minutes). I was very disappointed with this movie. Marvel has it's good and bad films of late, and while this was no "X-Men", it didn't even beat "Daredevil" in my book. The characters in "Daredevil" actually had depth, while those in the Fantastic Four were about as thick as a sheet of paper.