A movie where all went wrong.

Rating: 3/10 (3 May 2007)

Despite the part of the cast that is doubtlessly performing in an outstanding manner (that is, Michael Chiklis as Ben - my childhood favorite- and Julian McMahon as Dr. Doom), the whole movie has gone all wrong.
Not even the great visual effects can make up for the tangled and stupefied plot. The fight scenes are quite spectacular (although the one on the bridge is pretty low) and the make-up artists have done very well. While Jessica Alba I consider good, and I have already reviewed the acting of Michael Chiklis, the other two of the four are profoundly miscast. Ioan Gruffudd is totally uninteresting (he is supposed to be the lead main brainy and clever superhero, remember) and Chris Evans is also lost in his role which I would not have considered to be as tough as to get anybody lost in it at all (an easy-going careless torch-man)
How can you mess up a very simple first-of-a-franchise movie about the supposedly touching background story of supposedly nice and evil, respectively, supposedly interesting action heroes? This is a riddle to me.
I hope the second part will do better. There is so much more to these characters than what has been shown here.