Pretty Redundant

Rating: 5/10 (27 January 2011)

Probably one of my least favorite of the super hero genre. I never really cared for the Fantastic Four from the get go against Marvel giants like Spider-Man, the X-Men, and the Hulk. They seemed, how do I putt this, lame? The characters are uninvolving and bore you to death with predictable, campy and almost childish performances. Ioan Gruffudd as a lead was dismal, unheroic and came off as an extremely lackluster protagonists. Chris Evans did his role so pathetically generic I felt like I was watching a bad Saturday morning cartoon. Jessica Alba, even reduced own to her underwear, could not sway me to forgive her pitiful performance. None of the characters came off as likable , and I don't really care if they fail or succeed, so in the end the film basically never even got my full attention. Michael Chiklis' character was the only interesting one really, but that's just one character amongst so many failed ones.
Julian McMahon plays the main antagonists and where as he does pretty decent, two big hitters: (1) his whole story arc seems like a rip-off from the first "Spider-man" film back in 2002, no explanation needed, and (2) he's barely in the movie. I mean at times I literally forgot there was even a villain at all.
The story feels pathetic as well, filled with pointless scenes of juvenile arguments, montages galore, cheesy romantic lines; this film rally works hard to make you cringe at every turn. Compounded is the fact that the film offers little action. There was pretty cool scene at the bridge, but the climatic end battle was incredibly short and was over in under three minutes.
Director Tim Story has reached a new pinnacle though: the biggest waste of millions of dollars I've seen in film making in a long time.