Fantastic Bore

Rating: 3/10 (2 July 2008)

This is a good example on how NOT to do make a comic-book conversation. It is poor written, has some poor casting, moves to far away from the comics and is at best described as so-so.
The basic plot of the film is that it shows the origins of the Fantastic Four and Doctor Doom. The film shows Reed Richards and Ben Grimm looking for funding and assistance in research to conduct research in cosmic rays and go to Richards old university friend Victor von Doom. He agrees and goes with them into space to his own space station with his girlfriend Sue Storm and her brother Johnny. After exposer to the cosmic rays all five of them gain superpowers. The Fantastic Four become famous in America and set out to be superheroes, whilst Doctor Doom's company starts to crumble and he looks for revenge against the group.
The Fantastic Four is a bit harder to make they some other superheroes from Marvel, it can't be made to be like X-Men and it doesn't have the emotional depth of Spiderman. It tries to be a light kids film, but ignores the fact that Doctor Doom can be sadistic and that he is a tyrant. The casting for the film was worst, Jessica Alba was too young to play Sue Storm, Ioan Gruffudd isn't a good actor, Julian McMahon is too pretty and not sinister enough to Doctor Doom and Michael Chiklis is not good looking enough to be Ben Grimm (but he was decent as the thing). The film didn't have a good plot, it was too predictable and just not exciting. It was hard to care for any of the characters. It didn't have the impact like other superhero films. The movie is also disloyal to the comics, Doctor Doom was the ruler of his home country, not an industrialist. Doctor Doom was also around before the Fantastic Four were around and it was Reed Richards who he blamed for it.
The film basically goes nowhere fast.