Damn the critics!

Rating: 7/10 (23 July 2005)

Of course i was ready to be disappointed after reading every critics in US harshly bashing this movie and all of the people involved in it - and of course i really should thank these so-called critics since i was pleasantly surprised with the result. F4 is OK, better than just OK; it's enjoyable - it has the simple clear fun comic book feeling of their creators Stan Lee and Jack Kirby back in the 60's. and for me it was almost more than i hoped for in the first place. F4 is one of the best comic book adaptation so far. Only X MEN 2 and BATMAN RETURNS are superior, OK far superior; F4 is as good as X MEN and SPIDERMAN 2 and inches away above SPIDERMAN and BATMAN BEGINS. And please don't bother compare with DAREDEVIL, HULK or worse again ELEKTRA, CATWOMAN, THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN, SUPERMAN (yes, not all of the movies from the 70's were masterpieces), SPAWN or THE PUNISHER as there are some of the worst movies ever made in any genre. I can understand that both critics and fans were dubious when heard about the chosen director of this project. Tim Story is no Bryan Singer,Tim Burton, Christopher Nolan or even Joel Schumacher (sic!); he was in fact the director of 2 terrible idiotic movies. and Jessica Alba is no Michelle Pfeiffer or Halle Berry, Julian Mac Nahon is no Ian Mac Kellen, Ioan gruffud is no Patrick Stewart, Chris Evans is no Alan Cumming... i could go on and on with the different names attached to the project. But finally everyone involved did their job and they did a good job. The director is not as talented as Bryan Singer (he did such a wonderful job on x men 2!)that's for sure but he did a decent job though; the actors were pretty close to their character and Chilkis and Evans were particularly good. Even Alba did good. That's true she is way too young to play Sue but if you want to blame someone, blame our youth male oriented obsessed society; not the actress. The screenplay was fairly true to the essence of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby'comic books. anyway, hats off to everyone involved here and hopefully F4 will be as enjoyable as part one.