A Terrible waste of time

Rating: 2/10 (18 August 2014)

I have never been a big fan of the fantastic four in the comics or as characters so this film was already behind before it began with me but I still gave it a chance and oh my did it suck. The story starts with broke scientist Reed Richards proposing to his old friend/enemy Victor Von Doom an experiment in space that could help cure disease. Along with Sue Storm, Johnny Storm and Ben Grimm they go into space and after an accident they all return with there own unique abilities. Now the main two that are focused on is Reed and Sue and there past and present relationships, the guy they got to play Reed is terrible and really lacks the acting chops to play a character like this. Also even though Jessica Alba is beautiful she is not a very good actress and she fails to deliver a good performance as Sue. The side characters are a mixed bag I actually thought Chris Evans performance as Johnny Storm was good and he was easily the best character of the film. I also thought the guy they got to play Ben was good and he managed to make you feel for him in his situation. But one of my favourite villains in marvel is DR Doom but he is not well done hear in fact it is pretty poor with his motivation and real presence in the film not really mattering and taking a real back seat to the Fantastic four. Another side character you meet briefly is a blind woman that is meant to be trying to help ben get through life but it is just so hard to buy as you only see her like 2 or 3 times. The story takes bad tropes from past comic book films that did it much better and it just is nonsense half of the time and peoples motivations are not really well enough explained. The script is also trash and I later found out that Chris Evans made up a lot of his lines which makes sense as he is really the only one who has any decent lines in the whole film. The style being the fantastic four you would think would be great but it isn't I mean the Human Torch looks cool and heck even Doom looks cool when he becomes Dr Doom but the others looks silly and the whole cinematography is just off. So overall avoid this film and look forward to the new reboot that is coming.