This reboot is set when Reed Richards are still in his pre-university days (I guess? They're still making potato electricity and baking soda volcano. That's like primary school tho). He met Doctor Storm and his adopted daughter Susan and was invited to bring his little science project to a bigger level. He is then joined by Victor Domashev Von Doom, a troubled yet brilliant scientist and Johnny Storm, the biological son of Dr. Storm. They figured out a way of inter-dimensional travel and because of bad decisions they got exposed to a strange energy that gave them powers.
Up until the reviews hit, I was giving Fant4stic the benefit of the doubt. But the abysmal reviews were released and boy, I just had to watch bad movies in cinemas to be objective; I watched Jupiter Ascending in cinemas and I enjoyed it. The buildup to the trip to Planet Zero was good. It had potential and it has a good foundation for a team chemistry. But then the reason for our 'heroes' to go on a trip was based on the notion that this was a drunk decision. That's super stupid. We still had some good sequences on the planet. And I think the film peaked when Reed was trying to check on Ben right after they got back. The film tried to keep the momentum up when we saw them being contained. But then everything went dramatically downhill after the time jump. The time jump was stupid. We missed them as characters and also chemistry-wise. Ben suffered from this the most. I mean, one scene in the 2005 Fantastic Four had more emotion than this whole movie.
I really liked the cast though. They are criminally underused and possibly underappreciated. Not only in their on-screen work. But the fact they still have to promote a film that they haven't seen has to be appreciated. They probably going to hate it but it is their job. The rest of the cast is good too. I like Toby Kebbell in movies I've seen him in like RockNRolla or even Wrath of the Titans. As Doctor Storm, I liked Reg E Cathey. I like him from House of Cards. I also like that despite the horrific and bashed FF films, the always-Doomed franchise is always the most progressive one. The old franchise saw the movies being the first superhero movie to have a black director and the first ever comic-book crossover. This film has a race switch in one of the lead characters (the 2005 films had Ben's gf also race-switched). Also give some credit to Josh Trank who at least we can see his effort to make a watchable film from the first half of the movie. The last battle at the other planet is so badly directed and framed, not to mention the awful CGI. I think the one that's dangerous in this kind of environment might be Simon Kinberg, he's the studio puppy.
Let's talk about the CGI and some of the movie's creative decisions. Why the fuck doesn't The Thing wear any pants? Why don't we have more insight to Ben Grimm's life? Why was he hitting his own name with a baseball in the trailers? Why does he play baseball? Why does the CGI so bad all over the film? Why doesn't Miles Teller show any sign of enthusiasm and spirit in the last battle? Why do we have so many deleted scenes? Why is the mysterious alien energy was green in color? Why doesn't Doc Doom explodes the team's head if he could? Why did Doc Doom die if his the big baddie? Did Doom die so the franchise could be saved? Is Toby Kebbell available for his comments? Why doesn't Fox give more money for the movie's budget? Why didn't Josh Trank exit the film when his vision was tampered? Why Why Why? I got frustrated with this movie so bad. At the end of the movie, I genuinely thought, that was actually passable. And then I got thinking about the movie and how it free-fell halfway the movie. It was frustrating to have an exciting buildup but jackshit materialized instead. Fantastic Four (what happened to the The in the title by the way?): rated 1/4 [this is so low, I haven't rated a movie this low for so long]
Let's add the rough cut version of this movie to the short list of movies I want to see but probably never would. So far the list only includes World War Z with the war ending.
Whenever you have a bad day or you're forced to do something you don't want to do: just remember Josh Trank had to do damage control for a film he doesn't believe in anymore. Look at his face. That's the I'm-willing-to-say-anything-to-get-paid-and-get-the-fuck-out-of-here face.
Up until the reviews hit, I was giving Fant4stic the benefit of the doubt. But the abysmal reviews were released and boy, I just had to watch bad movies in cinemas to be objective; I watched Jupiter Ascending in cinemas and I enjoyed it. The buildup to the trip to Planet Zero was good. It had potential and it has a good foundation for a team chemistry. But then the reason for our 'heroes' to go on a trip was based on the notion that this was a drunk decision. That's super stupid. We still had some good sequences on the planet. And I think the film peaked when Reed was trying to check on Ben right after they got back. The film tried to keep the momentum up when we saw them being contained. But then everything went dramatically downhill after the time jump. The time jump was stupid. We missed them as characters and also chemistry-wise. Ben suffered from this the most. I mean, one scene in the 2005 Fantastic Four had more emotion than this whole movie.I really liked the cast though. They are criminally underused and possibly underappreciated. Not only in their on-screen work. But the fact they still have to promote a film that they haven't seen has to be appreciated. They probably going to hate it but it is their job. The rest of the cast is good too. I like Toby Kebbell in movies I've seen him in like RockNRolla or even Wrath of the Titans. As Doctor Storm, I liked Reg E Cathey. I like him from House of Cards. I also like that despite the horrific and bashed FF films, the always-Doomed franchise is always the most progressive one. The old franchise saw the movies being the first superhero movie to have a black director and the first ever comic-book crossover. This film has a race switch in one of the lead characters (the 2005 films had Ben's gf also race-switched). Also give some credit to Josh Trank who at least we can see his effort to make a watchable film from the first half of the movie. The last battle at the other planet is so badly directed and framed, not to mention the awful CGI. I think the one that's dangerous in this kind of environment might be Simon Kinberg, he's the studio puppy.
Let's talk about the CGI and some of the movie's creative decisions. Why the fuck doesn't The Thing wear any pants? Why don't we have more insight to Ben Grimm's life? Why was he hitting his own name with a baseball in the trailers? Why does he play baseball? Why does the CGI so bad all over the film? Why doesn't Miles Teller show any sign of enthusiasm and spirit in the last battle? Why do we have so many deleted scenes? Why is the mysterious alien energy was green in color? Why doesn't Doc Doom explodes the team's head if he could? Why did Doc Doom die if his the big baddie? Did Doom die so the franchise could be saved? Is Toby Kebbell available for his comments? Why doesn't Fox give more money for the movie's budget? Why didn't Josh Trank exit the film when his vision was tampered? Why Why Why? I got frustrated with this movie so bad. At the end of the movie, I genuinely thought, that was actually passable. And then I got thinking about the movie and how it free-fell halfway the movie. It was frustrating to have an exciting buildup but jackshit materialized instead. Fantastic Four (what happened to the The in the title by the way?): rated 1/4 [this is so low, I haven't rated a movie this low for so long]Let's add the rough cut version of this movie to the short list of movies I want to see but probably never would. So far the list only includes World War Z with the war ending.
Whenever you have a bad day or you're forced to do something you don't want to do: just remember Josh Trank had to do damage control for a film he doesn't believe in anymore. Look at his face. That's the I'm-willing-to-say-anything-to-get-paid-and-get-the-fuck-out-of-here face.
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