I'm not a big fan of Fantastic Four to begin with, I think the characters are far from the word 'cool', in exception to Human Torch, all of the rest seem corny to say the least and when the first two movies came around, I am still adamant that I'm not a fan to this franchise but then I heard that Fox were about to reboot this Marvel property and cast Miles Teller and Michael B. Jordan, arguably two of the most gifted young stars today followed with Kate Mara, Jamie Bell and Toby Kebbell, I was intrigued and not to mention the Director, Josh Trank that made it big with Chronicle, the movie that propelled Dane DeHaan and Michael B. to superstardom, this movie had the factors to become something great. Unfortunately, numbers of problems from the set and forced re-shoots delivered a bad apple even before the trailer was launched, you can just feel a dark aura oozing from this production but enough bashing, let's just get straight into me destroying this movie scene by scene, well most of the scenes.
In the beginning (and by the looks of it, the end as well), young Reed meets young Ben and they started to build a teleportation device and then the highschool version, 7 years later from the beginning entered the school science competition with the developed device that can teleport a matter and bring it back in one piece, more or less that led to them meeting with Franklin Storm and Sue Storm, both of them recruited Reed to the Baxter Institute to work on Reed's formula and then Franklin recruited Victor Von Doom to this project where Victor can work with Reed to achieve breakthrough in science and then Franklin recruited his trouble yet gifted son, Johnny who has daddy and sibling issues (what is it with Hollywood and daddy issues?) and then the movie continues with montage after montage of Johnny welding metal parts, Sue creating an environment suit, Reed and Victor sketching on the board and erasing them as well...it's getting kinda boring reading my writing, isn't it? Where's the action? Where are the superpowers? Well, you're not getting them anytime soon! The movie runs about 1 hour and 35 minutes and all of those stuff I just wrote, they took 40 MINUTES LONG! And you're not even getting any action after those excruciating 40 minutes, no, after the team of Reed, Victor, Johnny and Ben (I don't really know the importance of Ben to this movie) entered the other realm or as they call it, "Planet Zero" and get exposed to the cosmic/energy shower, oh, and by the way, Sue gets her power just by typing the computer and getting Reed, Ben and Johnny back, just fyi, leaving Victor in Planet Zero to be gobbled by this green-ish energy ooze, rendering everyone to think that he is dead. Oh boy, this is getting interesting, right? They're FINALLY getting their powers, well, fuck you, you're not getting action anytime soon! The movie goes on a year after the initial exposure to find Reed on the run from the government leaving Ben in his "rocky" situation only to be used as a weapon by the military with Johnny and Sue being trained to join Ben as the United States armed assets, this is one hour into the movie. To speed things up, Reed got captured by the government with Ben's help - they build another teleportation device - return to Planet Zero - finding Victor Von Doom still alive - brings him back - Victor kills all of the staff, including Franklin with only his mind - goes back to Planet Zero and converting the teleportation device into earth sucking device - the Un-Fantastic Four follow Doom to Planet Zero and killing a god with ease - and then they joke their way to the credits - The End. Seriously, that's the movie, I'm not exaggerating in telling the story as the whole movie goes like that, we have to endured over one hour of nothing to get to the short awaited action, it's like going down on a girl for hours just to get a fucking quickie out of it.
It builds like a science film than a superhero movie which I don't mind because Ant-Man designed to be a heist film but Ant-Man showcased his powers before the final battle and there is a danger approaching, building the hype of the final battle, in this movie there is literally no imminent threat to earth towards the end, Doctor Doom just swiftly returned, creating the danger, battled with the team and ended that fucking fast, I mean for a guy who is basically a god at that point, Doom got killed or vaporized so damn quick in just under 5 minutes, I think and while I'm on Doom right now, the look of this villain is so hideous, I think this Doom is the worst looking bad guy of all time, even the last Doom played by Julian McMahon is a better looking Doom than this pile of crap. The other thing is the chemistry between the titular characters, for a superhero family, you'd expect a dynamic between the four of them but nope, you're not getting that too, there is no love interest with Reed and Sue, there is no brother-sister love between Sue and Johnny, only jealousy and hate, there is no best friend love between Reed and Ben, only hate, it's like the whole movie is based from hatred...and pure darkness...and boredom.
I have to agree with all of the critics out there that deemed this the worst superhero movie of all time, hell even Elektra scored better than this garbage, I have no disrespect for the cast and Josh Trank, I still believe that they are just the most talented bunch I'd ever seen but I just feel they made a mistake with this piece. I give this movie a SUCKY SUCK SUCK which is like 4 or 3.5 in the scoring table.