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Fantastic Four

Fantastic Four

2015
Sci-fi
Fantasy
1h 40m
Fantastic Four centers on four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy. (imdb)
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Fantastic Four

2015
Sci-fi
Fantasy
1h 40m
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Rated 01 Mar 2016
35
8th
I was at the garbage dump today and I almost ran over Josh Trank (he lives there now).
Rated 06 Dec 2015
35
20th
After an okay hour or so the movie skids off the road of entertainment, and crashes somewhere in a ghost town called 'Who Cares?' with the most unrealistic plot device ever. Drunken scientists operating complicated machinery? Impossible! I have my own fantastic four of mangled Toyota Corollas and countless DUI offences to prove that it can't be done! Who doubts me?! You, Mr. Light pole, my old nemesis? I shan't be fooled by your gravitational pull ever again, you onelegged, blurry fiend!
Rated 13 Sep 2015
11
5th
I've seen the future of cinema and tomorrow I'm buying a radio.
Rated 24 Nov 2015
40
20th
So joyless, bland, unengaging and Grimm- I mean, grim. A few body horror moments were interesting and Doom going full-blown Akira was unexpectedly nasty, but it just doesn't mesh with the casting and the superhero mold finale that's forced upon it. So we get another *yawn* origin story drenched in crummy CGI. I recommend Jonathan Hickman's run on the Fantastic Four comic if you want to get an idea of the amazing potential this movie fails to approach or acknowledge.
Rated 29 Nov 2017
30
1st
Sometimes, film studios just don't know when to quit. Why reboot some of the lamest Marvel superheros and recast them as a bunch of kids? Why redo an origin story taking up half the movie and recycle the same villain, only this time, have him played by the most intolerably inept Toby Kebbell? Why? Not called for, not worth it, not good and clearly not appreciated by the masses. Do yourself a favor and turn this movie off before you go sterile from the radiation poisoning.
Rated 17 Aug 2015
35
2nd
I can see where some people are getting that thisnos terrible. Little to no character development, and there are quite a few cheesy lines in there that made me laugh and shake my head at how bad they were. Visuals aren't anything new but they aren't bad and Doom looked off but kinda cool. A darker turn for the series that doesn't quite work because it gets boring story-wise. It's grim, ugly, and not very pleasant to sit through there's no heart here and no effort from the director.
Rated 13 Aug 2015
50
9th
Yes, Fantastic Four is bad. But I'm not sure it is the worst superhero flick ever made. It appears director Josh Trank & his screenwriters set out to make a sci-fi/horror film in the vein of The Fly or Alien. So I'm unsure as to how the finished product had so many aborted subplots & doesn't include around 15 scenes from the theatrical trailer. The body horror scene is okay, as is the reveal of their (misguided) version of Doom. But that's not enough to make up for this hokey & bland picture.
Rated 09 Aug 2015
35
6th
Dark and gritty didn't really work. I appreciate the efforts to make it a bit of a sci-fi horror movie at times, but the cheesy dialogue, sub-par visual effects (in comparison to other movies, still not completely terrible as a whole), and the way they punked Doom in about 20 minutes or so... just a bad time. There were a couple scenes like when Doom first awakens, and when the F4 are first dealing with their problems, but it's too little in a movie that overstays its welcome. Slow and boring.
Rated 12 Aug 2015
67
56th
I'm a huge FF fan. I took my son to see this right before his school year started. We had fun together. We came home and looked through all my old FF comics. It was a great day. BUT.....yeah, the film's a stupendous mess that completely gives up after about an hour and has one of the most low-rent climaxes you'll ever see. It pretty much sucked, I'll admit. Still had a great day, though.
Rated 04 Dec 2020
4
0th
Sometimes seeing a movie you can just tell that there was some bad juju in the making - like karma on display in real time. This film has a disgusting aura about it, which is quite the achievement given how beloved the source is and how easily it can be adapted with the right attitude. This is like a black hole for joy.
Rated 16 Mar 2016
30
21st
Probably not quite the monstrosity that it's been made out to be. To point out the very few positives; some of the design is quite nice, the cast are good(ish), there's a rather nice exploding head sequence & err... that's about it. The plotting is a disaster, the character relationships non-existent, the editing is a mess & much of the CGI dire. Studio interference seems to rear its head throughout also, stifling any chance Trank had of making this largly unneeded superhero entry any good.
Rated 17 Aug 2015
40
4th
So...Reed, Torch, Thing and Doom decide to get drunk and teleport to another dimension. Yes, this actually happens. I think the hate for this flick is a little much but it's simply not a good movie. This actually could have been really good if it wasn't for the half assed script and some lazy performances. The plot actually manages to shatter the limits of comic book absurdity. I will give props for Doctor Doom because he was actually pretty bad ass. It's the reboot we never asked for. 2 STARS
Rated 12 Aug 2015
25
6th
Clearly two movies slapped together in post. Neither of them were any good in the first place, though the one that is horribly generic, stilted and blandly superheroic is much worse than the one that tries new things. (You can guess where I fall on the Trank/Fox debate.) Everyone's miscast, no one can handle the awful script (Miles Teller worst of all), there's no action and when there IS action it's worse than the parts with no action. A debacle that needs several books written on its creation.
Rated 10 Aug 2015
38
10th
Kind of incredible. The first 30ish minutes are like they belong to a completely different movie. The last 40 are some of the most lazy big budget Hollywood filmmaking you'll see this year. Almost needs to be seen to be believed. I really hope this doesn't ruin anyone's career.
Rated 07 Aug 2015
20
7th
Fantastic Four is a bad movie, an awful superhero movie, and a terrible way to restart a franchise. If it was supposed to get us interested in the Fantastic Four, it's a failure. But it doesn't want to do that. Fox needed to make a movie to keep the rights to the property; if it also makes some money, that's almost a bonus. It's boring, lazy, uninspired, and one of the least action-packed superhero movies ever.
Rated 23 Apr 2020
3
9th
If by dark you mean shitty, then yes, this was a very dark film. Editor was like "fuck it" at the start or Act III and called it a day.
Rated 09 Jul 2016
6
14th
Even my mom was making fun of this movie haha
Rated 25 Aug 2015
24
10th
I thought at the very least this couldn't be worse than the shitshow of the previous Fantastic Four attempt. While I wasn't technically wrong, a decade later the franchise is equally as bad for all new reasons. Everything about the teenage team is annoying which could have been avoided by making them even slightly older, and the plot is plagued by missteps. To top off everything, the climax is ridiculous, introducing Doom and then killing him off minutes later. At least the first one was funny.
Rated 09 Aug 2015
30
8th
So I watched this a second time. And it's among the worst things I've seen all year. I'm open to the idea that this MAY be a victim of our extremely-high expectations for comic book movies, but that's not an excuse for the shitty story and the (mostly) awful B-list acting. There is SO much here that could have been done SO much better and given SO much more room to breathe. But mostly, it should have just not been done. Or hey - just give it to Marvel Studios. Best part was Doom wrecking shop.
Rated 17 Mar 2018
40
11th
[Spoiler below] This is a film that's popular to hate on, and after the first 30 minutes I was looking forward to calling people out on it. The long build-up to the point they got their powers was actually pretty promising. But then it became a poorly-written mess. The dialogue was trite and lazy, and Dr. Doom - one of the coolest villains in the Marvel universe - is just ruined, then killed off in a 5-minute battle. Oh, and was Reg 'reverb voice' Cathey speaking through a fan?
Rated 15 Aug 2018
6
60th
Definitely in the minority here, but this wasn't bad to me. I understand it's flaws, but the cast themselves fit very well, even if the characters were meh at best thanks to the writing. The slow pace, mature, and more scientific take on the superheroes was actually really cool. It was much more convincing than the previous irritation of F4. The affects are quite mediocre, but I got past them because I genuinely think there is a good movie here, especially in their build up.
Rated 16 Aug 2015
40
4th
Fantastic Bore, sums it up. The dull drawn out origin scenes are everything seen before. Everything is lame and implausible even within the realm of comic book science. There's no chemistry between any of the leads. I don't buy that Reed is this super genius just because he talks like Zuckerburg at a Facebook board meeting. The CGI Thing looks even dopier than the styrofoam 2005 version. The sfx is early 2000 cgi at best. Franklin Storm has an enormous and distracting forehead. Just awful.
Rated 28 Dec 2015
8
4th
I thought that this film had a shot. It had a great cast, a talented young director, and a pretty decent writing team. I was wrong. Fantastic Four is just a mess. The writing is atrocious, the acting is wooden, and even the CGI is a wreck. It's also incredibly poorly paced, as the film seems to just want to set up another one instead of focusing on itself at all. I gave this film a shot, and I was rewarded with absolutely nothing. There's nothing redeeming about Fantastic Four at all.
Rated 08 Aug 2016
4
12th
I don't think Josh Trank knows how to interact with other humans? There's a very bizarre running motif where Sue Storm is shown to like music, and it kind of tells you everything you need to know about the movie. I think I'm willing to give this movie more credit than it deserves because we live in a post Snyderverse world now.
Rated 29 Jan 2016
39
15th
Boring boring boring boring boring! Dr. Doom looked and Thing looked good, that was about all of the enjoyment this has to offer. Why can't they make a good F4 movie? Even the 1994 TV movie was dreadful, and i have a soft spot for those! Even the Silver Surfer movies were brutal. Every other character has been able to make the leap to the silver screen, but this franchise just fails. Miserably. All points go towards it being better than the rest of its direct ilk.
Rated 16 Aug 2015
20
12th
They cut some scenes from the trailer ain't in the movie. Why make doom look nothing like he really does. And that end fight was down right awful.
Rated 07 Aug 2015
15
9th
If you are at the age you are learning to jerk off, you'll find this movie mind blowingly exciting. But I'd advise you to just go ahead and invest more time in your new found hobby instead of wasting your time watching this kids flick marketed as sci-fi/superhero movie.
Rated 12 Aug 2015
55
11th
Yet another origin story, this one marked more by heavy studio interference and a disastrously truncated third act than by its style or performances. Surprisingly, it's not without its redeeming qualities; at times, it evokes 50s science fiction in an agreeable manner, and Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Bell do good work under the circumstances (though Reg Cathey's Dr. Storm is fairly awful). On the whole, though, more a morbid curiosity piece than a viable entertainment.
Rated 07 Aug 2015
1
23rd
Doctor Doom is in and out and killed in less than 20 minutes in a one minute climax from nowhere. AND HE DIDN'T EVEN DO A FOOT DIVE OR USE HIDDEN MISSILES. This is worse than the Roger Corman version.
Rated 16 Aug 2015
30
4th
This film has no plan or clue what it wants to be. If it was made to keep hold of the rights, fine, make it big and dumb and stupid but ENTERTAINING. If you want to make a proper film, don't half - quarter - 100th arse the job. Chronicle was decent and these are 4 good actors, how do you make such a boring load of bollocks as this. One last thing, it's not a 10 percent film, it's not. It isn't much better but still, behave.
Rated 30 Jul 2017
50
33rd
Okay, so this might be due to the fact that my only relationship with the Fantastiv Four universe is the horrible movies they put out a decade ago, and that I've just watched Suicide Squad, and thus know what a proper dumpster fire should look like, but... this wasn't terrible at all. The first half works well enoug and even the bland and rushed second half has its moments. Caaamon! Exploding heads! (admittedly the bar is fairly low these days)
Rated 14 Aug 2015
24
5th
Choppy 1st act builds up nicely. Ben and Reed's relationship is explored briefly then pretty much abandoned. Dan Castelena chews up his small role throughout the movie. Fast forward to the accident. It has serious shades of Cronenberg's "The Fly" and is the last good part. Acts 2 & 3 are terrible with a completely different feel. Chunks of this movie are missing. And then Doom. WTF! Going around popping people's heads like "Scanners". Overpowered UNTIL the climax battle of course. Just DON'T.
Rated 06 Aug 2015
2
17th
This should have been called "the becoming of Fantastic Four". *Okay
Rated 20 Aug 2015
2
5th
It was a very very very very slow movie. Every scene was unbearably long. I couldn't care about the story because I was just waiting for the torture to end. Actually, I didn't hate the story as much as others. Just couldn't enjoy it due to every slow ass scene taking eons.
Rated 16 Oct 2019
45
8th
Retool and reboot of the franchise is not especially *bad*, just a very dull and uninspired film, especially surprising coming as it does in the cycle of "peak" MCU films. Everyone here is going through the motions, missing even the modestly clever repartee from the Gruffold/Chiklis cycle (Bell is a particularly bland incarnation of The Thing). There's something about these GUARDIAN-lite characters which remain engaging, but the shoddy CGI and listless performances make this a bit of a snooze.
Rated 14 May 2016
26
7th
Ugh. This franchise is cursed, by shitting writing and mediocre directing. It needs to be handed over to someone like Jon Favreau who has the experience and chops. Then get a good screenwriter, and some non young adult actors. Focus more on Doom and set him up as a mainstay.
Rated 07 Apr 2018
40
11th
The first half is quite a decent origin story, not necessarily better than the one in the 2005 film but different enough to be pretty interesting. Unfortunately the transformation of the characters into the FF is glaringly worse in comparison and what follows is a weak second half plagued with redundant scenes and rushed, boring action. The average visuals, mediocre acting, stilted dialogues and absence of real chemistry between the underdeveloped characters mar the overall impression even more.
Rated 26 Sep 2015
50
19th
The first hour was interesting and engaging but the final thirty minutes fell flat as someone went mental in the CGI department.
Rated 27 Oct 2015
50
16th
Wonderful cast, horrible editing. Great attempt with young actors to revive this franchise, however someone fucked up real bad and made the movie too short, too basic, too cheap. Pity. Marvel, please do something, your logo is getting tainted.
Rated 31 May 2016
4
0th
One minute it's a sci-fi thriller, then it's a horror film, then it's adventure-y, then it feels like generic by-committee crap. What kills me is that they have such a wealth of stuff to draw from in the source material, and this film ignores basically everything but names and some of the characters' powers. There's just nothing likable about this film, and not much makes sense, and nobody has a character, unless you count "gum-chewing government guy", "dick who catches on fire", etc. F-minus.
Rated 03 Jun 2020
50
21st
Not as terrible as some beloved films... just another Hollywood garbage
Rated 20 Aug 2015
65
12th
Extended cut? Second movie without origin? Hope? This movie simply lacks any story besides "get powers, defeat first foe". Given the tragic nature of most origin storys the fun usually starts after the origin ... but there's nothing there. And the tragic part is way too short. Reed struggling with leaving his friends? Not on screen. Ben angry about being turned into a military bully? Gets about 5 seconds of remorseful pose and a single line of dialog. The Storms get nada.
Rated 15 Nov 2015
53
7th
Fantastic Four is visually great, and the darker tone might have worked if the film wasn't marred by a (virtually) non-existent plot, a terrible script, lacklustre performances, and poor character development. Frankly, the film is boring, a waste of time, and (perhaps luckily) forgettable.
Rated 18 Aug 2015
2
14th
I actually like some of what they try in the first half of the movie: A science-based superhero story. It's when the words "One Year Later" appear on screen that the movie really sinks. Also, this is probably the most INSULAR superhero film yet made, all set in dark rooms and corridors. They never go outside. I miss Spider-Man swinging through New York in the Raimi flicks! Homer Simpson is in this movie.
Rated 10 Jun 2016
20
1st
Nonsense nonsense nonsense rapid finale actual Fantastic Four in a quite forced way for about 2 minutes. So dark you'd think it was a DC film
Rated 04 Aug 2015
40
25th
One long and tedious foreplay that culminates in jizzing its own pants.
Rated 12 May 2017
25
6th
Unfortunately another poor outing for the FF.
Rated 09 Jan 2017
40
45th
The first half of this movie is actually decent, shooting for a light take on a sci-fi/horror theme. It's a nice change of pace for a super hero movie. Then it turns into a wretched by the numbers genre movie with a laugh-out-loud final battle on a set that's straight out of an awful 50's sci-fi b-movie. Fox just should have given Trank a budget and final cut. Now the FF movie brand is worth less than dirt. Good job, guys!
Rated 28 May 2019
35
17th
Studio execs did their damndest to bury the modern-day mythical horror, which the original director gave them, under a third-act layer of plastic American superhero cheese. The studio execs succeeded. I liked the parts that were Josh Trank's instead of some soulless studio yes-man's.
Rated 25 Mar 2018
1
0th
Rage. Furious, screaming rage. Almost the entire movie is Act 1, there's no real superhero action until 1hr20mins...the movie is 1hr36 including credits.
Rated 30 Aug 2015
70
26th
Although it starts off well and has a sleek visual style, Fantastic Four falls into being a choppy and anticlimactic gritty drama whose second half seems thrown together to finish the film in a measly hour and forty minutes. It's a halfway decent film that has a second half that was poorly written and might have been good if it actually took time for its plot and characters unique personalities.
Rated 27 Nov 2016
60
52nd
Shockingly this film was perfectly watchable and not the worst film ever made. The big problem is it's essentially Fantastic Four: Origins, all build up to no pay off. I'd happily watch a sequel
Rated 25 Oct 2015
29
3rd
One of the cheapest looking big studio movies I've ever seen. Everything about or in this movie is dumb, cheap or just ridiculous.The whole narrative seems to consist of plot fragments without any kind of subtext, emotional core, theme, story or character arcs, tonal consistency or purpose, structure, inner logic, sense, etc. It's more of a weird, cheap looking series of images with recurring faces, bad cgi and Kate Mara hair inconsistency in them.
Rated 12 Sep 2015
25
6th
At least the Roger Corman version was FUN.
Rated 03 Sep 2015
42
19th
Pretty decent the first hour, but gets sloppy in the last part of the movie.
Rated 28 Mar 2016
35
14th
Flame off.
Rated 08 Aug 2015
3
5th
'Fantastic Four' squanders every nugget of potential afforded it--from the cast to what could have been an interesting sci-fi horror take on the material--with its underutilized characters, unacceptable production value, and bafflingly rushed and misplaced final acts.
Rated 21 Jul 2017
65
50th
Terrible movie but endlessly fascinating. I'd love to know what went on behind the scenes during production.
Rated 06 Jan 2016
45
17th
A dull, dreary downer of an experience. The film is utterly joyless. And any attempts at levity completely fail. The dialogue was truly awful. The four leads are good actors individually, but none of them come off well at all. Doctor Doom looks stupid. It's all dreadfully boring and the action scenes are paint-by-number crap. The story often makes no sense, and has a number of plot holes. Technically speaking, the film is competent, but that's about all I can say that's good about it.
Rated 22 Aug 2023
40
3rd
The other two Fantastic Four movies weren't good but they were watchable. I have no idea what happened here. I would love to see a postmortem on this movie because Wow! is it bad. I'll start with the good stuff. I like this origin story for the Fantastic Four. It's pretty cool. That's it. The rest is terrible. The script was not good. The dialog was stilted. The casting was really bad. They couldn't have picked five more unlikeable actors. At times I liked the Doom actor but other times I didn't
Rated 31 Oct 2015
72
79th
Rated 13 May 2021
20
3rd
A very bad re-launch attempt; I have had enough of these random origin story attempts. They botched every single character honestly and it has nothing going for it storywise or effects-wise either. It is more like Mediocre Four or Fantatistically Uninteresting.
Rated 07 Oct 2015
28
3rd
It's as if the many screenwriters rock-paper-scissored their way through an outline and ended up with a slapdash, disconnected screenplay that none of the actors can make sense of. A waste of talent and franchise.
Rated 19 Sep 2020
20
4th
What a surprise! When you re-make a shitty film, it's still shitty. *surprised Pikachu*
Rated 14 Jul 2022
66
71st
Look, I get how someone can watch & go "that's bad"... what shatters my mind is any of those people turning to Marvel's sterile cookie cutter crap & thinking "SO GOOD." Your good is just bad but even worse. Here enough of Trank's vision shines through to still work, hinting at what could've been. It may not hit the beats people want (or think they do), but the beats it hits flow with a feeling of family & bond more apropos to FF than any past iteration or sterile MCU potential.
Rated 16 Jan 2016
30
11th
Is it a pretty lame attempt at a Fantastic Four movie; hell yeah. But is it's shittiness overblown? 100%. Fantastic Four is cheesy, cliched, and doesn't keep the tone of the characters but honestly it isn't completely devoid of entertainment, even when it seemed completely devoid of love, smarts, or effort. Honestly though, the cast isn't horrible. Just the script and the director. Hopefully we don't see another attempt like this, but who know.
Rated 04 Aug 2016
44
5th
The 2015 reboot of Fantastic Four was presumably supposed to rejuvenate the franchise. It seems instead to have used the 2005 film as the baseline for finding new ways to be bad. While some aspects are certainly better--Miles Teller as Reed Richards the most striking--this new attempt is good where the first film was bad, and bad where the first film was good. It's not a winning approach.
Rated 09 Aug 2015
20
0th
Absolutely awful, even relative to my standards for other comic book movies, and that's saying something.
Rated 04 Dec 2022
28
11th
Strange trainwreck of a movie, that had all the elements to be at least mediocre.
Rated 04 Apr 2016
5
1st
I thought this movie had a good cast and potential to be a decent movie. The only problem was that they spent about 90 minutes of the movie giving poorly developed background and less than 10 minutes working on a story.
Rated 10 Aug 2022
56
23rd
The Human Torch is the best part
Rated 10 Feb 2022
16
6th
Every single Fantastic Four movie has been made by people embarrassed that they're making a Fantastic Four movie, and this one is the worst. It thinks it's clever and deep and emotionally mature and it's wrong. The early parts are cliche high school drama with fake-Whedon dialog, the third act's plot structure melted, and in the middle there's a "super-origin as body horror" part that *could* have been interesting, but has no emotional scaffolding, leaving it feeling like cheap nasty shock. Bad.
Rated 11 Jan 2016
68
26th
A lot of people could say this was a fantastic bore, but I liked a lot of parts of it... I just wish it had a tiny bit more action. I heard from someone before watching this that the movie is more like Interstellar than it is Iron Man. That's a good way to frame this movie. IT was more about the idea of the Fantastic Four, than just them running around beating up bad guys...
Rated 26 Mar 2016
46
29th
Certainly not a masterpiece. Although the movie doesn't feel slow, there isn't much that is happening in it. Or so it seems. I also feel there is no room for adequate character development, and so you have very little connection to them. That being said it passes time just fine. 46/100.
Rated 31 Mar 2019
62
57th
You know I don't care what anyone else says I kind of liked it. The characters aren't quite right and it takes awhile to get going but its fun and I liked how dark it was. The biggest failing was the climax, once they go to the other world for the showdown the film completely falls on its face. The epilogue piece was also cringe worthy.
Rated 16 Sep 2017
64
61st
Quite under rated, I think sheep-le start following what others say without actually giving a movie a watch with an open mind. This film is just fine with a fresh story, pretty good effects and good action scenes. The biggest problem is half of the cast are bad choices by the production team. Worth a watch for sure.
Rated 15 Jun 2017
55
33rd
The F4 just don't lend themselves to movies, I guess. I often complain about superhero reboots giving too much focus to the origin story, but I appreciate what Josh Trank attempted here, with making he entire movie an origin story and only having one confrontation at the end of the movie and not have the team learn to control their powers or cooperate until they absolutely have to. It's really dark and grim and I see why fans of the comic would loathe it. Still doesn't deserve the hate it gets.
Rated 26 Apr 2016
6
5th
W2E0P1S0V1M1A1R0. The reviews weren't wrong. The first hour of exposition felt like any other super hero movie. Maybe a little slower than most, but the same slow build and likable characters. But then it was just a mindless rush to the finish with no clear arc or developed conflict.
Rated 29 Oct 2015
48
17th
Some of the realistic approach works, and I didn't think the acting was bad, but the actors have zero chemistry, and well, nothing much happens.
Rated 05 Jul 2016
22
11th
D
Rated 11 Jul 2020
14
1st
The Fantastic Four is a superhero movie in which you don't get to see the heroes use their powers much (or succeed with them when they do). It is also a film that doesn't bother to establish a villain or have any conflict for most of the movie. This is essentially a grim "recording" of "something" with extremely poor direction and an awful screenplay. I'm not really sure what it was about and neither did the characters in the movie.
Rated 29 Feb 2016
80
77th
i loved the parts that were a dope horror take on how the fantastic four got their powers and shit. easily coulda been a great movie and great set up if the studio didn't fuck with the director. and i liked that it was all set up
Rated 15 Feb 2016
60
14th
It had potential, but none of it realized. Pretty boring, not much reason to care about the characters.
Rated 31 Oct 2021
13
1st
Geez, where to begin... The Jessica Alba F4 was a better film by a large, large margin. This stars Michael B. Jordan in a role that he doesn't belong in, Kate Mara in a role she doesn't belong in, and flounders the talent that is Miles Teller to the point that it makes me hate what is essentially a great actor. Beside some glaring issues with the casting, the plot makes no sense, with huge pacing problems and massive narrative leaps. It feels like segments of a longer, yet still shitty, film
Rated 25 Aug 2021
20
0th
An absolute trainwreck. I hated everything about this. Sure the young cast is very talented and likeable, but most are miscast (Jamie Bell as the Thing really?!) and besides besides both those that are and aren't, can't make their horrible written characters work.
Rated 08 Aug 2015
15
2nd
A tedious superhero movie that feels sloppy in every aspect - whether it be the uneven performances, awkward dialogue, or dated visual effects. Works its way through two acts of exposition and muddy visual effects before abruptly ending on a joke. The only things that work are moments of body horror and a decent score from co-composers Philip Glass and Marco Beltrami.
Rated 17 Jan 2016
20
6th
This was better than I thought it was going to be. Saying that though, my expectations was not high at all.
Rated 09 Aug 2022
35
7th
Generic plot, dull script, bland characters, yet for a half hour or so I almost let myself think it could be an okay film. It's not even bad in a hate-watch way.
Rated 22 Jan 2016
35
10th
After all the terrible things I heard about it I expected it to be worse. Not that there is a lot of good here. Every character is a cliche, the climatic fight scene is boring and poorly choreographed, and every time it seemed like they were trying to do something interesting with the characters they would drop it or wrap it up easily a few scenes later. There were a few decent visuals I guess (I like how Thing looked), but nothing that makes this movie worth seeing really.
Rated 13 Sep 2015
50
50th
Fantastic Four has all the nuts and bolts and moving parts of a fun modern superhero movie--from attractive stars to CGI bombast. But it's a super-suited tin man in need of a heart. It's hard to care about these "kids." It's hard to cheer them on. It's hard to hear them swear. It's hard to learn any sort of lesson about bravery or self-sacrifice. (pluggedin.com)
Rated 12 Sep 2015
49
11th
Well, this is definitely a flop. But I think Fox is to blame here. It is so obvious that Fox didn't trust and invest the project from the very beginning. With this cheap budget and crappy visual effects, there was no way this would be good. Sure Josh Trank and other writers should share the burden. They spent so much time with the origin, there was no room for the main villain. 90 min running time made me feel like studio butchered Josh Trank's version. I actually want to see director's cut.
Rated 01 Jun 2020
17
1st
Fant4stic doesn't resemble a film in any sense of the word. It doesn't even touch upon the concept. How do you waste this kind of a cast? Whatever!
Rated 02 Jan 2016
40
2nd
It's absolutely awful but I think it'll make a good film to dunk/riff on in the future.
Rated 13 Nov 2017
15
1st
Trank + Studio, they said U couldn't possibly make this franchise anymore of a screwup than it already was. Wow, did you prove them wrong! ;-) Ok we've had bubblegum FF x 2 & now wannabe Nolan FF - can we now just ditch the FF for good? Or else tell me who & how are ever going to make this damn thing work? Resurrect David Lean & Shakespeare, Brando, Cary Grant, Errol Flynn & I still smell a cine turd. Hope I'm wrong. Fear more chance 4 an Oscar worthy Alpha Flight film at this point!
Rated 09 Apr 2016
50
21st
There was potential here, but sometimes I just wonder if the Fantastic Four isn't something that lends itself to live action very well. The screenplay being shit didn't help matters, but it was very uneven. Not everything has to be dark (I mean, seriously, they're a team of people called the Fantastic fucking Four)
Rated 22 Apr 2019
10
0th
buleeeehhhhhh!!!
Rated 24 Nov 2015
1
1st
This is a direct insult to the superhero movie genre. It's a direct insult to the Marvel brand. It's a direct insult to the Fantastic Four.
Rated 18 Feb 2016
45
3rd
The build-up is kind of almost decent, and then it goes way downhill from there when they try to cram in a villain and an endfight in pretty much no time at all. There is very little to get me engaged here, and I'm usually all about the superhero movies.
Rated 18 Mar 2016
35
53rd
It's a real shame that the film took such a nosedive near the end just for the sake of an excuse to have them save the world when it never seemed like the film wanted that sort of scope. Also, why would an "anti-government anarchist" want to kill everybody on earth and not just take down the worlds governments? Oh yeah, so we can have the big cgi fight with the fate of the Earth at stake! Big stakes = big excitement apparently.
Rated 11 Sep 2015
5
5th
The events of this film are precipitated by the actions of fame hungry "geniuses" that can't handle their liquor. Amazing.

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