This movie is really dumb. Its not as bad as the 2015 version, but that's not saying much. This movie is poorly made nonsense that is not worth watching. My head hurt trying to figure out what was going on when I watched it.

Another unjustly bashed movie. Of course it is not masterpiece of cinematography, but it doesn't try to be. Solid adaptation of comic-book in manner typical for Marvel - expensive, huge, light and very entertaining. Plus, it has Jessica Alba in tight costume. She even gets completely naked several times, but unfortunately she plays role of Invisible Girl, so not much use of it.7,5/10

While superhero flicks have never been my favourite type of movies, I've always been willing to give them a go, and I've enjoyed most I've watched in recent years. Sadly, FANTASTIC FOUR is not one of those movies; it's one of the most appalling superhero films I've watched, worse than the camp classics of the 1960s and the cheesiness spawned during the 1980s. The movie fails because it has no heart; it goes through the motions without ever offering anything anywhere near profound, exciting, or indeed interesting. Despite a workable premise, the film seems to steal bits from SPIDER-MAN, THE FLY, and many other classic movies, throwing them together into a jumbled mess that just gets worse as it goes on.You can't blame the cast. Well, you can, but at least there are a couple of good performers in there; namely Ioan Gruffudd and Michael Chiklis. Chiklis, the bald, hulking anti-hero of TV series THE SHIELD lends solid value as The Thing, a man made out of rock, but too often he's made the butt of jokes, and he never becomes more than a walking man-mountain. Ioan Gruffudd looks as smooth and dashing as he did in KING ARTHUR, but he's similarly wasted, left standing around and looking wooden throughout. At least he's better than newcomer Chris Evans, who'll make you want to smash his teeth in about ten seconds after you first saw him. Jessica Alba, who managed to do sexy in SIN CITY, is equally bad here, reaching new lows of blandness. The bad guy, a villain named Doctor Doom, should be scary or Willem Dafoe style OTT, but instead it's the slick, slimy and miscast Julian McMahon who just kind of slides through the film without making an effort.The special effects in the film are surprisingly bad. Alba, as the Invisible Woman, has an okay look, but you can't really do much with invisibility that hasn't been done before. The Human Torch is better; the effects of him flying through the air and burning are decent, with a flashy, expensive look to them. Sadly, it's Gruffudd's Mr. Stretchy that lets the side down; his elongated body looks like nothing more than the CGI effect which it is. THE X-FILES underplayed it when Doug Hutchinson was cannibalistic serial killer Eugene Victor Tooms; any episode of that show is miles better than this trash.Superhero films are usually noted for their large scale action set-pieces, and there's a halfway decent show-stopper here, as a fire engine threatens to crash off a massive bridge. Unfortunately that's the only good bit you're going to see. The ending is particularly weak, so much so that you'll have forgotten it a day after watching; I seem to remember somebody asking what happens to metal when it rapidly cools, but to be honest I was struggling to stay awake at that point. FANTASTIC FOUR is without a doubt the nadir of superhero films, and let us pray that they don't make another.

Next to the massive popular The Avengers, The Fantastic Four has the most potential as a Marvel film adaptation. You have an interesting duo as lead characters that can bring so much depth in different ways. They are superheroes that don't hide their identify and live as normal beings. Let's not also forgot the Roger Corman produced a very low budget Fantastic Four film that never got a released in 1994. When first mainstream Fantastic Four was released in 2005 from director Tim Story, we were long overdue for it and when there were two excellent Spider-Man films from Sami Raimi before that, Fantastic Four was suppose to be really something. Well it works perfectly as a popcorn film but you really want something better as a superhero film when you consider that it is the Fantastic Four and the source material it comes from.After an attack with radiation on a space mission, four astronauts and Victor Von Doom (Julian McMahorn) all get some type of superhero powers. The four astronauts who later together create a team later called Fantastic Four. The team who's villain later is Victor Von Doom himself and who wants revenge.Due to the plot, this is a film that has places a high value on casting as the team of characters that has to work together through most scenes. The very attractive Jessica Alba plays invisible woman Sue Storm; an actress who's acting has never been that sharp and this is really some questionable casting. Chris Evans plays Johnny Storm/Human Torch; a character who can create fire which kind of brings you back to the Stephen King adaption Firestarter and character that is so hard to like due to his hotshot attitude. Villain Victor Von Doom is only in character in the last act and actor Julian McMahorn makes the character very cheesy and not at all menacing. Besides the fact that he looks very cheap, the only superhero you can fully like is The Thing/Ben Grimm (Michael Chiklis) who you feel a lot of sympathy for due to having issues with his appearance and it is tough to watch his divorce with his wife Debbie (Lauire Holden). The divorce part of the plot could have been covered much more and it really is a question mark as to why it only had two scenes to it.We can also say this film falls due to a bad script. The plot has no ideas in the middle and for people wanting action, well don't expect a lot of that. Even when you get action, it's lot of running around without any type direction, especially a particular bridge scene. The writing by Mark Frost and Michael France is either a lot of garbled talk that does makes for a confusing first act or that it is writing with a lot one-liners that takes a direction like it was made to be comedy. The special effects are rushed and are so very far off from what we see in superhero films of today. The Fantastic Four has some ideas no doubt but in the end it is a mess that get lost with many flaws.The Fantastic Four is a very hard film to sit through. This movie is very different from the superhero films of today which makes it both odd and refreshing. A below average and very goofy affair.