Fantastic Bore

(This post will contain spoilers for the recently released Fantastic Four film)

On Friday (7th August) me and my better half went to see what we thought would be a better remake of what was a flop of a film. Fantastic Four had been one of our favourite childhood cartoons and with the 2005 being so poorly received, we didn't think we'd be loosing out on much by going to view the reboot. How wrong we were.

The film starts off strong, showing how Reed Richards starts out in school, being the nerd in the class, however it deteriorates very quickly from there. Within the first 20 or so minutes, he becomes best friends with Ben Grimm, by simply trying to steal from his familys scrapyard and asking him if he would like to see his experiment. From this point onwards, it was all downhill for the film.

Until about an hour in to the film, we are yet to witness any of the characters powers. The main portion of this film has consisted of Reed becoming noticed for his work and building the machine to a larger proportion than his experiment. The story drags this out for much longer than it needed to, with no real progression being made as the character development is incredibly poor. Once they eventually get around to gaining their powers (through a section with lasts all of 10 minutes) it quickly jumps forward in time to when they are all in total control. This again all goes back to the film having little to no character development. At this point me and Matt both start looking at each other, giving glances of 'why the hell did we pay to watch this shit'. 

It quickly became apparent that this was coming close to the end of the film when a new group went back through a rebuilt machine and found Doom. This again had no story or explanation within the film as to why he had come to hate everyone and want to destroy the planet, but I guess the Script Writer wanted us to use our imagination a fair bit in this film. The Fantastic Four's battle with Doom was short, but not sweet as it was all about terrible dialogue with little action. 

All this being said, I am in no way saying the actors in the film were bad. They worked with what they were given and should they have been given better Scripts and Direction, then I firmly believe the film could have worked. They all played their roles well and fitted in to the nature of their characters. 

All in all I believe the current rating on IMDB of 4 (at the time of writing this article) is still being generous to the film. It is a massive disappointment to not recommend a film from one of my favourite companies (Marvel) but I really would not advise anyone to spend any money on watching this film. I think its time Marvel Studios absorbed it in to their running universe and if need be, reboot it again. 

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