An average movie

Like anyone else, I heard that this movie was pretty terrible but I was still eager to check it out to make up my own mind. Well, at the end of the day, I have to say that it does deserve its bad reputation. Was it really bad from the start or was it actually ruined by the studio? I guess we'll never know, apparently, Josh Trank's version was about 50 minutes longer but I have my doubts that something longer would have worked better. Anyway, there is no doubt that this cut didn't work at all. Indeed, even though it was just about 90 minutes long, it took them maybe 1 hour to introduce the characters, to get them to build their machine and finally to have them get their superpowers. Than, in the final act, it was just a big rush to have them face one of the most underdeveloped villains you'll ever see in a super-hero feature. In the mean time, you can start counting the number of plot-holes coming by (why is Reed a shy nerd before the transformation and a confident  hero afterwards? How can they breath in the other dimension without a space suite? Why do they think that going back to this other dimension might solve anything?). The most pathetic thing was probably the now infamous wig used by Kate Mara during the re-shoots. I mean, come on, even the color of this wig wasn't right. Above all, the whole thing was simply so damned boring. Anyway, to conclude, I think my rating might be rather generous here as they even managed to deliver something even more underwhelming than the previous Fantastic Four movies which was a result nobody really expected.


5/10