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Fantastic 4 dragged by critics | 9% on RT
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Clark Collis (Entertaiment Weekly)
“That’s a pretty terrific group of actors — but they are given precious little to do in this clunky origin story. Teller showed more emotion sweating over his drum kit in Whiplash than do the combined cast in the film’s first half, and matters actually get worse once Doom begins to wreak havoc. And, in fairness, the film is not bad bad, although it might have been more fun if it were. ”
Rene Rodriguez (Miami Herald)
“Fantastic Four is so bereft of all the things we expect from a superhero movie — humor, excitement, adventure, awe — that it plays like a drawn-out pilot episode for an upcoming TV series no one would ever watch again. I’d rather sit through Roger Corman’s no-budget, unintentionally hilarious 1994 adaptation, because at least that one makes you laugh. … In the few instances Trank tries to have fun, the effort comes off forced (the Thing’s trademark “It’s clobberin’ time!” has never sounded so desperate).”
Wesley Morris (Grantland)
"To mock this movie is to obey a ‘Kick Me’ sign. And yet to sit through Fantastic Four is to realize that even a mediocre movie is a kind of miracle. There’s a bar for the superhero adventures, and this one falls so far short of it that close study is warranted, hopefully by scientists played with more conviction than Teller and Mara. I’ve never seen good young actors this stuck.”
A.A. Dowd (The A.V. Club)
“Fantastic Four never really goes anywhere, almost literally speaking: Like a cost-cutting sitcom, it keeps its heroes cooped up indoors, even after they’ve come back from their ill-fated trip to the other side, where some neon green sludge supplies them with their respective gifts/curses. … Fun, in general, is what’s missing from [Trank’s] first big studio gig.”
Tom Russo (Boston Globe)
“Jordan’s much publicized color-blind casting as Johnny is progressive, sure, but the story does nothing to make it feel inspired, or even relevant. The Thing gets a digital makeover after the snickering at Michael Chiklis’s rubble suit from a decade ago, but Bell’s performance doesn’t show through. Ultimately, what Fantastic Four delivers is change for change’s sake, rather than change for the better. Oh, well – they can always reboot. ”
A.O. Scott (New York Times)
“The only real pathos belongs to Mr. Bell’s Ben, who finds himself trapped in a stony new body and weaponized by a ruthless government. Mr. Teller stretches, not as an actor but as a digitally enhanced body. Mr. Jordan burns in the same way, and Ms. Mara disappears. Her character also has the power to make other things vanish. I would say she should have exercised it on this movie, but in a week or two that should take care of itself.”
Michael O’Sullivan (Washington Post)
“What’s most galling, especially for an action film, is that there’s precious little action here. The special effects look cheap, the acting is wooden, and the shouted dialogue consists largely of throwaway action-movie cliches (‘Let’s do this’) and B-movie sci-fi jargon (‘His bioenergy is off the charts!’).”
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