I waited to see this movie in theaters to have the experience by myself without others' reactions imposed on me. I didn't read too much about the film other than it was bad. I didn't delve into the reasons why it was bad because I wanted to give the movie a clean shot.
It was terrible. The film seemed like a long TV pilot episode that should never for any reason see the light of air time or ever be considered to develop. The dark story that the film was going for didn't work out. The movie was only an hour and forty minutes. There was no time to focus and develop characters and story. It seemed as if the movie had scenes that were haphazardly cut together without any sort of flow or structure.
The director Josh Tank (Chronicle) made this look like a comic geek's student film with a big budget. Tank came out and said that the studio forced harsh restrictions on him, but even if this movie was an hour longer I don't think it would help. Not only is the story terrible the dialogue is cringe-worthy. The actors in this film seemed hollow and shallow. Since the dialogue is so bad I don't think they were given anything to work with.
Now the one thing I read that gave the movie some credit was it's special effects. There was one scene, the new dimension, that had decent effects and you see it in the trailer. The rest looked like today's CGI techniques were used on a Windows 95.
While Fantastic Four had potential to be another great superhero flick it failed disastrously. What the film ultimately lacked was direction and plot. The story felt forced and chopped together; and, the actors seemed unable to bring energy to their characters with the dialogue. The CGI wasn't good and there's not much left to have any positives. Some of it was entertaining but it was far from fantastic.
It was terrible. The film seemed like a long TV pilot episode that should never for any reason see the light of air time or ever be considered to develop. The dark story that the film was going for didn't work out. The movie was only an hour and forty minutes. There was no time to focus and develop characters and story. It seemed as if the movie had scenes that were haphazardly cut together without any sort of flow or structure.
The director Josh Tank (Chronicle) made this look like a comic geek's student film with a big budget. Tank came out and said that the studio forced harsh restrictions on him, but even if this movie was an hour longer I don't think it would help. Not only is the story terrible the dialogue is cringe-worthy. The actors in this film seemed hollow and shallow. Since the dialogue is so bad I don't think they were given anything to work with.
Now the one thing I read that gave the movie some credit was it's special effects. There was one scene, the new dimension, that had decent effects and you see it in the trailer. The rest looked like today's CGI techniques were used on a Windows 95.
While Fantastic Four had potential to be another great superhero flick it failed disastrously. What the film ultimately lacked was direction and plot. The story felt forced and chopped together; and, the actors seemed unable to bring energy to their characters with the dialogue. The CGI wasn't good and there's not much left to have any positives. Some of it was entertaining but it was far from fantastic.