Fantastic Four Film Review

Finished watching Fantastic Four directed by Josh Trank and staring Owen Judge, Evan Hannemann, Miles Teller, Jamie Bell, Reg E Cathey, Kate Mara, Toby Kebbell and Michael B Jordan. The film opens up with a young Reed Richards (Owen Judge) being the laughing stock of his classmates with is dream of building a functional teleporter. While creating his prototype with parts from the local junkyard Reed meets a young Ben Grimm (Evan Hannemann) with the two quickly becoming friends. Years later at their schools science fair Reed (Miles Teller) and Ben (Jamie Bell) show of their miniature teleporter. This gains the attention of Franklin Storm (Reg E Cathey) along with his daughter Sue (Kate Mara) who give Reed a scholarship to work at the Baxter Building and recreate the telporter as they have had no success in building a fully functual teleporter. Once at the building Reed begins building the teleporter with Victor Von Doom (Toby Kebbell) and Johnny Storm (Michael B Jordan). Once the teleporter is fully functional Victor, Johnny and Reed in a drunken idea decide to explore the other dimension along with Ben Grimm who is invited by Reed. When the teams exploration goes bad they lose Victor in the dimension as Sue brings them back causing all of them to gain their superpowers. Overall this was a terrible film as all of the set up at the beginning of the film lands incredibly flat at the end. Some parts of the film happen conveniently as the story needs it to so the film can further on. After the characters gain their powers the film seems to rush to its anticlimactic ending with the only real fight scene of the film lasting a few minutes which consists of no real sense of danger and any team dynamic as Reed Richards could have beaten Dr Doom himself as he conveniently learnt how to properly use all of his powers in a matter of seconds when he was able to knock Doom out while the other members of the team were incarcerated by Doom. The only decent part on this film are the scenes set at the Baxter Building as its where the most character development is and even then it is very little as it happens during a montage of the characters working together. 3.5/10.