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U/A (INDIA)
2015
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Positive Reviews
39
Negative reviews
168
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2.0
This summers Age Of Ultron took some deserved heat for being overlong, overstuffed, and over reliant on CGI spectacle.
Av Club
2.0
Mostly, Fantastic Four is just hard work, a reflection, one assumes, of its famously difficult production.
EW
1.9
Maybe Fantastic Four is a cursed property, or maybe just one that shouldnt be turned into a film
Rogerebert
2.0
It drags and lacks the charming banter and visual thrills that the Marvel verse is known to provide.
Common Sense Media
3.0
All told, the movie feels like a protracted teaser for a more exciting follow up that, depending on whether audiences warm to this relatively low key ..
Variety
2.0
After unexpectedly, effectively turning into a full blown horror movie for two minutes, Fantastic Four rather abruptly gets pulled into its rushed, ge ..
We Got This Covered
2.0
Following a spot of genuinely unnerving body horror courtesy of Tellers infinitely extendable arms, the second half is nothing more than a sub Avenger ..
Time Out
1.0
But this unnecessary reboot is a solemn affair, visually murky and misjudged.
The Guardian
2.0
The result is a dawdling indie drama, gussied up in superhero garb.
The Guardian
1.3
So appallingly dull that even a third act parade of exploding heads cant rouse interest, Fantastic Four may be the most minor Marvel Comics film yet.
1.3
Whats most galling, especially for an action film, is that theres precious little action here.
1.5
Theres a fundamental tonal dissonance at the heart of Fantastic Four. The awkward staging, cut rate effects, and stilted dialogue might have worked al ..
Vulture
1.0
At this point in the ever expanding cinematic superhero game, it behooves any filmmakers who gets involved to have at least a mildly fresh take on the ..
The Hollywood Reporter
0.5
Not only that, its palpably boring, stretching itself unfantastically when it could have been easily trimmed by a solid 30 minutes.
2.5
Fantastic Four, despite the dogged efforts of its talented young cast, has nothing.
The New York Times
1.9
I dont know what else to say.Fantastic Four isnt good on any level.
Paste Magazine
2.5
The final fight lacks any thrills or wow factor of seeing the Fantastic Four come together and battle their greatest enemy.
IGN
2.0
The film is almost all build up, though any mounting sense of excitement is dispelled by the monotonously downbeat tone and the casts conspicuous lack ..
Telegraph
2.0
One thing leads to another, however, and a trip to this other dimension becomes something the team just has to try for itself.
2.5
The new film develops characters and relationships, treating its audience as grown ups, but feels a bit too casually paced.
San Francisco Chronicle
1.0
Whomever is to blame left us with an overly serious and dour film thats composed of eighty percent banal origin story and twenty percent abysmal clima ..
The Young Folks
2.0
Apostasy What a startling and bold debut feature this is, a thoughtful exploration of .. The Equalizer 2 Believe it or not, Denzel Washington has neve ..
2.5
But that doesnt nullify the issues I had with this introductory chapter in the new legacy of the Fantastic Four.
Cinema Blend
1.0
The whole movie feels like a tale being made up on the spot by a hypercaffeinated 6 year old.
Ny Daily News
1.5
Its really puzzling how badly awry this reboot has gone as the finished product is neither bad enough to be ironically entertaining, nor is it halfway ..
JoBlo
2.0
Worst of all, Fantastic Four fails at the most basic goal of any superhero adaptation: thrilling entertainment.
Screen Rant
2.5
For an action film, Fantastic Four is surprisingly limp, a characteristic one can only blame on Trank, its relatively inexperienced director.
The Globe And Mail
2.5
Not until almost an hour into this uninspired reboot (two slightly more inspired Fantastic Fours came out in 2005 and 2007) does the quartet get their ..
Philly
2.5
Superhero film fans can only hope that the next one will be interesting to watch.
2.0
It is definitely time for Marvel to retire this dreadful comic book adventure.
Spirituality And Practice
2.0
The result is a tedious bargain basement Marvel movie thats sure to disappoint an audience accustomed to the blockbuster sized action of Iron Man, Tho ..
One Guys Opinion
2.0
All of the films ingenuity seems to have been invested in these scenes, the only ones here that havent appeared in some other recent superhero film.Ki ..
Village Voice
1.3
Four distinguishes itself from its far superior pulpy fiction brothers and sisters in its utter lack of gravitas and wit.
Rogers Movie Nation
3.1
It makes Fantastic Four seem more serious and adult than one might guess from the generic narrative.
ReelViews
3.0
A decade ago, there was a Fantastic Four, which delivered an origin story and a visual effects bonanza, but very little entertainment, with the featur ..
Blu Ray
3.0
His film turns into yet another special effects showcase once the quartet gain superpowers, but at least the effects look good.
Chicago Reader
1.3
If this sounds like just the beginning of an actual story, you may be shocked to learn that it is essentially the end of this movies story.
Mark Reviews Movies
2.0
The talented young cast is wasted with corny dialog and a ho hum story that follows an anticipated path.
2.0
The talented young cast is wasted with corny dialog and a ho hum story that follows an anticipated path.
1.3
If you want a good Fantastic Four flick, watch Pixars The Incredibles.
Usa Today
3.1
The Films of Josh Trank Chronicle (February 3/12) A superior found footage thriller, Chronicle follows three high schoolers (Dane DeHaans Andrew, Alex ..
Reel Film Reviews
1.5
It just knocks that point into your head. Its bad. Is it a train wreck Absolutely. But its not the worst movie ever.
You Tube
1.5
Its a good set up...the problem is, the set up continues for the next hour and a half of the movie, when the action should have started.
You Tube
3.0
Those films were unbearably camp, inviting us to believe that Horatio Hornblower, aka Ioan Gruffudd, could actually be a superhero.
The Times
1.0
We are sorry, you need to be a subscriber to watch this video We are sorry, you need to be a subscriber to watch this video Fantastic Four, this weeks ..
The Times
3.0
Marvel Entertainment takes another stab at screening its first big comic book success; the last one got off to a bad start in 2005 and flamed out (pun ..
News Review
0.5
In this day and age, things like this shouldnt be allowed to happen.
News Review
2.0
Overall, the flick is a mess that starts off promisingly enough, but keeps getting worse as it progresses and collapses in whats arguably the worst th ..
Screen It
2.0
It is enjoyable enough in patches, sometimes ingenious, and boasts some impressive special effects.
Independent
0.0
The latest reboot of the Fantastic Four the cinematic equivalent of malware is worse than worthless.It not only scrapes the bottom of the Marvel movie ..
Rolling Stone
2.0
A jumble of predictable but also incoherent plot turns, dreadful dialogue, and unfortunate visual choices.
Pop Matters
2.0
Its one thing for a movie to leave you wanting a sequel and quite another to make you wish you were watching that sequel instead.
The Wrap
2.0
The special effects are cheesy, the acting perfunctory, the plotting pallid.If this film spawns a sequel, anything goes.
Cs Monitor
2.5
A selfie themed moment with Teller is one of the rare times Fantastic Four stops taking itself so seriously.Unfortunately, any glimmers of quality fin ..
Film Journal
0.0
Utterly missing are any characters or situations audiences can remotely care about.
New York Post
1.0
Whatever action you see is in the last 10 minutes of the film. By then, you neither care nor want it.
Hindustan Times
1.0
Audiences would be wise to remember there are plenty of other quality options at the theaters this summer.This one just isnt worth your time.
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
2.5
If anything, with its serious tone and small scale visual effects, it is closer to the 70s made for TV incarnation of The Incredible Hulk than any of ..
Az Central
3.5
First things first: this capable reboot of the Fantastic Four thankfully bears little resemblance to the previous attempt to build a film franchise ar ..
Smh
3.0
It might even be that some of the original vitality of the form came from its very lack of respectability its ability to embarrass the grown ups.
Smh
2.0
Even a cast of our very finest 28 to 32 year olds who can sort of pass as adolescents ... cant save this dreary, overfamiliar origin story.
Npr
2.5
The third big budget attempt to tell the origin story of the Fantastic Four superhero saga on film hasnt turned out to be the charm.
Star Tribune
0.5
These guys are all just unlikable jerks with no discernible personalities.
1.9
Be careful what you wish for.There are many things wrong with Fantastic Four , a failed reboot by Josh Trank, but the fatal flaw is that it squanders ..
Toronto Star
1.0
Turning Marvels celebrated comic book series into an entertaining, action packed summer blockbuster should be a piece of cake, but this is the fourth ..
Daily Mail
2.0
Somewhere deep down beneath this tonally confused, incomplete nonsense theres a great movie.
Cinema Crazed
2.0
Fantastic Four James Mottram 6 August 2015 Drab and humourless superhero reboot from Chronicle director Josh Trank Made in 2005 and 2007 respectively, ..
Flim List
2.5
The buildup to the films climactic finale is sometimes the best part of a superhero film.
Film Inquiry
2.5
Review by Louise Keller: Spectacular visual effects and an engaging cast make this Marvel Superhero fantasy into a moderately enjoyable adventure for ..
1.0
Another failure, proving that the Marvel name no longer guarantees blockbuster box office...
Susang Ranger
4.5
Weve gotten so accustomed to a certain degree of sameness in our comic book movies that much of Fantastic Four felt remarkably refreshing.Here was a s ..
Movies
2.0
Instead, Fantastic Four is just a bland film with almost no cohesion.
Flickering Myth
2.0
Fantastic Four is a bombastic bore with dialogue so bad it makes the merely tiresome Avengers: Age of Ultron sound like Richard III.
Boston Herald
2.0
The film careens towards a climax that feels quick and out of place, once again reminding us of the world threatening stakes required of these large t ..
The Film Stage
1.3
But you cant blame the messenger, or the messengers cohorts.Lame is lame.
Chicago Tribune
2.5
Jordans much publicized color blind casting as Johnny is progressive, sure, but the story does nothing to make it feel inspired, or even relevant.
Boston Globe
2.0
Its not a train wreck, because train wrecks hold a macabre fascination.
Uproxx
1.5
Doctor Doom doesnt have much of a plan other than destroy Earth, but he never gives a reason why hes doing this other than Im mad.
Uproxx
1.0
The bar has been raised far too high on comic book movies for anyone to accept junk like this these days.Its pretty insulting to fans and to the origi ..
Flickfilosopher
2.0
These sections are very much in the style of Tranks hugely enjoyable low budget debut Chronicle.
The Irish Times
3.0
Whether in the grim and grounded Batman films of Christopher Nolan or the more popcorn entertainment oriented sphere of Marvels cinematic universe, he ..
Blogs Indie Wire
2.5
Its also probably worth noting here that the movie has no theory whatsoever of what an alternate dimension might signify.
The Atlantic
0.8
This is an unmitigated disaster on every level.Rather than a different, but engaging twist on the cornerstones of the Marvel Universe, its a shoddy, s ..
Lyles Movie Files
3.5
What the movie gets wrong is infuriating and disappointing, but what it gets right completely captures what I want a movie like this to be.
Birth Movies Death
3.0
For something like this to work, the fantastic elements need to magnify the human themes.
Standard
2.5
The acting is good and the story is interesting enough to hold your interest.
Tony Medley
2.0
The films dynamic is completely off, offering too much build and too little payoff.
Detroit News
2.5
The Bottom Line: While not nearly the disaster people seem to be expecting or hoping for, Fantastic Four should and could have been better because the ..
1.9
Fantastic Four is Catwoman level awful.It wastes a great cast and cool source material.
Aisle Seat
3.5
But judged as a quirky sci fi horror B movie that didnt aspire to being a summer popcorn movie in the first place, its entertaining most of the time, ..
Forbes
2.5
I wish the whole film were as terrible as its final 2/3, because there is just enough promise, just enough good acting and interesting dialogue that I ..
Forbes
2.0
While it never quite becomes a bad film, it can never quite make you forget it is a botched film.
Herald Sun
2.0
Its a damn shame the film fails to capitalize on this terror, derailing itself instead with mindless action.
Consequence Of Sound
1.0
Its not wickedly dark or bleak, nor is it tongue in cheek and enchanting.Its a disaster.
Hey U Guys
2.0
What he, and everyone else involved with this unnecessary reboot, seems to have forgotten is that this isnt the Scientifically Plausible Four or the E ..
Oregon Live
2.0
There is so much wrong with the new Fantastic Four that writing about it feels more like an autopsy than a review.
Film School Rejects
2.0
Its rare that you watch a movie and still feel like you havent seen that movie.
Ner Dist
1.0
Whats the worst thing you can say about a superhero movie Its dull. The Fantastic Four is deadly dull.
Maki At The Movies
0.5
Easily less agreeable than the flawed science of the film is the terrible dialogue.
2.0
Instead the film is visually dark and the plot is po faced and notably missing any fun factor.
Mirror
3.1
Or could it be that audiences are finally starting to grow even the slightest bit tired of the superhero genre.Granted the film does have its flaws an ..
Three Movie Buffs
3.0
While far from the unmitigated disaster some had predicted, Fantastic Four feels unlikely to kick start a new franchise, barely sustaining the narrati ..
Digital Spy
1.0
So, is the end result an epic fail.No, but its certainly no major upgrade on Tim Storys barrel scraping 2005 effort or its Silver Surfer sequel.
Games Radar
3.0
It is undoubtably the dullest Marvel superhero movie in the post Iron Man era, both in adventure and creative design.
Tamp A Bay
4.0
Whilst all the character building comes at the cost of a slightly rushed climax, theres a solid basis here for future movies, if audiences can get on ..
Star Burst Magazine
2.5
But this is a superhero movie thats really not up to the job offering not much to remember it by in terms of spectacle action or humour.
Nz Herald
3.0
Until the special effects take over in the final act, this is an unusually gritty, grounded superhero thriller, with characters who are so believable ..
Contact Music
2.5
Be Fore they were adults.Be Fore anything interesting or exciting happened to your quartet of proto superheroes.
Film Racket
0.5
The worst thing of all is the bad taste in the mouth that stays because the movie is nothing more than a mess introduced to desperation to try to give ..
1.0
Its sloppy script needs at least a bakers dozen of rewrites before its remotely palatable.
Ib Times
2.0
I was put in mind of that story while watching the latest incarnation of Marvel Comics FANTASTIC FOUR, an ambitious film that intended to be more than ..
Killer Movie Reviews
2.0
It is a shame.With this era of high calibre movie adaptation of comic book properties, one would hope that a gifted director such as Trank could have ..
Matts Movie Reviews
2.0
This might be the most lame group to hit the big screen since the last edition of Marvels crusading quartet.The new generation of Fantastic Four scien ..
Patriot Ledger
1.5
Laboriously reworks one of the most well known origin stories in superhero comics.
Antagony & Ecstasy
2.0
Superhero movies have tried hard to leave behind some of their Silver Age comic book trappings in the past decade.
Io9 Gizmodo
1.3
By the time the credits roll, it feels like a cheat: Meh, the Movie.
Movie Crypt
1.0
Fantastic Fours big problem is that its not much of a superhero movie.
Straight
1.5
Fantastic Four is a colossal disappointment.It seems unfathomable, but this reboot is actually a worse film than the previous two.
Movie Web
0.0
The story is actually the best part here; all the pieces were in place for a Chronicle style tale of fractured friendship, sibling resentment, adolesc ..
Sandiego Reader
2.5
But its hard to shake the feeling of a better movie being trapped inside a bad movies body.Even though the characters frequently speak in cliches and ..
Cinemix Tape
2.5
The juxtaposition of non stop brooding against a plot driven superhero origin story makes for discordant storytelling.
Straits Times
1.0
Unfortunately, Fantastic Four represents a trend of taking what might have been a good idea at one time and younging and dumbing it down to oblivion.
Dead Line
1.0
It doesnt have time to flesh out some of its more intriguing ideas.
Metro New York
2.0
Fantastic Four sets itself well for a sequel if turned off well before the final act.
One Room With A View
1.0
Its a poorly constructed, ineptly executed, flatfooted piece of Branded Product that plays as though it were written by a piece of software fed every ..
Flavor Wire
1.0
Fantastic Four more like fantastic bore hello The Thing, the Human Torch, Mr. Fantastic and Invisible Girl take on an evil entity in Fantastic Four..T ..
Daily Herald
1.0
Even Man Of Steel , for all its epic, po faced emotion wrangling still tried to make up for its own super seriousness with spectacle.
The Shiz Nit
2.0
Fantastic Four is only one hundred minutes long but it moves like study hall.
Crave Online
1.0
Thats how Jurassic World can be heralded as the best sequel to Spielbergs classic and Transformers: Age Of Extinction can be dismissed as not that bad ..
What Culture
2.0
This is a film thats been shredded to near incoherence in the editing room, with a finale thats over before its barely begun.
The Skinny
2.0
Fantastic Four is a superhero movie without any sense of spectacle.
Polygon
2.0
But a good superhero movie will make audiences forget that and buy into the story.
No La
1.5
Fantastic Four is a profound mess. Its not fun. Its not exciting. Its far from action packed. And its most certainly not fantastic.
Cbr
2.0
Occasionally you can almost imagine what this youthquake y Fantastic Four could have been.
The Daily Beast
2.0
A mess of a movie is one that lacks narrative coherence, that has no organic through line from start to end.
The Ooh Tray
1.9
What is disappointing is that the film is directed by Josh Trank, whose teen superpower debut Chronicle, while no masterpiece, was a better movie than ..
Movie Mezzanine
2.0
The previous Fantastic Four films could hardly have set the bar much lower, yet Trank barely clears it.Certificate 12A.
What So
1.0
Trank made a clever little superhero film called Chronicle three years ago for the metaphorical equivalent of a buck fifty.
reason
3.0
A complete bore that wastes a talented cast and perhaps puts this series to bed for good.
Bowling Green Daily News
3.0
The dialogue occasionally clunks, and (rarely for a superhero film) it feels too short.
Scifi Now
0.5
After spending two thirds of the movie not talking to/hating one another, the F4 are now super best friends the end F*CK YOU.And f*ck me for sitting t ..
Lainey Gossip
2.0
Instead, it may even be worse than we feared for how much better it could have been.Fantastic Four is the Magnificent Ambersons of superhero movies: a ..
Scifi Movie Page
1.9
The CG work that creates that world, full of spiky rocks and glowing green rivulets, is cheesy in the extreme.Thus does the summer of the superhero mo ..
Seattle Times
2.0
Its as if it looked at possible templates for excitement and willfully decided to go for something more disjointed and boring.
Guide Live
1.5
The only fantastic thing about Fantastic Four is how much blandness it manages to pack into 100 minutes.
Film Journal International ..
1.9
Theres a climactic battle, of course, but its rather anemic, generating about as much suspense as found on any given episode of Fraggle Rock.
Clclt
1.5
Now comes co writer/ director Josh Tranks FANT4STIC re boot, adopting an extremely different tone than its predecessors a stark seriousness so dry it ..
Fresh Fiction
2.0
The end result feels spliced together like some weird lab experiment; taking pieces of great ideas and doing absolutely nothing with them.
0.6
Fantastic Four is quite possibly the least action filled action movie in Marvel history.
National Post
1.0
If anything good comes out of the disaster that is Fantastic Four, it will surely be that studios will learn that you cant just recycle, reboot and re ..
The National
3.0
But as franchise openers (or restarters) go, its solid and moves at a rollicking pace with a talented and game cast (Kebbell the highlight).
Sky
3.0
One of the most enjoyable things about superhero movies is watching seemingly ordinary people transform into the extraordinary.
Blacknerd Problems
2.0
Trank seems to have zapped out all the energy and life of what could potentially have been a good reboot of a failed franchise.
The New Paper
3.0
Well have fun, fun, fun til Daddy takes the dimensional traveling pod away!
Movie Mom
1.9
Two distinctly different approaches to filmmaking are employed here and neither of them manages to eke out a victory over the other.
Cinema Sight
2.0
This is a superhero film: you simply cant make something purporting to be this big without spectacle or enjoyment.
Fan The Fire Magazine
1.0
No doubt Im not the only critic calling this the not so Fantastic Four. Awful beyond description.
Tri City Herald
1.5
Entirely apart from its slugabed pacing, Fantastic Four has no personality.
Trespass Mag
1.5
Fantastic Four, yet another live action, big screen reboot of the Marvel comic book, starts with a sloooooooow burn that lasts for more than an hour. ..
Toronto Sun
1.5
Sadly, Ben doesnt get to go to the Institute, but once the teleportation transport works, you know Reed brings his BFF along for the ride).
2.5
The cast is great... The problem here is a poor script and even poorer dialogue.
2.5
Fantastic Four was on its way to becoming a refreshing, different spin on the superhero genre.
Blog Bullz Eye
1.0
With the Marvel Cinematic Universe already established and welcoming more and more superheroes into the fold, DC is about to jump into the deep end wi ..
Cairo 360
2.0
This is not the epic disaster I thought itd be however it commits the ultimate sin of being aggressively mediocre.
Wp Me
1.3
If you thought the Fantastic Four franchise couldnt get any worse, you were wrong.
Johnhanlon Reviews
2.5
There is true talent among the Fantastic Four crew of actors, but the real villain here is dullness.
Tulsa World
2.5
It starts off as an 80s esque whiz kids sci fi adventure, veers into some mild high tech body horror thriller territory during the middle act, and the ..
Dark Horizons
1.0
Fantastic Four is a mess.Its poorly paced plodding through most of the story only to zip through its big finish.
Toledo Blade
1.5
The film is an example of how dark and gritty or realistic take on superheroes just doesnt work or make things better.
Battleship Pretension
1.5
Fantastic Four had a final budget of $122 million. Good luck to 20th Century Fox making that investment back.
Kaplan Vs Kaplan
1.9
What makes Fantastic Four so uncommonly dreadful is its complete lack of storytelling competence.
The Dispatch (Lexington, N ..
1.0
Its rare to criticise a superhero movie for not having enough action but given how underdeveloped, nondescript the characters are and how boring and l ..
Impulse Gamer
3.0
Even this summers Ant Man, despite its sprightly tone, isnt quite as terrific as it might have been had the heros origins been confined to the first a ..
Metro Times
0.5
It takes itself way too seriously and when its time for action it becomes a parody of itself.
4.0
Fantastic Four is a really good film, shorn of glib know all theatrics, faux profundity and the spangly CG thats usually ushered in as dramatic short ..
Little White Lies
1.5
There are scenes in this movie where I wasnt even sure all of the actors on the screen were in the same room.The production values are inconsistent as ..
Abc News Go
1.9
They aimed for light, colorful escapism, but erred on the side of dopiness.The CG effects were chintzy, the acting was stiff, the comedy corny.
MLive.com
1.9
In place of detectable joy is the visual equivalent of putting on a smile while gritting through ones teeth.
The Film File
3.1
This much reviled reboot represents a legitimate attempt to imagine a superhero origin story as a cautionary science fiction/horror yarn of the type ( ..
Commercial Appeal
3.0
The film is such an obvious set up for more that it watches like they forgot to write anything but the beginning.
2.0
If you liked any of the previous Fantastic Four movies or Transformer, you should enjoy this.
Iol Co Za
0.5
Creatively bankrupt from its underdeveloped characters to its humorless dialogue to its uninspired design.
L.A. Biz
3.0
The material is conventional comic book pulp, but the unfussy style of Fantastic Four doesnt leave you feeling like youre drowning in franchise tropes ..
Bbc
3.5
The film is all foreplay without an orgasm. . . . Visual effects supervisor Kevin Mack must have still been slaphappy from his work on Fight Club.
Huffing Ton Post
2.0
Fantastic Four is an absolute mess, but Ill at least concede that its an interesting mess.
Alternative Lens
1.0
Phew.).Such are the collective lowered expectations of humanity that Marvel Studios Guardians Of The Galaxy a middling at best space adventure with a ..
Junkee
1.5
Wait for the sequel, if it ever comes out; its at least bound to be more interesting than this one, though even thats not saying much.
Bangkok Post
1.5
If the studios version has any claims to an essence of the fantastic, its in the fantastic nap its likely to induce.
D Cist
2.5
The film is too shockingly gory for kids, but never sufficiently grown up enough for adults.
Gq Magazine
4.5
The MCU bag is full almost to bursting and looking good let it alone, I say.
0.6
In the attempt to keep the movie moving, creatively impressive CGI is the films hero. The writing and acting appear to be the nemesis here.
Daily Journal
1.0
Title: Fantastic Four Describe This Movie In One Simpsons Quote: You tricked me!
Houston Press
1.0
Absolutely nothing.I have not walked out of a film this disappointed since The Counselor eschewed great actors for mind numbing plot twists.
The Hollywood Outsider
2.0
Overall, Fantastic Four has its moments but it ultimately doesnt bring anything new to the table.
Flick Feast
2.9
He gets plenty of screen time, but it doesnt come with much value.
ComicBook.com
1.0
Its a boozy joy ride to another dimension that looks a lot like an inactive but unhappy volcano.When they explore its oddly glowing surface, Victor vo ..
Ex Press
3.1
A decent enough overhaul to recommend heartily as a pleasant escape from the hazy, hot, humid dog days of August.
Baret News Wire
1.9
The end result is a patchwork monster that, by its third act, is almost painful to watch, even if everyone in Hollywood really should watch it as a ca ..
City Weekly
2.0
Christopher Nolans Batman movies have more humor than Fantastic Four.
Nc Register
2.0
Film shipped by weight, not by volume.Whats truly frustrating about the film is that the seed of a great film is there.
Fanboys of the Universe
1.5
The Fantastic Four is a longtime entity and, for some, a fan favorite in the Marvel universe. It definitely deserves better treatment than the cinemat ..
The Daily Times (Tennessee ..
2.0
For all this, putting Fantastic Fours box office and production woes aside leaves nothing more than a malformed curio.
Four Three Film
1.5
A movie that has a hard time fulfilling its main goal: entertain.
2.5
Worst of all, its a mess that will likely scare many people away from some of the finest superhero comics ever made.
Business Insider
2.5
...a clash of visions and styles, a story that begins with promise only to descend to full on mediocrity and, finally, after an inexplicable change of ..
Cinencuentro
1.5
Not as solid as a rock, on the contrary, it could be invisible compared to other superhero films: its not hot at all and definetly not fantastic
Excelsior
0.0
It feels like a bland, obnoxious Prometheus..I never thought Id long for the shiny, painful nonsense of Jupiter Ascending, but at least that disaster ..
Trib
1.5
It never reaches the glorious heights we have come to anticipate from Marvels diverse universes.
Times of Malta
1.3
It takes itself too seriously, its colorless visually and emotionally, and it dupes us by promising something Fantastic and instead delivering a lifel ..
1.0
Trust me, the only disappointing thing about that is that it didnt end sooner.
Newshub (NZ)
3.0
Are You Serious.Oh, Definitely Fantastic Four is so serious about itself, and its characters and the dangers of science, that it actually has long mon ..
Topless Robot
2.0
Comic books have come into their own as a collectible commodity, as rare and vintage comic books are going for astronomical amounts to collectors all ..
Movies About
1.5
The conventional story takes way too long to kick into gear, and thanks to characters (and performances) that are bland and boring, getting to that po ..
Access Hollywood
1.0
Fantastic Four wont leave you hungry for sequel; it will leave you desperate to forget what you just watched. Signs of greatness are there, but ultima ..
ComicBookMovie.com
3.0
Superhero films have proven time and time again that even the smallest in popularity of comic books can make for a fun film (Ant Man).
Chris Stuck Mann
1.0
This reboot is anything but fantastic. Dont waste your money on this.
Chilango.com
1.5
Its an extremely rough film where there are a lot of edges that needed to be smoothed over.
Movies With Mae
1.5
But sadly, this costly reboot from Chronicle director Josh Trank is an uncommonly dull summer blockbuster sunk by painfully misjudged pacing.
NME
1.5
Outside of the casting, which had such huge potential, and a few character moments that manage to land, Fantastic Four is a roundly inert and pedestri ..
1.3
Clearly, this movie is terrible on multiple fronts and a case study of soulless summer spectacle gone wrong.
Christy Lemire
2.0
Theres nothing dazzling about this film that audiences will want to rave about.
BlackFilm.com
0.0
You have to employ the buddy system if you go to see Fantastic Four, so each of you can wake up the other at various points throughout the movie.
Dcw50
3.0
But this, whatever this is, is as big a mess of a comic book movie as I can remember.
The Concourse Deads
2.0
It could potentially work in an epic story, but here it calls attention to how disjointed the story is.
Nerd Report
1.9
The effects thrive to be showy but the visual exuberance cannot compensate for the lop sided storytelling.
SF Crowsnest
3.0
A tangled and weak script that wraps up with a quick, inconsistent, and boring finale.
Código espagueti
2.5
Admirable in its different ness, but its sadly unmemorable and unsurprising. And Dr Doom looks weird. Really, really weird. And not in a good way.
ABC Radio (Australia)
2.0
It robs them of a chance to artistically develop and robs us of a movie authored by an interesting filmmaker with a thrilling take on the material.
1.5
It seems like the Fantastic Four have acurse that wont let them have a good movie.
Reforma
3.0
But, who cares about diversity if the movie is atrocious.The first half of Fantastic Four is slightly entertaining but is quickly torpedoed with endle ..
Bet
1.0
Fantastic Four isnt a movie. Its just a thing pun intended, because we must find amusement somewhere that happens for 100 minutes.
1.5
Fantastic Four Is Grim, Gritty, and Boring Josh Tranks Superhero Reboot Gets a No Prize FANTASTIC FOUR Wait.
Portland Mercury
3.0
Theres plenty to explore there, but the movie doesnt spend any time fleshing it out.
College Movie Review
2.0
The rest of the cast all put in more effort than anyone should expect given what theyre trapped in, but theres no reality in any of it, just a rote, p ..
Splice Today
1.3
Is it too late to apologize to Jessica Alba and co. for their previous Four features
Life Zette
1.5
It would be wasting money to go see such an example of wasted potential.
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