Fantastic Four

Fantastic Four

Rating 3 out of 10

You know me.  If it's a big action movie my butt is in the seat.  Make it a superhero movie where people fly around and blow up bad guys I am there.  Sometimes the critical movie critics don't give these cool action movies their due and reviews are unfairly harsh.  This is not one of those movies.  Fantastic Four currently stands at 9% on www.rottentomatoes.com and that may be a tad high.  This movie sucks folks.

Imagine a Spiderman movie where the first hour and forty minutes they show how the spider bit poor Peter Parker and allowed him to shoot webs from his wrists then finished with a lame eight minute showdown with an underwhelming bad guy.  That is Fantastic Four.  The movie starts with Reed Richards (stretchy guy) in the 8th grade and slowly proceeds from there.

I am a Miles Teller fan.  He was fantastic in Whiplash and funny in the underrated That Awkward Moment.  He tries here but there is just not much he can do.  The rest of the acting is not very good.  Most of the action scenes you will have seen in the flush of commercials over the past month or two.  Drives me nuts too when the leads get these super powers and instead of being rock stars in the world they are outcasts and can't wait to shed those powers.  Of course there is the obligatory evil military section to the movie.  How horrible that the satan general wants the Thing to go into battle and save American lives.

You need to skip this one completely folks.  Not even worth renting.