Synopsis: Five young adults attain superhuman powers after a teleportation journey to another planet goes wrong.

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The much anticipated reboot of the Fantastic Four has arrived, and it’s mediocre at best. FOX can do no harm with the X-Men franchise, while it keeps faltering with the Fantastic Four movies. There is no denying it’s significantly better than the previous two disasters that starred the likes of Chris Evans and Jessica Alba, this reincarnation does nothing to go head to head with it’s Marvel friends. Luckily for Marvel, this is a FOX movie. This time around Tim Day luckily didn’t see the light of day in the directors chair, instead the man in charge wasChronicle’sJosh Trank.

新的Fantastic Fourstarts out with the origin story. Smart play, and an upgrade from the previous version which didn’t establish any sort of origin story. I’ll try not to compare it to the previous versions, but it’s hard not to, as it’s the only parallel you can draw upon from. Young Reed Richards (欧文法官) is a child genius who’s only interest is to build a machine that can teleport objects. He befriends a kid named Ben Grimm (Evan Hannemann) and they succeed in making an object teleport.

Forward years later, teenage Richards, now played byMiles Teller由富兰克林·风暴（Franklin Storm）博士招募，参加了著名的巴克斯特学院（Baxter Institute），这是一所杰出的科学家和有远见的学校。理查兹（Richards）的任务是继续从事传送项目，但是他与一些新队友一起加入了。苏风暴（Kata Mara)是富兰克林的养女风暴,and bad boy Baxter reject Victor Von Doom (Toby Kebbell), rounding out the group is Franklin’s son Johnny (迈克尔·乔丹（Michael B. Jordan）). The group creates an ultimate teleportation machine that sends them to a place affably called “Planet Zero” (the name is fitting as there is zero going on in that planet). When they arrive on this mysterious planet things go horribly wrong and they are all affected by a explosion of some sort of chemical radiation that gives each of them superpowers, in turn making them into the Fantastic characters we were hoping them to be.

虽然Trank并没有摧毁这部电影，但他当然不会带来伟大。这部电影中有很多原始概念与神奇四侠的原始漫画刻画有关。例如，在漫画中，约翰尼·斯托姆（Johnny Storm）是现实生活中的兄弟姐妹，与苏（Sue）一起，这部电影以收养方式使他们成为兄弟姐妹。这导致了另一个被起诉并从科索沃采用的概念？嗯？授予这些故事情节的变化是由于非裔美国人演员扮演乔尼·斯托姆（Jonny Storm）的演员而促成了这种变化，这个角色总是被描绘成高加索人。我发现这是这部电影的一个有趣的角色，它实际上与另一个神奇四侠角色的刻画非常吻合。Victor von Doom在电影中被描绘成原始四人的一部分，而不是Grimm，他无处可寻，也不是巴克斯特学院或团队的一部分。

Majority of the blame for what goes wrong will be laid on Trank, and rightfully so, the talented cast of actors doesn’t necessarily come through either. Miles Teller, who has been gaining rave reviews for his last few films is okay as Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, but definitely not memorable. He didn’t own the role like he had the potential to. Ben Grimm/The Thing, played byJamie Bell在很大程度上是被遗忘,除非你数倍he screams out for help. A man made of rock is asking for help? He’s supposed to be the most powerful character. Sue Storm/Invisible Woman is played by Kate Mara, though it could have been easily played by Rooney with her dull and lifeless approach. At 32 she doesn’t quite strike you as a teenager or college kid, having her portray that was like the actors from the cast of Beverly Hills 90210 portraying they are high schoolers, not legitimate at all. The Invisible woman was truly invisible in this movie. Michael B. Jordan gave a subpar performance as Johnny Storm, mainly due to the writing of his character. Instead of being a cocky, comedic, renegade, he plays a peacemaker, that acts more like the voice of reason instead of an instigator. That juicy rebel role went to Victor Von Doom, played by Toby Kebbell, who not only fits his character the best, but stands out the most out of the entire cast. He’s the only character that displays some persona. If any one actor gains something out this movie, it will be Kebbell.

The special effects weren’t all that impressive, but it wasn’t overly forced with wild CGI either. The best thing about the movie and likewise it’s biggest downfall is the establishing story. The set-up origins story takes up most of the first hour of the movie. That wouldn’t be an issue if it was a standard Marvel movie which routinely hits 2 hours, this one barely crosses 90 minutes.

The origin story is ambitious, but it has way too many holes in it. The events that are established in the lead in don’t justify the events that transpire. Some logical questions that come to mind that struck me were…Why was Ben Grimm part of the first teleport mission? He wasn’t even part of the group that build the actual machine, nor was he established as a key contributor to the original model of it. Why was Grimm forced upon the audience and brought into the big picture when he was hiding in the shadows for the first part of the film? Why was Victor/Dr. Doom filled with such hatred and killed everyone in sight *spoiler alert* including Dr. Storm, the man who trusted him the most? What beef did he have against the Fantastic Four, considering they tried to save him from dying? Some of the logical, yet major questions that weren’t touched on in the movie.

It was plainly evident that the Reed Richards and Victor Von Doom story was ripped-off from the Professor X and Magneto story arc in X-Men, there are numerous parallels. Doom turns rogue against his only friends. Richards shows continuous remorse for Victor ala Xavier for Magneto. Even Dr. Doom’s powers were a replica of Magneto, the crushing of the insides with a glare and clenching of the fist, instead of metal doing the crushing like with Magneto, Doom has the powers of crushing the insides of the body. Too similar. They did do a good job of making Doom look imposing and scary though.

最令人沮丧的部分是结局。另一个 *扰流板警报 *是令人难以置信的匆忙结局和最后战斗。我什至不确定Doom博士试图完成什么（可以接管世界并统治世界）。所有动作均在零星球上进行，因此显然它们的动作比地球的动作要多，地球的战斗为零。看不见的女人正在通过看上去像沐浴的泡泡那样泡沫。厄运的处置是薄弱而没有想象力的。

总体而言，《神奇四侠》并不是一部可怕的电影，这是它的第一个化身，它只是一部平庸而令人难以置信的电影。与过去几年发行的任何漫威电影相比，它都显得苍白。对于动作漫画电影，它缺乏这种行动。当您有机会重塑击中或错过的车轮时，Trank错过了。起源的故事相当整洁，但是回报不在，扩展的堆积迫使突然而尴尬的结局。演员阵容不会像您期望的那样凝胶。这是一部具有相当高的期望的电影，福克斯（Fox）手中有潜在的萧条。仍然希望将这种新版本的专营权维持生计，但不要掌舵。也许《神奇四侠》最能成为X战警宇宙中的搭档？令人失望的压力较小，无论如何，这些神奇的四部电影都没有受到打击。 I did fall asleep for about 10 minutes during this screening, hey I had a headache. I won’t blame my head pain on the movie, but it certainly didn’t cure me of it. Out for 10 minutes and didn’t miss a thing, maybe that says something about the movie after all.

Additional Thoughts:As negative as my review might sound, I did enjoy certain parts of the movie. The origin story was good. I appreciated the effort to move the details and story arcs around. Toby Kebbell was really fun to watch and nailed the part. Most importantly the film wasn’t a trainwreck (shout out Amy Schumer). I’ll be a bit generous with my grad of it. It was a definitive improvement over the past ones, and easily the best Fantastic Four movie to date, but is that saying much really?

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 100 minutes

Release date: August 7, 2015 (USA)

Average, Not Fantastic

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