Fantastic four review

So, back again, I know, its been a while, oh well, anyway, I went to go see the new fantastic 4 film on Monday, and what a film it was, well, something. This review is spoiler full.

THE GOOD:

For the most part, this film is actually pretty good. There. I said it. Up until the last 20 minutes or so, this film is a very good telling of the origins of marvels first family. it does a decent job of setting up who each of the members are and a little bit of background. the darker tone of the film works as well, in the context of them getting their powers. The first time they go to "planet zero" as they call it, or the negative zone, to most other people, is where they get their powers. Doom is the cause of it all, cant stay away from the "power". The way they get their powers is a clever way of doing it, having each person have something similar to their powers happen to them.
The Thing, the way he looks is a merit towards the film as he looked very good, a lot better than the prosthetic version of the character from the original films. Micheal B Jordan as the human torch, as much as there was issue with him in the role, personally, i think he worked very well as the character. In the comics, Johnny has always been a bit of a dick, and Jordan played this roll well.
THE LEGO CUP, HOW DID I FORGET, ITS AWESOME  

THE BAD:

Ok, I know i said it was a good film, but Jesus did i lie. The director, Josh Trank, released a tweet saying that he had a far better cut of this film, and I don't doubt that, you can clearly see that Fox went at this with a cleaver and the stapled it back together in the way of a generic "cookie-cutter" superhero film. The director of this film, Josh Trank (known for directing the sci-fi film "Chronicle") tweeted just before the film came out, saying something along the lines of "I made completely different version of this film, it was great, Fox have changed it and you probably wont see my version". he tweeted that about 2 days before the film came out. mark of death or what? the film does seem like fox has attack Tranks version with a cleaver and attempted to re-animate it in a weird Frankenstein hybrid of a sci-fi/superhero origin film. There were apparently over 40 pages of re-shoots to do for this film, which made up no less than 1/3 of the entire film. There were also rumors that Trank and Reed Richards actor Miles Teller nearly came to throwing punches at each other over a disagreement on set, as well as Trank basically being a massive douche to everyone on set. There are dozens of other rumors like this about the backgrounds of this film, and if a small percentage of them are true, then its amazing this film actually even got to cinemas, let alone did as "well" as it did. the main issue I personally have with this film is, that because it was slated as a fantastic 4 film, there was a certain level of expectations, even from fox, who had done rather well with it last marvel film X-Men: Days Of Future Past. if it wasn't given the fantastic 4 name, and was an independent story about a group of scientists going to another dimension and them having powers due to an accident, yes it wouldn't be completely original, but it would have made the whole thing seem a lot better than it was.

I give is a 6/10. It was going for something actually quite good, but the ending ruined all of that, as well as the horrid miss-use of Dr Doom, the lack of character interaction, development or just overall grit. however, there is a squeal slated for 2017, and with this cast, i would be quite excited for it, If the get it right.

Ok, so that's my fantastic 4 review. If you guys have anything you want to add or discuss, leave a comment on here on the facebook page, as well as dropping a like at the facebook page, linked below. My next post, when I get around to it, will probably be on some sort of news, not sure yet, watch this space.



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