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FANT4STIC

FANT4STIC (The Fantastic Four)

2015

Josh Trank

Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Bell ...

4.1

14,762

Sci-Fi. Fantasy. Action THE FANTASTIC FOUR, a contemporary re-imagining of Marvel's original and longest-running superhero team, centers on four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.

	Media	Author	Review
		Brian Lowry Variety	"Not an embarrassment, but an experiment that didn't gel."
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"The latest reboot of the Fantastic Four — the cinematic equivalent of malware — is worse than worthless (...) nothing about this misbegotten, cynical attempt at franchise-rebuilding is fantastic (...) Rating: 0 (out of four)"
		Henry Barnes The Guardian	"A dawdling indie drama, gussied up in superhero garb (...) A sequel has been announced for June 2017 Do you know what would be really fantastic? Leaving them on the page (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)"
		Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"'Fantastic Four' feels like a 100-minute trailer for a movie that never happens. (...) A sense of heaviness, gloom and complete disappointment settles in during the second half, as the mundane set-up results in no dramatic or sensory dividends whatsoever."
		Rene Rodriguez Miami Herald	Fantastic Four is so bereft of all the things we expect from a superhero movie — humor, excitement, adventure, awe — that it plays like a drawn-out pilot episode for an upcoming TV series no one would ever watch again (...) Rating: ★ (out of four)"
		Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"Director Josh Trank has assembled a quartet of engaging, charismatic performers and stranded them in a miasma of exposition and set-up. So much time is spent putting the pieces on the board that there's barely any time to play with them."
		A. O. Scott The New York Times	"This 'Fantastic Four' (...) feels less like a tale of superhero beginnings than like a very long precredit opening sequence."
		Tom Huddleston Time Out	"This reboot of the Marvel superhero franchise is a film of two halves: the first likeable and fun, the second tiresome and loud (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"
		Tim Grierson Screendaily	"'Fantastic Four' emerges as a wounded animal of a superhero movie, only rarely showing flashes of the darker, more emotional breed of Marvel film it's trying to be."
		Lou Lumenick New York Post	"A lousy script, unfocused direction, incoherent editing, shockingly terrible special effects — and, probably, panicked studio executives — have left its four talented stars muddling through a dull superhero origin story with zero payoff (...) Rating: 0 (out of four)"
		Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"Everyone on screen in 'Fantastic Four' speaks in a flat, earnest monotone with a determinedly low-keyed air bordering on openly not giving a rip."
		Emma Dibdin Digital Spy	"A harmless and endearingly cartoonish throwback to more simple comic book movie times."

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