This should have great. The Fantastic Four aren't the X-Men, but they still have a respectable mythology to draw from. They have the power of the four elements! Together, they can make anything! And there was a space ship! Instead, the script just didn't pop.
The acting was spotty, at best. Chris Evans and Michael Chiklis did a fine job; both very believable as sudden superheroes. But Alba and Gruffudd were just phoning it in, and McMahon didn't seem to have a coherent idea of his character.
It had some moments, especially when they let the special effects people do their thing. But it should have been the story of how a villain and a team of superheroes become who they are. While the situation is fantastic, the emotional reality is utterly real. In these days of lone heroes and anti-heroes, telling the story of the creation team gives a film maker an opportunity to explore something relatively fresh. Instead, it was about five people more or less randomly walking through life.
Did like the Stan Lee walk on.
The acting was spotty, at best. Chris Evans and Michael Chiklis did a fine job; both very believable as sudden superheroes. But Alba and Gruffudd were just phoning it in, and McMahon didn't seem to have a coherent idea of his character.
It had some moments, especially when they let the special effects people do their thing. But it should have been the story of how a villain and a team of superheroes become who they are. While the situation is fantastic, the emotional reality is utterly real. In these days of lone heroes and anti-heroes, telling the story of the creation team gives a film maker an opportunity to explore something relatively fresh. Instead, it was about five people more or less randomly walking through life.
Did like the Stan Lee walk on.