Review of Fantastic Four (2015) by Keenan S — 21 Apr 2018
Hailed as one of the worst superhero films ever, it tanked the career of its director (Which also cost him his job as the director of a Star Wars film), was butchered to hell by the studio, and was also a financial flop.
Fantastic Four is a pretty run-of-the-mill origins story, but with a darker color palette and is also super serious in tone. Still, despite all the bad reviews, I had enough fun with this version (I greatly prefer it to the 2005 film).
It's stupid, poorly written, and the actors are left hanging, but for me, it had just enough camp value to elevate it guilty pleasure status. I liked the action scenes, I liked the interesting nuggets of character development, and it also gave me some good laughs (I love the indifference Reed's teacher has to his dreams and his world-changing technology at a science fair).
I sure as hell can't recommend this to other people - only for people have extreme tolerance for stupid, nonsensical action films. I had more fun than I should have, but oh well.
This review of Fantastic Four (2015) was written by Keenan S on 21 Apr 2018.
Fantastic Four has generally received negative reviews.
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