The acting was simply attrocious. No one had chemistry and everything was wooden. The characters were cliche at best and it felt as if they were trying too hard, and just failed. The "end battle" was anti climactic and seemed to take only a half a minute.
The graphics were cartoonish - even by the standards of Bugs Bunny. When Reed is clamped down in the Area 57 room, he was "stretched out" and you could clearly see when his own arm ended and the graphic stretch began. The other dimensional world looked extremely fake and the fire on Johnny Storm was really weird looking.
The script tried to be funny but wasn't and jumped around all over the place with boring conversation and no character development. It felt like someone was trying to outline a film and forgot to put it all in. The line delivery was terrible as well. Ben Grimm should have been a primary character and seemed rather secondary. I didn't feel invested in the story at all.
My friend mentioned that it felt like a SyFy channel movie. The only difference, I added, was that SyFy didn't try to take itself so seriously.
This is further proof that Fox is only good at X-Men and needs to hand the rights to Fantastic Four back over to Marvel. Even though Marel had a logo on there and Stan Lee was listed as a producer, it was not a true Marvel Studio or MCU film.
Congratulations, Fantastic Four, you get worst movie of the year to date!
As my friend put it on our way out of the theater, the original cast of the Fantastic Four probably got together to watch it and laugh! (And we wouldn't blame them a bit!)
