After 8 years of waiting for another Fantastic Four movie, the reboot directed by Josh Trank (Chronicle) was something that no fan ever admitted into seeing due to the nature of how the movies cast, direction and possibly script is being mishandled by the long hated movie studio 20th Century Fox. It wasn't till back in Febuary where I was lucky enough to actually withness the movie first hand with my wife and son as a special sneak peek.





THE GOOD

So what is the good behind this movie? Does it exist, do these characters have good moments? And the answer is simply YES. Lets start with the beginning, for those of you who believe Reed is a grocery store clerk, he isn't. You actually do not know anything about his occupation other than he is brilliant and has built genius inventions that caught the eye of the Baxter Instituition. While working on teleportation in the beginning of the movie with young Reed & Ben doing the experiment you see in trailers, it turns out that same invention is what Reed has always achieved in life was crossing over to another dimension, pretty much being the next Neil Armstrong, or Christopher Coloumbus minus the rape and slaughtering.



The picture I have to the left is when he is actually invited to go to the Baxter Institute. Before this moment you are introduced to a lot of their personalities, when I mean personalities I mean the four in general. While every character may look different from their comic book counterpart, they're likeable but also have this certain chemistry and bond that was sorely lacking in the Tim Story movie. It gives you this vibe of not to actually feel like "HOLY SHIT, I GOT COOL SUPERPOWERS" but "HOLY SHIT, WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING TO ME!?!?" vibe instead. They all feel like these powers are truly sicknesses, where as in the Tim Story movie their feelings towards are explained in one sentence by Reed once or twice and never mentioned again. Hell its even implied Reed wanted to be a superhero. Here, there is none of that till the third act of the movie.



While a lot of that is going on, you of course are going to have the one person who does not believe in the project at all, cut to Harvey Elder who is the CIA liason of the project. While he does play an asshole, you don't get that hint of villany that is present with the character in the comics. Although he does mention an island (Easter Egg?), anywho, you have him who does not agree with what has happened and pins the blame all on Franklin Storm. Another great actor in this movie who believes in the four. All of them do a good job at the script that was presented to them but what about Doom?



As for Doom, he wasn't a terribly written character, but they could of done a lot better. Is he as terrible as the past two movies? Absoulutely not, in fact of being obvious exact opposite he really is a big threat to the Four. As for his plan, his plan is to obtain all knowledge of other universe and dimensions, which is why he looks the way he is. The Negative Zone has not only changed the way he looks but has made him a freak of nature. While the route does fit the movie, it just feels very bland to have what caused the F4 to get their powers have it happen to Doom. While of course written better, it still makes little to no sense to have that idea ingrained in audiences head that he too was part of the accident.

