Quartile rating: 4.5/10 · 1 rating
Four young outsiders teleport to a 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.
The 2015 Fantastic Four reboot is widely regarded as one of the worst superhero films ever made. The plot is disjointed and underdeveloped, spending most of its runtime on origin story setup before rushing into a chaotic, incoherent third act. The ending in particular is notoriously abrupt and poorly executed, with the final confrontation feeling unearned and hastily assembled. The acting is passable in isolated moments — Miles Teller and Michael B. Jordan show flashes of ability — but the cast is let down by a weak script and apparent reshoots that disrupted character arcs. Cinematography is competent but unremarkable, with a drab, desaturated visual palette that saps energy from the material. Novelty is low; despite attempting a grounded, Chronicle-influenced reimagining of a beloved property, the execution is derivative and the tonal experiment fails to differentiate itself meaningfully. A critically and commercially disastrous misfire across nearly every dimension.