Fantastic Four (2015), PG-13, 0 stars

Miles Teller trying to save himself from a terrible movie.

Expectations...we go into a superhero movie with such high hopes or low hopes...you know what, screw it. I'm going to go straight to the point because watching the trailer I had little hope for this movie because of the exceptional talent in the casting. However, this movie hurt me so badly that it seemed like I was watching a powerpoint presentation of a creative build-up to another Fantastic Four movie and there are a few good ideas and I hope that more could develop in its production of the movie. With a hefty budget and an exceptional cast, this movie is an abomination to the superhero genre and this is what Josh Trank and Fox could come up with. I'll go to the controversy later. It competes with Batman & Robin to see who scrapes the bottom of the crowded superhero movie barrel. It's that horrendous.

Reed Richards (Miles Teller) and Ben Grimm (Jamie Bell) have been best friends ever since childhood and they are entering a science fair to show off their machine, but, unfortunately, it causes an energy surge that breaks the basketball net, disqualfying them. Impressed by their work, they are approached by Dr. Franklin Storm (Reg E. Cathey) and her adopted daughter, Sue (Kate Mara) to invite Reed to join him in a project at the Baxter Foundation. As Franklin face the board of directors headed by Dr. Harvey Allen (Tim Blake Nelson), who is not too eager to use young people as scientists. He wants to use inter dimensional travel to transport new resources to Earth.

Franklin needs Victor Von Doom's (Toby Kebbell) help, as he started the project. He urges Victor to go back to work as he was initially rejected. He does go back to work as he has a thing for Sue. Johnny Storm (Michael B. Jordan) gets involved in an accident in a street race and he joins the team and quickly befriends Reed. All four of them work together and create a bigger teleportation machine called the "Quantum Gate". The experiment goes well but Allen tells Franklin and the team that he and his board members are going to be the first to go to Planet Zero.

The science team is disappointed as Reed and Johnny share a drink with Victor to lament the news. They decided to teleport themselves anyway and Reed calls Ben to invite them to join them. The four guys suit up and teleport themselves to Planet Zero and they find soil and a green substance to create an eruption and causes trouble that teleports them back and brings a wave of radiation back that also affects Sue and they all have different types of "infection" with their bodies. However, they are stuck with it and so are we with this boring movie.

The Fantastic Four...really?

This is an abysmal movie. It is one of the worst superhero movies I've ever seen. It sucked me and the audience into a black hole of unconstructed space with a padded plot, terrible special effects and not much chemistry between the four main characters. Like 2005's version of the Fantastic Four, they at least had chemistry in an intolerable movie. Most of the scenes felt like the actors became too self-serious in this joyless material. It is like they are not having fun to recite these lines and go along with this dull plot.

Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara and Jamie Bell do what they can with this script and material but it is ridiculous because the major flaw is that there is a time-jump in this movie. Do you think it would be possible that they would've controlled their powers in about two weeks...not a frickin' year? What do you think that cost...thousands of lives and waste of time, maybe? Plus, Victor Von Doom is a great character in the comics and they turned him into a forgettable character with just the task of destroying the Earth. What's left to destroy after that?

Ok, I understand Josh Trank, director of Chronicle, tweeted out Fox executives for interfering with his passion of making the movie that could have potentially been a great movie because Chronicle was quite good. What happened to the passion and artistry that film directors wanted to make? It's all about the money. I could tell you this, Fox: Not much money will come out of this and you will lose a lot because of y'all's interference. Stay away from potential successful projects. Thanks for the insipid pacing, terrible special effects, joyless performances, ridiculous plot, an endless build-up and one of the worst climactic sequences I've ever seen.

They wanted to destroy Earth in the movie. Well, they destroyed whatever hope that is left for a Fantastic Four franchise. Fox can just rejoice or shrug to whatever loss they have to this project. It is the worst movie of 2015 so far.

One last message, Fox:

ZERO