Fantastic?! Four?!
What an utter mess of a film.
I knew before going to see it that there were a lot of production problems as the movie was rushed out to fulfil some contractual clauses regarding who owns the rights to the characters. That is no excuse for this turgid mess.
Miles Teller and Kate Mara need to go back to their respective agents and fire them. At least Jamie Bell has the decency to hide behind CGI for the small sections of the movie where he bothers to show up.
Since I am on a bad film name binge this week, there are 5 of them, that much is obvious from the trailer. Also the Fantastic part just never happens. Hold on, while I go back to the trailer and scream about fraud. Most of the quotes in the three trailers are either not in the film, or are used completely out of context in the trailer.
I can completely understand why Stan Lee doesn't appear in the movie. He must be so utterly disgusted at what was done to his creations that he wanted to distance himself from it. That they need to squeeze in an adoption to justify their black character, and completely miss that "the Thing" is actually a metaphor for racial discrimination must be like a punch in the face to his original creative talent.
Shocking! 4 out of 10. And of those 4 points, one is a sympathy vote for Miles Teller that this follows his tour de force in Whiplash, and another is for Kate Mara in a superhero costume.
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