9 Reasons Fantastic Four Is A Fantastic Fail
4. Awful Pacing
This is one of the most poorly plotted movies I've ever seen.
The beginning of the film is completely rushed in order to get Reed to the Baxter Building, and then the movie drops to a total crawl so we can go through the really awful "character" interactions between Reed, Sue, Johnny, and Doom. After that, everything speeds up when at the last minute Reed decides he's going to bring Ben across dimensions with them and everyone just shrugs and says okay and waits. Then the film inexplicably jumps to a year later like we hit fast-forward in order to get to the inevitable fight between the team and Doom.
The movie never really knows what it wants to be. It can't decide which character it wants to focus on, it can't even decide who the villain is supposed to be. So it all just becomes a total, jumbled mess.
A superhero origin movie is not that hard to plot. Spider-Man, Iron Man, Captain America: The First Avenger, Batman Begins, Superman: The Movie show there are so many great templates out there that could have been used for this. Even the 2005 Fantastic Four film had a more coherent plot than this did.