Why It's Disappointing: Because it had sure potential to reinvigorate these characters, but it fails to grasp some of the most basic facets of filmmaking. Firstly, show, don't tell: the film simply takes far too long to assemble the titular team and their iconic rival, Doom. Then there's the flat and uninteresting characters, the tonal dissonance between scenes, the bad CGI, the atrocious editing and general feeling that both Fox and director Josh Trank totally fumbled this one. How To Improve It: Try literally anything else. The idea that the Fantastic Four get their powers from another dimension is actually pretty cool, and the actors and character designs are also fine, but if there's any comic book property that really never needed a grim-dark interpretation, it's something as inherently goofy as this. Don't give an indie filmmaker $120 million to burn through without proving themselves: hire a reliable action filmmaker like Matthew Vaughn or something, and if Fox had to continually instigate creative changes on-the-fly as reported, perhaps wait until there's a script ready that doesn't need to be constantly toyed with. Oh, and don't have alcohol be the reason that the accident happens in the first place. Please, anything but that.
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