Fantastic Four Review: 7 Stupid Blunders That Totally Ruin The Film

5. Everything To Do With Doctor Doom Is Terrible

An internet-connected robot who can't remember the word children; an underdeveloped CEO who goes full psycho out of nowhere. 2015's superhero movies have had some pretty blah villains, but Ultron and Yellowjacket look like the Joker next to Fant4stic's version of Doctor Doom. Toby Kebbell thankfully isn't playing Victor Domashev: Internet Blogger (that hacker persona revealed in interviews is cut down to a single first appearance), but the version of the iconic Marvel villain Fant4stic does deliver isn't much better than that. To begin with he's just rather under-utilised (probably because of those same hacker scenes being removed in the face of the online backlash), with a love-triangle barely registering and his friendship/rivalry with Reed Richards flipping from scene to scene. Having him play a key part in the team's creation (bigger than Sue) is pretty bad, but it's when he returns later on that things get seriously messy. Outside of the trademark cloak, the design is awful, with Superman Lives-esque glowing veins and a mouth covered by a melted breath mask, while his motivations and goals are skirted over faster than you can say Latveria. Who'd have though that we'd actually look back on Julian McMahon's caricaturish take with anything approaching fondness?