If I had known just how bad the new movie adaption of Fantastic Four was going to be, I think I would’ve read the comic book instead.

If you still want to go and see it, I won’t spoil anything for you. But personally, there’s not much to miss. FOX’s second attempt at recreating the comic book – ten years after their first duo of Fantastic movies – was not entirely successful.

The movie lacked everything a comic book provides: color, suspense, and character development. The movie received terrible reviews, with an 8% on Rotten Tomatoes, a 27% on Metacritic, and a 3.9 out of 10 on IMDb.

I felt like I was watching and constantly waiting for a cinematic moment that never happened. The plot flew by until the movie was almost over, and the falling action was rushed and unimportant. The whole movie just kind of unraveled itself and then ended after a ten minute battle scene in the most uninteresting setup ever. But the thing is Marvel already has a sequel promised for us in 2017, so it seems like it will never end.

And there was no romance!! Even the brother-sister relationship that was introduced offered nothing for the audience to root for. Which characters were I supposed to support? What did the characters really want? The team of superheroes had no chemistry. Their interactions were dry and uninspiring, and I don’t see how the four of them would ever effectively make a fantastic team.

Overall, I would say that this Marvel mission was a failure. Sure, just like any other superhero movie it had action, strange people with strange powers, and a fight against the government, but it majorly lacked in the parts that counted. The little superhero-enthusiast kids in the theater seemed restless, and I wasn’t super entertained either.

There were a lot of better things I could’ve done with my time and money I wasted sitting in the theater. Maybe next time I’ll go to the library and look through old comic books.