FANT4STIC

"Not an embarrassment, but an experiment that didn't gel." 

"The latest reboot of the Fantastic Four — the cinematic equivalent of malware — is worse than worthless (...) nothing about this misbegotten, cynical attempt at franchise-rebuilding is fantastic (...) Rating: 0 (out of four)" 

"'Fantastic Four' feels like a 100-minute trailer for a movie that never happens. (...) A sense of heaviness, gloom and complete disappointment settles in during the second half, as the mundane set-up results in no dramatic or sensory dividends whatsoever." 

Fantastic Four is so bereft of all the things we expect from a superhero movie — humor, excitement, adventure, awe — that it plays like a drawn-out pilot episode for an upcoming TV series no one would ever watch again (...) Rating: ★ (out of four)" 

"Director Josh Trank has assembled a quartet of engaging, charismatic performers and stranded them in a miasma of exposition and set-up. So much time is spent putting the pieces on the board that there's barely any time to play with them." 

"This 'Fantastic Four' (...) feels less like a tale of superhero beginnings than like a very long precredit opening sequence." 

"A lousy script, unfocused direction, incoherent editing, shockingly terrible special effects — and, probably, panicked studio executives — have left its four talented stars muddling through a dull superhero origin story with zero payoff (...) Rating: 0 (out of four)"