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Fantastic Four

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• Adventure
• Sci-fi

• 2015
• Josh Trank
• 99 mins
• 12A

Summary

Fantasy action adventure starring Miles Teller, Michael B Jordan, Kate Mara and Jamie Bell. A group of gifted young scientists works together to build a machine capable of travelling to another dimension. However, when they decide to test the invention out for themselves, the faraway world they visit changes each of them irrevocably.

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A star rating of 2 out of 5.

Alan Jones

The first family of Marvel comics gets royally shafted again in the fourth disheartening attempt at putting their story on screen. Four scientists teleport to another dimension where cosmic radiation gives them superpowers in this contemporary reboot directed by Josh Trank, who fails to invest this simple escapade with the same shrewd naturalism he brought to his refreshed superhero adventure Chronicle. In the mysterious Area 57 facility, the quartet learn to harness their new rubberised/invisible/fiery/rock-solid abilities and team up to save Earth from black-hole oblivion. It's completely banal in set-up and execution, with perfunctory CG visuals of the now done-to-death variety, and even the capable young leads can't punch above the bog-standard myth-making, by-the-numbers script and reams of trite exposition. Feeling more like an elongated trailer for the next, better episode, this is strictly cardboard cut-out stuff, a tedious, underwhelming and hardly fantastic experience all round.

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4.3/10

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Credits

Cast

rolenameReed Richards / Mr FantasticMiles TellerJohnny Storm / The Human TorchMichael B JordanSue Storm / The Invisible WomanKate MaraBen Grimm / The ThingJamie BellVictor Von Doom / Dr DoomToby KebbellDr Franklin StormReg E CatheyDr AllenTim Blake NelsonMrs RichardsMary Rachel DudleyJimmy GrimmChet HanksBen's motherMary-Pat GreenMr KennyDan Castellaneta

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rolenameDirectorJosh Trank

Details

Theatrical distributor

20th Century Fox

Released on

2015-08-07

Languages

English | Spanish

Guidance

Some violence.

Available on

DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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