Fantastic Four
When the precocious Reed Richards (Miles Teller) is finally given a chance to let his ideas run wild, the ability to teleport organic material to an alternate universe becomes possible. But, with the advent of such technology, darker government entities take interest. In an effort to maintain control and ownership of the teleportation concept Richards and several friends, John (Michael B. Jordan) Sue (Kate Mara), Ben (Jamie Bell), and Victor (Toby Kebbell) travel to this dangerous new universe– a move which alters their physical form in shocking new ways. Each changed, for better and worse the gang must learn to harness their new found powers to thwart a new kind of super evil threatening earth. Will the gang have what it takes to save the world in time? 
Directed by Josh Trank and written by a host of screenwriters including Simon Kinberg and Jeremy Slater Fantastic Four achieves a very strange phenomenon; while the film displays in 2D it’s actually a 3D film. Except, in this case I mean the third dimension is time, specifically how the human brain processes time and how long moving pictures are actually appearing on the screen in front of us. In this case the film is only about 100 minutes long but actually feels closer to three hours long. Abnormally paced throughout, the film has several acts outlined but only manages to lurch through the first two like a rusty diesel tractor belching forward through an unplowed field of rocks only reaching a steady idle in the last 20 minutes (which feel like 60 minutes). And, while the cast itself seems to be a promising ensemble, the film’s hideously moronic exposition throughout brings the Fantastic Four down to a Mediocre or Ho-hum Four at best. Bottom line, there are some good nuts and bolts throughout, they just don’t assemble into much of anything, maybe another re-boot will get things right? At best a rental, Fantastic Four is rated PG-13.
