The Fantastic Four (1994)
Directed by Oley Sassone
When dosed with cosmic rays, four intrepid astronauts are given incredible powers. They decide to form a superhero group called the Fantastic Four to fight their arch-enemy, Dr. Doom.
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Unfortunately, it seems like Williams is trying to copy Jessica Alba’s boring and monotone performance from the mid-2000’s The Fantastic Four movies.
This is more like on the level of The Fantastic Four (either the 2005 or 2015 versions; both are equally mediocre), 2003’s Daredevil (the one with Ben Affleck) or 1983’s Superman III (the one with Richard Pryor and where the Man of Steel fights his drunken doppelganger), meaning this latest comic book adventure isn’t without its moments but overall is still nothing short of a misbegotten waste of time.
I should confess upfront, although I like Chris Evans and thought he was great as Johnny Storm in The Fantastic Four , I wasn’t sure how to feel about his casting as Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, in the new Marvel film Captain America: The First Avenger …
Stepping up to wear the red, white and blue is Chris Evans, previously seen in similar fare such as The Fantastic Four and The Losers.
Now, though, we just look at him and think: Yep, he’s Jason Bourne crossed with the Six Million Dollar Man crossed with The Thing from “The Fantastic Four,” with flesh that heals like the Terminator’s and a killing-machine purposefulness that’s just as gloweringly hellbent.
The last time a Hollywood movie stranded one of its characters on another planet, in Josh Trank’s The Fantastic Four , the chip on their shoulder grew so large it hatched a nefarious plan to destroy humanity.
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Jordan bounces back nicely after the already-infamous flop that was The Fantastic Four .
Fans of all that has come before (excluding Roger Corman's premature-ejaculation version of The Fantastic Four, natch) will weep tears of giddy joy at how crowd-pleasingly cohesive – and ridiculously fun – this film is.
Whether it’s “Spider-Man” or “Ant-Man,” “The Hulk” or “Captain America,” “Wolverine” or “The Fantastic Four,” rare is the origin movie with an origin actually worth a giant chunk of a movie.