Fantastic Four (2015)
Director: Josh Trank
Synopsis
A team of four young scientists working on a teleportation project to another dimension rich in energy are suddenly mutated when an energy burst hits them. The brilliant Reed Richards (Teller) finds his body has taken on elastic properties and he promptly runs away from the military who are interested in using the group as human combat weapons. He returns to help them rid the world of one of the group (Kebbell) who was left behind on the dimension and has sinced turned psychotic.
Review by Jason Day (@cinesocialuk)
Marvel Film have a punishing schedule of work ahead of them - 28 movies to deliver within the next five years - which might explain the proliferation of sequels and remakes, of which this is one.
Wisely opting for a spiffingly young, sexy and fun cast (led by Miles Teller, of Whiplash) this one has a slightly more cerebral and less out and out daft approach to the previous Fantastic Four films. A little more care has been taken, although the cod-scientific mumbo jumbo is still laced throughout the script.
I usually get so bored with comic book film adaptations and, with this one, it certainly takes a while for the action to get going (almost an hour, in fact), but then we are setting this film up for a 2017 sequel, but it delivers on the action front and certainly isn't half as poor as other reviews indicate.
If an old cinema traditionalist such as I was entertained throughout, you should love every second of it.
For the full review: http://cinesocialuk.com/2015/08/07/fantastic-four-2015/
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Cast & credits
Producers: Gregory Goodman, Simon Kinberg, Robert Kulzer, Hutch Parker, Matthew Vaughan.
Writer: Simon Kinberg, Jeremy Slater, Josh Trank.
Camera: Matthew Jensen.
Music: Marco Beltrami.
Sets: Chris Seagers.
Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Miles B. Jordan, Jamie Bell, Toby Kebbell, Reg E. Cathey, Tim Blake Nelson.
