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Review: FANTASTIC FOUR: 2015

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.\> The Fantastic Four was a disappointing movie, but eve! then it had its goo{
moments. The general story line of the movie was a boy (aka Reed Richards) that

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makes a fslightly dysfunctional) teleportation device; then a high-class institution

discovers him and he helps build one for them as well. When they finished, three of

the scientists and one friend of theirs went to the other side (which they knew was
an alternate dimension). After being there a while the land they were standing on

seemingly erupted, and in the chaos of getting back in to the teleport each of them
gained a super power. Later in the movie they go back to the other dimension to
save Victor von doom but

it is found later to be the wrong move and he nearly

destroys the earth. The plot of the story is pretty much the same as the original for
example it is, invention is invented, powers are received, good fights bad and wins. Also

in genre it was an actionl adventure bu@ound that while watching the movie it was

moreofascience/adventure.

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sound track always seems to matches the mood of the movie at the time like when there

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is an action scene the track is high paced with quit a bit of base. and through out the

whole movie they used their sound track really well like that. Makin-q it a little more
enjoyable to sit there ali.ratch it. The special affects in this one were also very good. The
body of Doom is one of the most extraordinary special affects jobstha{fuave ever seen.

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that happened when they were teleporting and second was the neon green "rr.rgy@i@, ,':f.
that resembled molten lava that was in the other dimension. One thing they could have

worked on a bit more though.

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the length of the movie, which seemed to be cut short

for some reason. Another thing about the movie was that it

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the movie very fast, and u,hen it did get to the "good" stutf it went by really fast. About

half of it was building the teleport then the next quarter

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soldiers then the next quarter was them fighting Doom.

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The actors in tliis movie did a great jo\rthe actors consisted of Michael B. Jordan (As
Johnny Storm), Kate Mara (as Sue Storm), Miles Teller (as Reed Richards), Jamie Bell
(as Ben Grimm), and Toby Kebbell (as

Victor Domashev aka Doom). All the actors

named and unnamed did an amazingjob at playing their part in the movie, but even then

the characters seemed boring. Being that they were almost all nerds and science

prodigies&ould not connect with any of them including Ben. Ben lives in a junkyard
and seems to be Reeds right hand man there's not much to him but he is the most normal
person in the group and later he tums into the thing. Johnny Storm is an African

American man who races his car and wrecks it, when his dad picks him up from the

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hospital his car is taken away and his dad forces him to work on the project since he is
good with his tools. Later he becomes the human torch and helps defeat Doom. Reed
Richards is a man who since elementary school has been trying to invent something

important/ impressive and with the help of his best friend Ben they did just that Reed
later tums into Mr. Fantastic. Sue Storm the female in the group is in the institution
because her father is the one in charge and she is doing pattern recognition she later is

able to turn invisible and is called the invisible girl. Victor Domashev is the strong silent

type who is also extremely smart, he is the one who started the project and the one who

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came up with the original large-scale design but he is also kind of a

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becomes Doom and tries to destroy the world as we know it, but the fantastic four defeats

him once they pull together and work as a team. This is an o'ok" movie but from a person
who wanted the excitement that was there in the original this one is just disappointing.

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My criteria for judging the movie:

1. Genre 2.

Music 3.Acting

4. The length of the movie 5. Characters 6. The special et1bcts

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A review on RottenTomatoes.com by Jason Best from Movie Talk

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