“Fantastic Four” isn’t living up to the adjective assigned to the Marvel superhero team played by Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, Miles Teller and Jamie Bell.
Although director Josh Trank’s “Chronicle” arrived mostly to acclaim in 2012, critics are slamming his second film. “Fantastic Four” — another origin story about the formation of Mr. Fantastic (Teller), The Invisible Woman (Mara), the Human Torch (Jordan) and The Thing (Bell) — holds a disappointing 11 percent approval rating from critics counted, so far, on Rotten Tomatoes.
The majority of the aggregated film reviews fault studio 20th Century Fox for dragging in promising actors and subjecting them to an underwhelming plot with minimal allowance for character development, plus lousy CGI.