I really wanted to see how bad the movie and if it really was as bad as everyone said it was going to be and I decided to give it a go.

Overall, the story looked like it was looking to adapt the more darker tone of the once Ultimate universe of F4 because we see in the beginning that Reed Richards is pretty fucking demented and insane and he thinks of that as a compliment which is very similar to what The Maker is like in the comics. I actually thought the first act did a pretty solid job of establishing the bromance between Reed and Ben, Reed's relationship and occasional flirting with Sue and Johnny Storm's firecracker takes-no-shit hot head personality, and Victor's character was done well had the most potential of making him an interesting character of sorts with an actual depth in my opinion. I did have a major problem in this section of the movie and that was Sue not traveling with the guys to the Negative Zone (I know it's called Planet Z, but I'm not fucking calling it that because we all know it's the goddamned Negative Zone.), when she was one of the people who pitched in with the project of that teleporting machine and she's just smart as Reed and Victor. But, I guess women need to take a back seat on things, right? Because, women....heh. -_____-

But all of that went out in the 2nd act and this is where the movie started tumble and crash and splatter all over, bleeding everywhere downhill. First of all.....in that part where they do the one year skip, I really think that was the studio execs making decisions to cut 30 minutes of the movie because everything that happens from there to the end of the movie just feels so FRAGMENTED and rushed.

Like, the movie doesn't even explain why Reed was looking for scrap metal and was just camping out in Latin America when he should've been looking for his friends when the whole reason for that is because of the whole "Oh, I feel like I let my friends down so I'm just gonna be a mopey loser." WHEN THEY DON'T EVEN GIVE A GOOD EXPLANATION OF HIM ACTING LIKE THAT IN THE FIRST PLACE.

Also, can we talk about how in the third act about how Victor looked like a trashed test dummy hobo who's literally wearing a trash bag as his suit? Even though I thought that him taking down those guards in that hallway was actually kinda badass, I really couldn't feel his motivation as a villain. I felt like there needed to be some kind of flashback scene for him in his childhood of being raised in a corrupt country of Latveria and his mother being killed by the government soldiers and his father dying in Victor's arms as he was protecting him from the cold while they were being chased by the government. (This is what happened in Brubaker's Books of Doom I think) I just needed SOMETHING palpable to make me truly believe and get behind Victor's disdain and highly cynical viewpoint of humanity and it just wasn't there.

The only saving grace was for this movie was Franklin Storm, because his character was likeable and you really felt that he wanted to help and lookout for the kids but even when he died, the dramatic euphoria and tragic feeling wasn't there because I felt this movie in the middle was just all over the place and it didn't give time to develop its characters and BREATHE LIFE into those characters.

In conclusion, this movie had a potential from first act but it then turned into a ultimate shitshow with no characterizations from its characters with a heavily fragmented plot. It's still not as bad as Avatar: The Last Airbender but, holy moly....this is probably the worst Marvel movie, and probably the worst comic book movie that I've ever seen.

I give it a stinking 4/10.