“Fantastic 4″ tramples a superhero art decade – Le Point

We wanted to believe it. They had good reason to hope even the best of what reboot of Fantastic 4 driven by Josh Trank. As a first attempt, the young director of 31 years had achieved a master stroke: Chronicle , a squeaky rereading of super-heroic kind in impressive success ($ 126 million at the box office 12 million budget). It promised a more realistic version, more “unexpected”, arguing rightly that “one can not indefinitely tell the same story in the same way.” His choice of casting showed, at least, an original vision. We were excited to see Miles Teller (noted Whiplash ) and Michael B. Jordan (already seen in Chronicle and Fruitvale Station ) bring their key “indie” at blockbuster, and we rejoiced to find Kate Mara (former journalist House of Cards ) and Jamie Bell (ex-boy dancer Billy Elliot ) in these roles against type.

The worst that can happen if they said, is that Trank faces the Hollywood system and reaches not quite is to impose its artistic standpoint. But even mediocre, the Fantastic 4 would take probably enough to allow the road to 20th Century Fox to revive the franchise and prepare for a possible cross-over with X-Men freshly reboostés by the highly successful Days of Future Past . In 2015, the recipe superhero film is no longer a secret, and if Marvel has taught us anything, it is that it is important to respect the specifications to get away honorably.

Stargate

All that to say that we really did not expect such a dud. Next, the second Spider-Man Marc Webb is a wonder: could we at least feel sympathy for its hero rose water. Here difficult to hang on to anything. No emotion, no challenge, no interest. Boredom is virtually total from the beginning to the end.

endless succession of platitudes, the usual “account of origins” puts nearly an hour to settle. One patient wisely – this is, after all, a prerequisite and miracles are still scarce – but our indulgent yawning hardly get a reward. Instead of taking off as it should to the arrival of famous super powers (the only memorable sequence of the film), Fantastic 4 toggles seamlessly into a maelstrom narrative worthy of a bad episode Stargate . For a few, we would come to regret kitsch and good-silliness of Fantastic 4 of old.

It is to believe that Batman Nolan and Avengers Whedon never existed: devoid of seriousness but unable lightness (his few attempts at humor fall flat) this superhero film after all, very School seems to have learned nothing from the super-heroic decade that has elapsed. We understand better why Lucasfilm went back on his decision to entrust Josh Trank the handles of a spin-off of Star Wars …