Fantastic Four (Josh Trank, 2015)

Director Trank promised a fresh angle on superheroics with his debut, Chronicle, which at least had the virtue of being darker-tinged than the standard Marvel/DC merchandising exercise. If he'd had any common sense, then, he would have run a mile when Marvel did come calling with yet another reboot request, furthermore for one of its less interesting franchises. Sadly, this was not to be and the end result is much worse than the somewhat excessively reviled 2005 film, with none of the humour, the characters faddishly and pointlessly turned into teenagers and the action, when it does finally arrive after an incomprehensibly protracted origin segment, muddled and illogical. The main plus is that it may actually not lead to sequels as a result.

3/10