Fantastic Four (dir. Josh Trank).

[It’s] frustrating mostly because there’s so much potential in its introduction and style. Its casting and Trank’s clear talent as a visual filmmaker elevate the jumbled script before finally succumbing to a bizarre third act of unexplained powers and mess of generic CGI action. It’s easy to like the actors, characters, and their powers before being let down by some formulaic, lazy writing. It ultimately feels cobbled together instead of resembling any culmination of a unified vision. Trank clearly wanted to make a psychological horror film about teenagers gaining powers and the studio had other ideas.

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