Jun 17 2007
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Dir: Tim Story
Writ: Don Payne, Mark Frost, John Turman. Characters created by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby.
- Ioan Gruffudd … Reed Richards
- Jessica Alba … Sue Storm
- Chris Evans … Johnny Storm
- Michael Chiklis … Ben Grimm
- Julian McMahon … Victor Von Doom
- Doug Jones … The Silver Surfer
- Laurence Fishburne … The Silver Surfer (voice)
This was pants. Complete pants. Not even bad enough to be enjoyed.
Harsh? Maybe, but true. I wasn’t overly fond of the first film but it did the job of light entertainment. This one though was boring. An unforgivable flaw in an action-hero flick. Everything was ultra predictable, and nothing sparkled. Not even McMahon as the ebil Von Doom. And I can’t be the only one who is totally Fishburne’s supposedly gravitas filled delivery of lines. Yes, it worked in the first of the Matrix films, but it seems as though ever since then he has been called upon whenever a “serious voice” is needed. Enough already. Especially when the Silver Surfer was probably the only thing about this film that I liked.
There isn’t really that much more to say about this. I wasn’t impressed. I was bored. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone.
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