2015 · action · adventure · sci-fi
Fantastic Four
Directed by Josh Trank1h 40m2015
Four young outsiders teleport to a dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.
Our read: Fantastic Four (2015) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive action · adventure · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme action / adventure, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- kinetic
- intense
- epic-stakes
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