This was reboot of the 2005 film and that was a reboot of the 1994 film about 4 superheroes that banded together to form the Fantastic Four. In total there were 4 movies already made but the previous to this 2015 movie was a sequel so it doesn't count as a reboot.
The movie started off with Reed Richards (played by Miles Teller) and Ben Grimm (played by Jamie Bell) prototyping a teleporter with the former as brains and the latter as the muscle. Eventually their science project impressed Franklin Storm thta he both offered them scholarships in the Baxter Foundation. Ben Grimm is not the brains in the duo so he opted out and left Richards to continue with scholarship.
In the foundation Richards later found out that his science project was similar to what another Franklin Storm's protege named Quantum Gate by Victor Von Doom. The only difference, Richard's project worked. Sue Storm (played by Kate Mara) worked also on the project with Johnny Storm (played by Michael B. Jordan). These four eventually succeeded in teleporting their pod to another dimension they named "Planet Zero".
With their success, it was then decided by the facility's director to send in a team from NASA to venture into Planet Zero. This move disappointed the three members, Doom, Richards and Johnny Storm. They felt that since they built the Quantum Gate, they should be the ones to first try it out. Richards felt a bit of nostalgia he invited Ben Grimm to go along as well since he was also instrumental in their early days of their science project.
So off the four went to Planet Zero to explore but something went wrong, Doom fell from a cliff, the remaining three went back to their pod only to realize that they can't teleport back to Earth. Their pod suddenly opened and all three of them got exposed to the energy from Planet Zero. Sue Storm who was left on Earth finally overridden the re entry sequence and was able to bring back the pod to Earth but she was exposed as well.
The energy from Planet Zero exposed the four releasing some super powers in each one of them. Richards had the ability to stretch, Johnny Storm was now enveloped in flames, Sue Storm is now a telepath with invisibility powers and Ben Grimm was not cast in stone. The facility director now sees them with their super powers and tries to harness them for military applications. Richards somehow manages to escape and vowed to Ben that he will find a cure for all them.
A year passed and eventually Richards was apprehended by Ben, Dr. Allen, the facility's director persuaded him to help in rebuilding the Quantum Gate in exchange for resources in finding a cure for their powers. Dr. Allen then sends a team of explorers to Planet Zero to find Victor Von Doom still alive. They rescued Victor and brought back to Earth, but Victor had other plans. He thinks Earth must be destroyed so that he can create a new one at Planet Zero. He killed most of the people inside the base and returns to Planet Zero via the Quantum Gate with the other four in pursuit.
Doom activates a portal in Planet Zero and starts to harness the Earth's resources he thinks he needed to rebuild Planet Zero. With the four against it, Reed Richards, Sue, Johnny and Ben finally was able to defeat Doom and thwarts his evil plan.
Coming back to Earth, they are deemed heroes by the military and was given a new base of operations for which they can further study their abilities.
To summarize the movie, this thing sucks big time. I faulted the two films before this, the 2005 reboot and the Rise of the Silver Surfer as childish. But this one was much worse. It's not the actors fault. We got great actors here, Miles Teller, Michael B Jordan, Kate Mara and Jamie Bell. I can't find fault in their acting. The script and the story line was at fault.
After watching this movie, I loved the 2005 film and its sequel even more. The comic style of story telling then was fluid that I was able to grasp the journey the 4 or 5 went through, the struggles and the successes they had individually and teamwise. I was able to see how they developed their powers and how they were able to use them to their advantage. In this 2015 film, suddenly they know how to harness their powers after one year of having them. I was not able to appreciate their new found powers. As for Doom, one year in Planet Zero made him bitter about Earth and yet wants to build another Earth in that dimension, he wants what?
CGI and visual effects are sloppy in some scenes but its better than the previous so we let them slide but the story line and dialogues are so boring and uninteresting. We can understand that Reed Richards, Von Doom and Sue Storm was in on the project as they are scientists, but Johnny Storm? We saw Ben Grimm bowing out because he was just muscle. Johnny was too yet he was signed in.
Another dumb numbing idea for us was their decision to be the first to go to Planet Zero. We understand that they wanted to be the first to go there but reckless enough not to do extensive more research and simply "joy ride" there was so irresponsible on their part. I thought they were intellectuals, or maybe it was the alcohol they took earlier that did more of the thinking.
There a lot of misses more in this film than hits so it gave us headaches trying to make sense the things we saw here. Doom was able to telepathically kill people by simply walking by them, when he saw our four superheroes, why didn't he do the same thing? I would like to say that this movie is darker than the comic style of the 2005 and 2007 films but being darker doesn't mean its likable.
Currently showing on Netflix but we don't recommend it. Try watching another movie instead.
