Just seen it, yeah it's crap, 2005 one comes off better as a whole film =/
The sad part is, the film feels like 2 different parts. It starts off well, the setup of their expedition and getting their powers is really good. The problem is that's most of the movie, and so it's paced so poorly; after they get their powers, it just meanders for about a half hour before the ending fight scene, and then just ends.
Doom doesn't turn up until right at the end for the only action scene of the film (and he's done very poorly, there's a reason he's not in the adverts), where a bunch of things just happen with no explanation, but somehow Reed knows what he's doing, cos he's the main character I guess.
I don't even know what Doom's powers were supposed to be, they were so undefined. Whatever suits the script? Psychic powers I guess?
Heck, thinking on it actually, Reed uses his powers twice in the whole movie I think? They come off as a hindrance really
Thinking on the characters, Ben is barely in the film, and Sue is reduced to the "socially awkward girl". She has no personality beyond that she likes music and has a knack for "pattern recognition", which is there for the sake of one shoehorned scene.
Johnny is a generic dickhead street racer who doesn't get on with his dad.
And Victor is the angsty teenager/20something scientist who thinks all of man is evil.
Reed feels like the only one with a personality to me, he has appropriate backstory and motivation.
Throw in some really bad dialogue and fairly ropey effects, and the 2005 one comes out looking rosey. That got closer to Doom than this did!!
You can see the effort in the film evaporate as it reaches the last act, the actor's delivery genuinely seems to get worse from there. Miles Teller doesn't sound like he's trying =/
I just can't see a sequel to this going ahead frankly.
