Board Thread:Movies/@comment-4651179-20140124221431/@comment-1895174-20150805195713

To be fair, the reviews aren't incredibly negative. They're middling, but due to the way Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic calculate their scores means the movie is showing pretty poorly on them. It's currently at an 18% on RT with 11 reviews (2 positive, none from Top Critics), and a 33 on Metacritic with 6 reviews (4 mixed, 2 negative). That could very easily change by the end of the week, but for me at least one of those mixed reviews on Metacritic comes from a reviewer I tend to agree with. As of now the consensus seems to be "it's not a disaster".

The particular bone of contention (and I guess this could be considered mild story SPOILERs) is the team dynamic. Michael B. Jordan, Miles Teller, and Kate Mara have good chemistry when they're together, which unfortunately doesn't seem to happen all that much before the end of the movie. Jamie Bell's Ben Grimm in particular is far too often off-screen. Toby Kebbell doesn't become Dr. Doom (yes, Dr. Doom) until the very end of the movie, like Venom in Spider-Man 3. Johnny doesn't appear in the first quarter of the movie. Sue doesn't go with Reed, Ben, Johnny and Victor to the Negative Zone "Planet Zero" to get her powers.

It's also only 100 minutes long.