The latest incarnation isn't perfect -- hell,
Ant-Man was better, after all -- but it sure isn't the flop being described by critics.
It's a solid origin story, even if this origin is different than the comic book story first told half a century ago.
Fantastic Four gives us solid character backstory, slightly better than average special effects, and a powerful villain to overcome. It fails to provide in-depth character development, forces team chemistry, and cheats the audience out of the comic-book style action it came to see.