The latest Fantastic Four reboot never lets the heroes have a good time.

The movie is an existential face-off with the end of the world, as the sinister threat presented by the Entity — a nightmare of AI gone wild — raises the stakes of suspense.

Five years later, 28 Weeks Later director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo carried Boyle’s vision into the franchise wars with a remarkably different movie, a seemingly- post-apocalyptic family drama ...