>>149977622
To be fair, both examples of Sue in film are bad because they're mischaracterizing her. Sue's certainly not useless but First Steps overcorrects (much like the contemporary comics) in some ways while frustratingly getting close to Sue's true characterization.
Sue's role in the team is that she's the empathetic one, the heart and moral center of the team. She's the sad one. The girl who was forced to grow up quickly into a mother. She doesn't save the day with violence, but is able to stop the problems that the F4 come across with compassion and understanding.
Her befriending Mole Man was great. Wonderful. But her defeating Galactus was ridiculous, it's just as bad as telling Johnny to kill the Surfer.
The movie should have either fully ripped off Rise of the Silver Surfer and had Sue be the one to empathize and show mercy to the Surfer, or followed the comics and give that role back to Alicia Masters while Reed uses the Nullifier to scare off Galactus.