Fantastic Four is an exciting movie. With great special effects and loyalty to the comic book, this is an awesome film for all of the old Fantastic Four fans as well as today's new generation of fans.
The movie is centered around the effects caused by an experiment aboard an orbiting satellite owned by Victor Doom (Julian McMahon). The four scientists Dr. Reed Richards (Ioan Gruffudd), Ben Grimm (Michael Chiklis), Susan Storm (Jessica Alba) and Johnny Storm (Chris Evans) become exposed to an intense radiation storm while aboard the space station and develop superhuman powers. Reed Richards gets the ability to stretch his body. Sue Storm can becomes invisible and generate force fields. Johnny Storm is able to withstand and control fire. Ben Grimm later turns into a "thing" of solid rock and becomes incredibly strong!
Together, this "Fantastic Four", so named by a crowd of people that see what they can do, while trying to reverse their powers eventually detect and realize that they must stop the evil plans of Victor Doom, a billionaire businessman. He later becomes Dr. Doom as his body also changes from the radiation he was exposed to aboard his own space station. His body slowly turns into a super strong metal alloy that gives him the ability to absorb and control electricity.
In the beginning the movie, Dr. Richards approaches Victor Doom with a business proposition involving research on genetics and finding a cure for a wide variety of diseases. They agree to use Doom's orbiting space station to observe a unique space storm that contains the building blocks of life. Everything seems routine until the storm picks up speed and hits the station far ahead of schedule.
Caught completely by surprise, everyone on the space station is affected, though none of them are aware of it...until the genetic changes begin to happen.
That is when everything starts getting complicated. Sue Storm and Dr. Reed Richards become united in finding a cure for their "special powers", but in the process have to get past their personal conflict with each other. Once in love, they had a painful end to their relationship. Suddenly reunited by fate, they now try to be professional with each other in order to figure out a way to change themselves back the way they used to be.
Ben Grimm, who suffers the most when his total appearance is altered into a walking huge hulk of living rocks. Even though he has a heart of gold, his girlfriend rejects him immediately, frightened by reason of his new body. Ben Grimm even endures more humiliation when the press spreads the name "The Thing" given to him by Johnny Storm in a press interview. It turns out he cannot even use an elevator because his weight exceeds the limit of what elevators can handle, over two thousand pounds.
The movie grows more intense as Doom grows in his abilities and ambitions for power. Like his personality, he remains cold to human suffering, caring only for what he can use and control. Soon, the Fantastic Four challenged by Doom and forced into trying to stop him from killing and destroying millions of innocent people.
"Fantastic Four" is rated PG-13 for sequences of intense action and suggestive content.
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