The Fantastic Four & A Fantastic Night

Had been to Satyam yet again on Tuesday night to watch The Fantastic Four. The movie was good. I would recommend a watch-it-once for the movie. There is nothing great about the story or the characters, the movie failed to introduce the characters in a better way. The graphics are good.

Hope the sequel would do a better job at it. I liked Spiderman much better than this one.

The movie starts with a scientist, Richard, who believes that mutations are caused by the exposure of the organism to cosmic rays. He predicts that a burst of cosmic rays from the sun is on its way and they could do tests and prove his theory. Together with his partner Ben, he seeks the help of Victor, who owns a space station. Victor’s assistant, Susan and Richard were one time lovers.

The four, accompanied by Susan’s brother, Johnny, reach the space station, only to find that the cosmic rays are going to arrive well ahead of time. They are unable to take any protective measures, and all five end up getting exposed to the cosmic rays.

After crash landing back to earth, they start discovering new abilities in them. Johnny can turn himself into a ball of fire and can fly. Susan can become invisible and also create force fields. Richard can stretch his body to any shape and length. Ben turns into a very strong and powerful creature, which makes him loath his abilities since he has lost his good looks and his wife leaves him due to his looks.

Victor’s companies board members fire him for his inabilities to create profits, and in rage he discovers that his body is changing into a metal, much powerful than titanium. He can draw power from other sources like electricity and can cause extensive damage.

While the first four use their powers for good, like saving lives of people, Victor uses it to kill all the board members. He understands that his powers can be matched by the other four, so he plans to annihilate them.

Meanwhile, Richard creates a machine which would reverse the process of mutation created by the cosmic rays. Richard, Susan and Ben are desperate to get back to their original selves. Johnny accepts his mutation and thinks that its cool.

Victor gets winds of this machine and tricks Ben into using it. After hitting Ben, he takes Richard hostage and super cools him in an attempt to kill him. He later unleashes a heat seeking missile on Johnny.

Johnny escapes by misdirecting the missile on a ship carrying garbage. Susan knows what is happening and goes to help Richard. Ben realizes his mistake by getting back to his old self, and he converts back into the creature. Together the four manages to overcome Victor by freezing him after heating him to a very high temperature.

The movie ends with the four coming to terms with their powers and promising to do good for the human race with their powers. Also shown in the assistant of Victor, recovering his body and taking it to his native Latveria.

The movie got over at 12am, and we (Gokul & myself) came out to find that it was raining. There were no signs of a let off, and after waiting for half an hour, we decided to go home. By the time we reached home, we were drenched.

Once we reached the flats, we realized that we had not taken the key to the staircase door. So we were stranded outside our own flats. We had the keys to our house, but we did not have the keys to the staircase, which would take us to our house.

So we had to go to one of Gokul’s friend’s house nearby. We did not get any chothes, so had to sleep in the drenched ones, and that too under a fan.

There’s no need to guess what happened after that. You can read about it in the post below.