[SPOILER - highlight to read]: Reed is a genius convenience store clerk with Ben. Reed's parents don't care about him, and Ben's dad is abusive. They're good friends and have each other's backs. Reed writes a paper for community college on teleportation that attracts the attention of Dr. Franklin Storm, CEO of the Baxter Building research center.
Storm has a son, Johnny, and an adoptive daughter, Sue, whose father, Storm's old partner, died in an experiment gone wrong. Johnny and Sue are party kids, and Sue is particularly disdainful of science. Reed and Sue don't get along at first.
Victor Doomashev is a anti-social Eastern European computer programmer and hacktivist who calls himself "Doom". He hates the 1%, particularly Storm, whom he claims corrupts science for profit.
Storm uses Reed's paper to complete some equations on a machine to access another dimension, the N-Zone. Reed invites Ben to watch the machine being turned on. Sue and Johnny are also there. Doom manages to hack into the Baxter Building's servers and use a computer virus to damage the machine, which explodes. Reed, Sue, Johnny and Ben are exposed to otherwordly energy and become mutants with powers that they can't control.
Storm takes them to the Baxter Building and creates containment suits for their powers. They begin to train. Reed and Storm also begin developing a way to revert the accident. Sue blames Reed for everything, but they eventually become friends and then a couple. Ben can switch off his powers when he's not in danger. Johnny changes colors based on heat intensity, and Sue has some borderline telekinetic thing. Reed is pretty much Reed.
Doom finds out that the four have acquired powers and becomes angry it's not him, so he comes up with a plan to break into the Baxter Building to access the N-Zone through the rebuild machine. As a distraction, he reprograms a bunch of stolen military drones, the "Doombots", to attack the building. The four come together as a team for the first time and save people.
Doom activates the machine and gets technopathy powers or something, basically energy blasts and making machines obey to him, and a fight ensues. The machine goes critical, and, in order to prevent it from exploding and destroying the city, the four push into it and Storm shuts it off.
There's a countdown before it reaches critical mass. Inside the N-Zone, the four battle Doom again, and manage to leave him trapped there after he disfigures himself soaking up too much power. The Four manage to escape, but Ben gets the blunt of it to protect Reed and can't switch back.
The machine is destroyed, Doom is gone, the four have learned to work as a team, and Reed vows to find a cure for Ben. And it ends there.
When will Fox stop being embarrassed of the source material for their cash cows, seeing it as something that needs their pretentious "fresh take" to work?
Isn't that just the same sort of plot as the Original FF film they made: [SPOILER - highlight to read]: Learning to work together, fight Doom whose also been mutated and hates them... Reed swears to spend his life searching for a cure for Ben.. Blah Blah except they're younger this time and in college.
Well Doom doesn't get mutant powers in the comics. He's more like an evil dictator version of Iron Man.
I just don't see the point in doing a similar origin story again. Spider-Man only got away with it because that's a Massive franchise. Plus they at least used an unused villain for the Spider-Man Origin reboot.
This franchise however is unlikely to get away with it.
Doom was mutated in the Ultimate FF comic, actually.
And this is a reboot so they do need to redo the origin since it's a new continuity and they want to re-introduce the characters. The easiest way to do that is an origin tale. Same thing they did with Batman Begins, MoS and Amazing Spider-Man.
Which I've been wrong about in the past. We all have, probably. It's just, this is the kind of "not good" sounding thing where I'm not even excited or planning on seeing it. Which is sad, considering I've always been such a big superhero fan. Maybe it's the overkill of seeing 4 new superhero movies every year.
Yeah but at least all those reboots gave us a new villain for the Origin story. And built up the main villain for a bit later in the series.
I remember the biggest complaint about the Original FF (aside from the cheesiness) was that it had no story. Just 5 explorers get powers, 1 of them decides to be the bad guy.
This sounds like the same thing again. The only difference I see is that they're all in college, instead of being established scientists/CEO's/Pilots e.t.c.
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