In the movie surfers power source was his surfboard. It was his connection to it that gave him his power. In the movie Reed discovered a frequency that would disrupt that natural connection.
Doom created a device to tap into the boards power.
Surfer easily walked through all of the ff4 until his weakness was introduced. That was a plot induced issue though.
Of course surfer wasn't shown taking hits from a Thor level threat... The best we have is a doom surfer who was doing well against a ff4 amalgam until the device doom used to harness the power broke due to the human torches heat...
So far Thor doesn't display energy manipulation on the scale necessary to neutralize surfers powers. Surfer thus is a viable threat.
I'd edge to movie version of surfer 7/10