Fantastic Four is a 2005 superhero film based on the Marvel Comics comic Fantastic Four, directed by Tim Story, and released by 20th Century Fox. This is the second live-action Fantastic Four movie to be filmed. The previous attempt, a B-movie produced by Roger Corman, was never officially released.
The film was released in the U.S. and Canada on July 8, 2005. It was the third superhero movie of the year, after Elektra and Batman Begins.
Plot:
Brilliant but timid and bankrupt scientist Reed Richards is convinced that all evolution is caused by clouds of cosmic energy. He calculates that Earth is going to pass one of these clouds soon, and together with his partner, the gruff yet gentle pilot Ben Grimm, pleads his MIT classmate, ultra-rich and arrogant Dr. Victor von Doom, CEO of his own enterprise, to allow him access to his space station. Von Doom agrees, but only under the conditions that he has the final say in all the experiments and receives a majority of the profits. They also encounter the calm and rational Susan Storm, Von Doom's right hand and genetic researcher, and her diametrically opposed brother Johnny, the maverick hot-headed playboy pilot. Susan attended MIT with Reed and Victor. She also dated Reed at the time and there still exists some tension between the three. Apparently, Susan left Reed because she wanted him to take action and not only see things in terms of variables.
The quintet travels to space to observe the cosmic energy clouds, but the clouds materialise well ahead of schedule, and all five are engulfed by its vast energies. The astronauts make it home intact, however, they shortly begin to mutate and develop their characteristic powers. Reed is able to stretch like rubber; Sue can turn invisible and create force fields, especially when angered; Johnny can produce fire at supernova temperatures, and is able to fly; and Ben transformed into "The Thing", a large, rock-like creature with super strength. Reed, Sue and Ben see them as a curse and Reed and Sue work on a healing chamber while the four room in Reed's high tech Baxter Building loft-turned-laboratory. Only Johnny seems to embrace his powers, which are pyrokinetic in nature, and clashes with Ben, who evidently drew the shortest straw. His disfigurement causes his fiancee to leave him which makes Reed vow to help Ben devolve to his human state, but he later gains another girlfriend in the blind woman Alicia Masters, who recognises his desirability beneath his rocky body.
While Ben broods about his situation on the Brooklyn Bridge, he stops a man about to commit suicide by jumping off. However, Ben's appearance so frightens the would-be jumper that he falls into the bridge's traffic, forcing Ben to jump down to save him by forcefully stopping a truck, inadvertently causing a chain reaction pile up on the bridge. Just as Ben's compatriots looking for him arrive at the bridge, the accident soon escalates as a fire breaks out in the wrecks while an arriving fire truck crashes and almost falls off the bridge, forcing the four to use their powers to prevent disaster. They are successful and the media throngs them and immediately uses Johnny's impromptu group name for themselves, The Fantastic Four. In a similar manner, Johnny later chooses their codenames for them, including the demeaning "Thing" moniker which annoys Ben to no end.
Doom's body is turning into organic metal capable of manipulating energy. After killing one of the board of directors of his company that had turned on him and his physician with his burgeoning energies, he sees the opportunity to finish off his rival Reed once and for all, blaming him for the recent failure of his company. He tricks Ben into turning on his friends, thinking that they were not working on a cure with due diligence. However, the machine is ready but needs more power. Doom provides the extra power and tricks Ben into using it and becoming normal again, while Doom's own powers increase exponentially. Doom immediately attacks Ben and then renders Reed unconscious and takes him prisoner. After freezing him to prevent him using his powers of distention, Doom fires a heat-seeker missile at Richard's apartment in the Baxter building intending to kill Johnny. Johnny uses his powers to fly away and leads the missile to open water where he ignites a garbage scow to lure the missile away from himself. Susan realizes where Reed is and confronts Doom while Ben decides that he must become The Thing again to battle his new enemy.
Doom and Ben fight until the battle spills onto the street below. The rest of the team joins Ben, sporting their specialised suits made of Unstable Molecules provided by Doom in the original space flight. Together under Reed's direction, the Fantastic Four vanquish their arch enemy with a coordinated attack that seemingly leaves Doom as a statue of inert metal.
In the end, the foursome decide to embrace their roles as superheroes and officially organise as the Fantastic Four with Reed proposing to Sue, and her accepting while Ben, with the help of Alicia, comes to terms with his condition. However, Doom's associate is transporting his employer's supposed dead body back to his homeland of Latveria (the country he ruled in the comics, where he could establish a real power base if he fully revives). Before the movie ends, evidence that Doom is still alive and well is presented
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