Life is generally going well for Jack Stanfield (Harrison Ford). He’s been running the computer system at his bank for a while now, and it looks like things are on track for the merger to go through, meaning that the small 26-bank operation is about to become part of a much larger company.
The only bad part about that is that it means that he won’t be a part of the day-to-day operations any longer. But it does mean that he can slow down and take some time with his family, and no one will be sad about that. It’s too bad that some other people have other plans for him – and his family – before this can all go through.
It seems that Bill Cox (Paul Bettany) has decided to make a play for some of the bank’s money, and he’s targeted Jack in order to get at it. After all, why go directly to the money, when you can go after the man who protects the money instead?
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Action on September 12th, 2006 by Chad Everett
I have to admit to not being a huge fan of The Fantastic Four growing up. Heck, I wasn’t a fan of any of the traditional superheroes, though I did like comics in general well enough. I just didn’t want to be reading the same ones as everyone else. So while I was acquainted with the basic premise, I didn’t have too much attachment to it. I completely understand that someone who was in love with the story may have ideas that are completely shattered if the movie wasn’t faithful to the original story.
When the four primary characters travel to the space station to research cosmic rays, they find that their calculations were off, and the rays are both more powerful than expected and closer. So they are bombarded by radiation that is unknown in origin and in power. This in turn gives them new powers, and they return to Earth with these powers, which transforms them into the superhero team that is known as The Fantastic Four.
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