A lot of special effects, but no substance

Rating: 2/10 (5 August 2005)

The characters in the movie are very well made, but the plot has a ton of holes and makes no sense once you begin to think about it. First of all, if the scientist group has to go into space to see this very special "unique" cosmic storm, how the hell is there a reproduction in Mr. Fantastic's apartment building? Why even bother going to space? And then, how does Dr. Doom's company go broke from them not getting the results in space?! It was an empire that went broke from what?! All the machinery they already had, so it wasn't that big an investment... Couldn't they have manufactured another "cosmic storm" in their backyard, like Mr. Fantastic did? Then, Dr. Doom says he needed to get rid of the Thing, implying the Thing is too powerful and Dr. Doom can't handle him. So he tricks him into becoming normal again by going into the "reverse cosmic storm" (ridiculous). Anyways, the Thing changes back, and then Dr. Doom is about to kill the Thing by stabbing him with a metal pole? Why go through the whole hassle of trying to make the Thing human again? ABSURD! And the Thing is able to program the machine from "reverse" to "normal" cosmic storm??????? THIS MOVIE BLOWS!