Film Summary DXXIV (4D Man)

So you have an obsessive scientist whose adamant on combining one element with another. Or more correctly he wants to force one elements to coexist inside or with another.
Why he wants to do this whenever certain of. I guess maybe for the publicity the money or possibly just so he doesn't have to buy superglue anymore.
It's hard to say.

But it doesn't matter because everything goes wrong.  He was working in a laboratory in the dead of night; secretly I might add, because he had to avoid security.
Anyways his experiment goes horribly awry and he ends up Burning Down the entire building.
He gets off of a slap on the wrist though, as he pretty much just leaves the company and heads off to a different laboratory where his brother happens to be working.
Now the guys Brothers (Scott) is trying to create some sort of super adhesive metal that has the property and weights of certain Plastics but is 20 times more powerful than steel.
Essentially it's whatever that metal was that Captain America had on his silly little round sealed.

So the two brothers get talking about their experiments. And both of them could care less about the others work.
They're both semi hyper obsessed with their own activities and they both fancy the same lab assistant. She was supposed to marry the guy Scott, but now she's looking at the other brother because of reasons.
They never really specify why these two are going to have a relationship, but I guess we're just supposed to go along with it. It doesn't matter. The film's going to drop all of this like a rock in about 20 minutes anyways.
The first half of this movie is almost dropped like a rock.

At some point Scott gets hold of his brothers machine that helps him to force elements inside of other elements and accidentally gets his hand stuck inside a piece of metal.
But then he's informed by his brother later on that the machine never properly worked and that his brother was using his mind to do this.
Which for some reason makes his brother a bit loopy in the head.
He just decides to go off and start phasing through things for the fun of it.
First he steals and apple, then debates a piece of jewelry, before steal a bunch of money (Despite the fact that he could acquire anything he wants by just taking it. I guess it's just the thrill of stealing at this point.)
But eventually he goes a little bit more nutty and he discovers that he's ageing do to the process of bodily manipulation through solid items.
I guess it uses up a lot of energy and therefore is destroying the physical form.
But luckily for him he can just touch somebody else when he's phasing through things and acquire all of their life Essences.
This leads him on a killing spree which inevitably gets him killed by a gunshot wound and an overexertion of his own power.

There are a lot of other small details in the film but none of it's worth talking about. Because whatever energy this movie had was kind of lost after the first half an hour. It's like they wanted to make a weird little romance story involving a love triangle between our three leads, but then at some point somebody just said; ''To hell with it. Let's just have a monster movie where a dude kills people by stealing their literal age''.

Also I have no proof of this but I do wonder if Ang Lee watch this movie to get to get inspiration for his Hulk film. Because the whole phasing in and out of physical materials is something that becomes kind of vital in that movie.