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» Plot - Spoiler warning: Plot and ending details followThanks to wikipedia.org for the informationMutants (Homo sapiens superior) are the next evolutionary step in the chain of humanity. Some children are born with an X-Factor (a unique genetic mutation). These usually manifest themselves at puberty and grant individuals special powers. These mutants are almost universally feared and loathed by rest of mankind. Professor Charles Xavier (the world's most powerful telepath) takes gifted individuals and teaches them to control their powers for the good of mankind in his school for gifted youngsters. Opposition to them includes United States Senator Robert Kelly (Bruce Davison), a McCarthyesque politician trying to pass legislation crafted to expose the dangers of mutants, and Erik Lehnsherr (also known as Magneto), a mutant who blames humanity for the death of his family at the hands of the Nazis. Though they are formerly friends, Lehnsherr and Professor Xavier have different aims. Xavier is trying to convince humanity to accept mutants and put an end to prejudice against his kind. Lehnsherr, believing that homo sapiens and homo sapiens superior can never coexist peacefully, aims to teach humanity that mutants are the heirs to the future. Toward this end, Magneto builds and tests a machine that develops mutations in "normal" humans. Marie, a teenage girl, almost kills her boyfriend when her life-draining powers emerge. She runs away to northern Alberta, taking the alias Rogue, and meets mysterious brawler Logan / Wolverine, who makes a living out of cagefighting. When the two drive away in Logan's trailer, they are ambushed by Sabretooth, but saved by Storm and Cyclops and taken to the Xavier Institute. There, Wolverine and Rogue are introduced to a team of mutant superheroes known as X-Men.. Meanwhile, Senator Kelly is abducted by Mystique and Toad. His true captor is revealed to be Magneto, who uses a machine on Kelly and turns him into an adaptive mutant able to polymerize his body. Kelly escapes imprisonment in Magneto's stronghold by squeezing himself through the bars of his cell and washes up on a beach. Rogue sneaks into Logan's bedroom at the Xavier Institute one night, prompted by the noises he makes while having nightmares about the implanting of his adamantium skeleton. Waking up in a blind rage, he accidentally impales Marie on his claws. She touches him, using her power to imprint his healing ability and save herself. The strain of the experience causes Logan to have a seizure. Mystique, posing as Iceman, a fellow mutant, infiltrates the Institute. She poisons Xavier's Cerebro machine and tricks Rogue into thinking that Xavier is angry at her, causing her to run away. Logan goes after her and catches her train, but then Magneto appears, easily repelling Logan's defense (his adamantium skeleton makes him helpless against Magneto) and abducts Marie. The other X-Men and the Brotherhood battle briefly; Cyclops is incapacitated when his battle visor is snatched by Toad's tongue, Sabertooth strangles Storm, who retaliates with a lightning blast but may still be unconscious from the strain, and Xavier and Magneto engage in a battle of wills where the Professor uses his telepathy to control Sabretooth and Toad and stop Magneto from controlling the guns the police have brought to the scene. (Magneto seizes them all & points them at their owners.) Despite the valiant efforts of Xavier's team, the villains escape. Kelly, slowly dying from this unnatural mutation, brings himself to the Xavier Institute (instead of a hospital because he fears he may be shunned as a mutant) and tells Xavier of Magneto's machine before dying. The X-Men find out that Magneto wants to transfer his power to Rogue (using her power as an amplifying force) and place her in his mutation machine. A UN summit is taking place in the nearby Ellis Island, and by turning the world's leaders into mutants, Lehnsherr reckons to solve the mutant problems by force. The operation will result in Rogue's death. Xavier uses the tampered Cerebro to locate Rogue and is rendered comatose. Jean Grey restores Cerebro and uses it herself, nearly killing herself in the process, but finding out that Rogue is imprisoned in the flame of the Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island. They arrive at the scene in a specialized jet and soon find themselves battling the Brotherhood again. After battling and defeating both Toad and Mystique, the X-Men locate Rogue and the mutation device at the top of the Statue of Liberty. They are promptly captured by Magneto. Wolverine frees himself, engages in a lengthy battle with Sabretooth and frees his partners. All four work together to free Rogue; Logan is levitated to the mutation device by Storm and Jean Grey, allowing him to provide Cyclops an opportunity to destroy it with an optic blast. Rogue is near death when Logan saves her by touching her, thus using her life-draining powers to transfer his healing powers to her. Professor Xavier recovers from his coma. Senator Kelly reappears on the news as a more mutant-friendly politician. Careful scrutiny of the news footage by Xavier and the X-Men reveal that Kelly is actually Mystique in disguise. Wolverine journeys to Canada, to find answers to his origins, but promises to return. The film ends with Xavier playing chess with Magneto in a completely plastic jail cell. Magneto tells his old friend that he will continue fighting "by any means necessary", while Xavier replies he'll always be ready to meet the threats. » DVD InformationAmazon.co.uk Review Amazon.co.uk Review
Although the superhero comic book has been a duopoly since the early 1960s, only DC's flagship characters, Superman and Batman (who originated in the late 1930s) have established themselves as big-screen franchises. Until now--this is the first runaway hit film version of the alternative superhero X-Men universe created for Marvel Comics by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and others. It's a rare comic-book movie that doesn't fall over its cape introducing all the characters, and this is the exception. X-Men drops us into a world that is closer to our own than Batman's Gotham City, but it's still home to super-powered goodies and baddies. Opening in high seriousness with paranormal activity in a WW2 concentration camp and a senatorial inquiry into the growing "mutant problem", Bryan Singer's film sets up a complex background with economy and establishes vivid, strange characters well before we get to the fun. There's Halle Berry flying and summoning snowstorms, James Marsden zapping people with his "optic beams", Rebecca Romijn-Stamos shape-shifting her blue naked form, and Ray Park lashing out with his Toad-tongue. The big conflict is between Patrick Stewart's Professor X and Ian McKellen's Magneto, super-powerful mutants who disagree about their relationship with ordinary humans, but the characters we're meant to identify with are Hugh Jackman's Wolverine (who has retractable claws and amnesia), and Anna Paquin's Rogue (who sucks the life and superpowers out of anyone she touches). The plot has to do with a big gizmo that will wreak havoc at a gathering of world leaders, but the film is more interested in setting up a tangle of bizarre relationships between even more bizarre people, with solid pros such as Stewart and McKellen relishing their sly dialogue and the newcomers strutting their stuff in cool leather outfits. There are in-jokes enough to keep comics' fans engaged, but it feels more like a science fiction movie than a superhero picture. --Kim NewmanDVD Description Born into a world filled with prejudice are children who possess extraordinary and dangerous powers - the result of unique genetic mutations. Cyclops unleashes bolts of energy from his eyes. Storm can manipulate the weather at will. Rogue absorbs the life force of anyone she touches. But, under the tutelage of Professor Xavier (Patrick Stewart), these and other outcasts learn to harness their powers for the good of mankind. Now they must protect those who fear them as the nefarious Magneto (Ian McKellen), who believes humans and mutants can never co-exist, unveils his sinister plan for the future... Dr Jean Grey (Famke Janssen, Goldeneye) reaches extraordinary new levels using her powers of telepathy alongside weather-manipulator Storm (Academy Award winner Halle Berry, Monster’s Ball), life-force zapper Rogue (Anna Pacquin, Buffalo Soldiers), laser beam Cyclops (James Marsden, Disturbing Behaviour) and the cool Ice-Man (Shawn Ashmore). United with further newcomers including the iron claw-clad Lady Deathstrike (Kelly Hu, The Scorpion King) and fingertip firestarter Pyro (Aaron Stanford), X-Men 2 contains the most spectacular array of super-hero powers you have ever seen! [ Back ] |
X-Men is an action movie, first released in Australia on 13 July 2000. The film features a group of comic book superheroes called the X-Men. It formed a major part of the current revival in comic-book adaptation movies.