I like it, of course. It has very cool scene, great actors that I like like Stewart and McKellen, and good characters, story and effects. I could have done without Logan hitting on Jean, but what do you know, they can’t resist (or maybe was that in the comics? I never heard of it but I’m not an expert).
It starts introducing some of the characters and how they discovered their powers. Eric was a jewish child in Polonia and when they took away his parents he cried and tried to resist and reach them, and the iron gate started moving towards his outstretched arms, and it took like five men to keep him and it still was enough until one of them knocked him out hitting him on the head. A girl, Marie, (Anna Paquin) kisses her boyfriend in her room and he almost dies because she took his life energy. She’s so shocked and terrorized that she runs away from home.
At the Congress, Jean Grey (Famke Janssen) is pro-mutants and against the law that would force them all to get registered, listing their true identities and their powers, while senator Kelly (Bruce Davison) is strongly for it, making a speech that sounds rather racist.. to Eric too, who now calls himself Magneto (Ian McKellen) and says that he’s heard these things before, while his old friend professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) tells him not to lose faith in humanity.
Marie now calls herself Rogue, and she comes to a place where Logan/Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) fights for money (did anybody go : ‘does he have his adamantium already? I mean, come on, he went clang!)
She hides in his truck but he finds her, and lets her seat with him. They are attacked by Sabretooth (Tyler Mane) but Cyclope (James Marsden) and Storm (Halle Berry) save them and take them to New York, to Xavier’s school for gifted youngsters. Mystique (Rebecca Romijn) and Toad (Ray Park) abduct senator Kelly and bring him to Magneto, who transforms him into a mutant using a machine that drains his energy. Kelly realizes he can pass through the iron bars now and escapes from his prison and swims until he reaches a beach - Stan Lee is one of the people looking at him on that beach. He’s taken to the school, where later he’ll die turning into water.
At the school, they are healed and well treated, and Rogue finally feels like she has a place to stay, but one night Logan has nightmares and she goes into his room without touching him, but he wakes up suddenly and instinctively draws his hand’s blades and injures her, so she touches him to use his regenerative powers to cure herself, but then people come into the room and see that, and say that it is forbidden to use one’s power against each other… but it’s not what she was doing!!
Mystique, disguised as her friend Bobby the iceman, tells her that everybody’s terrified of her and that Xavier is furious with her for what she did, and tells her to go away! That was a nasty thing to do!
She runs away but Xavier finds her using his Cerebro machine. Logan takes a bike and goes to find her, as well as Cyclope and Storm who are attacked by Sabretooth and Toad, and I like the scene when Storm’s eyes turn white when she used her power.
Logan is talking to Rogue, convincing her to go back to the school, when Magneto comes in and tells him that he’s not interested in him at all, and Logan understands he wants Rogue, and takes her with him. He wants her to absorb his power and then activate the machine to turn a lot of people into mutants (only those politicians together or the whole city? boh).
Of course they stop him and rescue Rogue at the last second, but the machine leaves her with a white lock of hair.
At the end, Magneto is put in a special plastic prison, where Xavier meets him to play chess and talk, and Mystique disguised as Senator Kelly speaks against the law on mutants.
Coolest scenes were: Storm’s powers against Sabretooth, Magneto using his power to turn every policeman’s weapon against them and Xavier using his mind-power to control Sabretooth, and the school with all those kids finally leaving in peace like normal kids should, and probably something else that don’t come to mind right now.
There was nothing under the credits, they had not yet started to put scene about future marvel movies, apparently.
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