X-Men

Directed by Bryan Singer, and with screenplay by David Hayter (known as the voice of Solid Snake), X-Men is an under-budget film which retained a good reception to carry on that of Marvel’s comic books. The movie portrays the arrival of Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) and Rogue (Anna Paquin) to the X-men team.

The idea of X-Men is that the world is full of mutants – children with a special gift – which the rest of the world are scared of. As with most superhero comics/movies, there is always a villian; played by Ian McKellen, Magneto is a mutant controlling metal and electromagnetic fields; who shares different thoughts with Professor X (Patrick Stewart) on their mutant-human relationships. Some would say it’s similar of the Malcolm X and Martin Luther King campaigns.

Anyway, the action scenes within the movie are a little under-performed, where the heroes are knocked down, and are in states of trouble, but somehow recover and annihilate the villians; which is expected for die-hard X-Men comic book fans; but the movie as a whole is still a family friendly movie with some fairly well known faces.

 The story itself focuses on that of Wolverine most specifically, and how he is set to save the day against Magneto. The story also features him having feelings for other mutants – more or less to show that he isn’t a monster, and to prove Professor X’s theory right that all mutants aren’t bad; and that some are there to save the human race despite the fact that normal humans want the mutants brought to justice.

X-men is great to watch through the acceptable 104 minutes, and is even better to watch in series with the X-Men Quadrilogy. A great watch for super-hero fanatics.