- Film Review
- Reviewed By Andrew Collins
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3 out of 5
Directed and co-written by Bryan Singer, this was the darkest superhero movie since Batman and featured the coolest special effects this side of The Matrix. Set in the not-too-distant future, the film follows the power struggle between two factions of a new breed of humans with assorted strange powers - the good led by disabled professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) and the bad led by Magneto (Ian McKellen). The Marvel Comics characters - including metal-boned Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), climate controller Storm (Halle Berry) and telekinetic Dr Jean Grey (Famke Janssen) - are well realised, and Singer mixes the classic values of good storytelling with liberal amounts of digital magic. On the down side, this plays a little too much like the beginning of a franchise and - outside of the theatrically trained Stewart and McKellen - star quality is in rather short supply.
Plot Summary
Fantasy action adventure based on the Marvel Comics series, starring Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen and Famke Janssen. In a world where humans live alongside mutants with extraordinary powers, there are some that see conflict between the two groups as inevitable. But Professor Charles Xavier and his team of X-Men are determined to stop those hellbent on confrontation.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Logan / Wolverine
- Hugh Jackman
- Professor Charles Xavier / Professor X
- Patrick Stewart
- Erik Magnus Lehnsherr / Magneto
- Ian McKellen
- Jean Grey
- Famke Janssen
- Scott Summers / Cyclops
- James Marsden
- Ororo Munroe / Storm
- Halle Berry
- Marie / Rogue
- Anna Paquin
- Sabretooth
- Tyler Mane
- Toad
- Ray Park
- Mystique
- Rebecca Romijn-Stamos
- Senator Robert Frank Kelly
- Bruce Davison
- Bobby Drake / Iceman
- Shawn Ashmore
Crew
- Director
- Bryan Singer
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