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X-Men
Bryan Singer
(2000)
104min
12A Certificate
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Review
Our Score
by
Andrew Collins
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 abilities - 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.
Summary
Super-powered outsiders Rogue and Wolverine find themselves at a school for mutants which is run by a benevolent psychic professor. While there, they agree to join others with similar gifts to take on a superhuman mutant terrorist faction intent on establishing dominance over mankind. Sci-fi comic-book adventure, starring Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Anna Paquin and Halle Berry.
Cast & Crew
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
Hot dog vendor
Stan Lee
Director
Bryan Singer
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Other Information
Language:
English
Colour
Theatrical distributor:
20th Century Fox
Guidance:
Violence, swearing.
Available on:
video, DVD and Blu-ray
Released on:
18 Aug 2000
Drama
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