FilmSkool — a free film school
X-Men
Two mutants, Rogue and Wolverine, come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team, the X-Men, must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers.
2000 · Directed by Bryan Singer · 104 min · Adventure · Action · Science Fiction · Screenplay in the scene database · 12 frames
Tagline
Trust a few. Fear the rest.
Plot
In 1944 Nazi-occupied Poland, 14-year-old Erik Lehnsherr is separated from his parents upon entering the Auschwitz concentration camp. While attempting to reach them, he causes a set of metal gates to bend toward him because of his mutant ability to generate magnetic fields. Still, he is knocked unconscious by guards.
In 2000, U.S. Senator Robert Kelly attempts to pass a "Mutant Registration Act" in Congress, which would force mutants to reveal their identities and abilities. The telepathic mutant Charles Xavier is concerned about how Lehnsherr, who now goes by the name "Magneto", will respond to the Registration Act.
In Meridian, Mississippi, 17-year-old Marie accidentally puts her boyfriend into a coma after kissing him, because of her mutant ability to absorb the life force and powers of others. Adopting the name "Rogue", she flees to Alberta, where she meets Logan, also known as "Wolverine", a mutant with superhuman healing abilities and metal claws that protrude from between his knuckles. Sabretooth, a member of Magneto's Brotherhood of Mutants, attacks them on the road, but two members of Xavier's X-Men, Cyclops and Storm, save them. Logan and Rogue are brought to Xavier's school for mutants in New York state. Believing that Magneto is interested in capturing Logan, Xavier asks him to stay while he investigates the matter. Meanwhile, Rogue enrolls in the school and develops a crush on the cryokinetic mutant Bobby Drake.
Plot summary from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
Crew
- Screenplay: David Hayter
- Cinematography: Newton Thomas Sigel
- Edited by: Steven Rosenblum, Kevin Stitt, John Wright
- Music: Michael Kamen
- Production design: John Myhre
- Produced by: Ralph Winter, Lauren Shuler Donner
Cast
- Hugh Jackman as Logan / Wolverine
- Patrick Stewart as Xavier
- Ian McKellen as Magneto
- Famke Janssen as Jean Grey
- James Marsden as Cyclops
- Halle Berry as Storm
- Anna Paquin as Rogue
- Tyler Mane as Sabretooth
- Ray Park as Toad
- Rebecca Romijn as Mystique
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: The Donners' Company, Bad Hat Harry Productions, 20th Century Fox, Marvel Entertainment Group
- Budget: $75,000,000
- Box office: $296,339,527
- Themes: superhero, mutant, based on comic, superhuman, school, super power, discrimination
Own the film
FilmSkool earns a small commission from qualifying Amazon purchases, at no cost to you.
More by Bryan Singer
On this film
This is the plain index, shown because JavaScript is off. Every lesson here is a free video published by the channel credited on it and plays through that channel's own embed — FilmSkool hosts nothing.