X-Men (2000)

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Rating: PG-13
Release Date: Jul 14, 2000
Running Time: 104 mins. (V)
Country Of Origin: United States
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Adapted from the most popular Marvel comics of the 1990s, The X-Men are a group of genetic mutants with amazing abilities, brought together and trained by the world's most powerful telepath, Professor Charles Xavier to help fight for his dream - a world where the mutant minority and human majority can live together in harmony - to be judged not by the fancy powers they possess, but by the content of their character. However, the Mutant Master of Magnetism, Magneto, scarred by the human brutality he's experienced, has come to believe the mutant race is superior to humanity, and should rule over them as their betters, and he's amassed a brotherhood of like-minded mutants to help achieve his goals by any means necessary. With anti-mutant sentiment prevailing at every turn, the X-Men strive to protect the very humans that fear and hate them.
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Logan/ Wolverine
Magneto
Jean Grey
Cyclops
Storm
Rogue
Sabretooth
Toad
Mystique
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You'd think being a superhero would be great. But not in a world that hates and fears those who are different.

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Critics have reserved the term "comic book-like" for the most juvenile and banal of films. That's all about to change. "X-Men" is the collision of two dueling ideologies. Professor X/Charles Francis Xavier (Patrick Stewart) is a mutant (one born with exceptional abilities) who trains other mutants to deal with their designer genes and protect humanity. Magneto/Erik Magnu Lehnsherr… Continued

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December 10, 2000
No summer-2000 epic has the geek posse hotter under its critical collar than X-Men. Reaction on the Web ranges from "It sizzles" to "It sucks" to "It's just OK." The movie itself, adapted from the Marvel Comics series by co-writer and director Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects), supports all three responses.

What sizzles? Start with Hugh Jackman as Logan, the X-Man known as Wolverine. The Australian actor has snagged the juiciest role in the $75 million epic as the mutant with the short temper… Continued