X Men

X Men 2000

• Director: Bryan Singer
• Based on book: no
• Cast: Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Halle Berry, Famke Jansson, James Marsden, Anna Paquin, Tyler Mane, Ray Park, Bruce Davison
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Hugh Jackman – Les Misérables, Australia, The Fountain, Kate & Leopold, X Men First Class etc
• Ian McKellan – Vicious, X Men First Class, the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings films, Richard III, Six Degrees of Separation, Cold Comfort Farm, The Ballad of Little Jo, Macbeth
• Patrick Stewart – The Hollow Crown Richard II, Hamlet, Extras, X Men First Class, Star Trek (one of them, I don’t remember which), Excalibur, Hamlet, I Claudius
• Halle Berry – Cloud Atlas, Things We Lost in the Fire, Monster’s Ball, X Men First Class, Bulworth, Jungle Fever
• Femke Jansson – X Men Days of Future Past, The Dead Girl
• James Marsden - X Men Days of Future Past, The Butler
• Anna Paquin - X Men Days of Future Past, The Squid and the Whale, Almost Famous, Amistad, The Piano
• Why? Slightly addicted to the series
• Seen: Once before. Now 4 October 2019      

       We’ve just watched the three prequels. I liked them a lot. Hal less so, but he’s bearing with me.

       This starts with the Auschwitz scene and Magneto as a boy displaying his powers for the first time. Then it jumps to now-ish. Two teenagers in the American South. The girl Marie (Paquin) is a mutant calling herself Rogue.

       Charles (Stewart) and Eric (McKellen) encounter one another at a hearing about what to do about the mutants. Charles still believes in humans. Eric still doesn’t. ‘Still’ because we’ve seen the prequels, otherwise it would be new to us.

       Rogue heads up to Alaska and encounters Wolverine (Jackman). They run into trouble.

       There are a lot of mutants.

       The story is that Eric leads the bad mutants and Charles leads the good mutants and that’s all you need to know really.

       As much as I love Stewart and McKellen I think they’re miscast here. McKellen should be Charles and Stewart should be Eric. And I do miss McAvoy.

       It’s good but I like the prequels better

      

3 * of 5 (Hal agrees, he likes this better than the prequels).