X-Men fans: You can stop shaking in your capes--this is one comic-book adaptation that gets it right. Movie audiences meet the X-Men when Wolverine (Jackman) and Rogue (Paquin)--societal outcasts with mutant powers--fall into a group of peace-loving superhumans who are battling people's prejudice and are at odds with a band of sneaky, equally mutated evils.
But it's
The Usual Suspects director
Bryan Singer who's the real superhero here, introducing 10 different characters (
most of which are interesting) and slyly maneuvering the saga's overwhelming amount of backstory without the movie becoming one massive comic-book lesson. Big blow-'em-up scenes are traded for story and character development--the reason fans have been drawn to the
X-Men series for years--which opens up more possible sequels than Wolverine has lives. Let this X-cellent franchise begin...
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