Cast: Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Patrick Stewart, James Marsden, Rebecca Romijn, Famke Janssen
I’m not much of an action movie fan until the screenplay is backed by a strong storyline. Hey wait!! I think I’ve already told you that. Anyways, so the general kind of movies I watch don’t include many Rocky or Rambo or even Crouchin Tiger Hidden Dragon kinda movies. You get the idea right??
I hadn’t even watched the first 3 movies of the X-Men series when they were released and became a rage among audiences worldwide. It was only after I watched X-Men Origins: Wolverine that I felt very interested in knowing what happened next.
I won’t be describing the storyline in detail about the series here as I usually do in case of my favorite movies, but yes I’d like to share the parts that I found most gripping. The visual effects, sci-fi action and everything is great and all that, but what really interested me was the way each character had its own different and equally strong backdrop. Right from Storm, to Professor Jean to Professor Xavier to Wolverine, every person, or ‘mutant’, if I may say so, had a clearly visible individual mind-set and different reason for doing what he/she did or was doing.
They had their differences in opinion but they were united by the one common purpose of their lives, trying to create the same respect, same acceptance and same living standard for mutants as the world had for humans.
The only thing they wanted to establish was that being a mutant is not a disease which can be cured. If a child is born with some genetic transformation which gives it extra-ordinary powers, it is refered to as a mutant. Thats all. But since humanity considered them as “abnormal” or “inhuman”, there arose a lot of conflicts and the X-Men were brought together to fight against such conflicts and protect the right of mutants to live like everyone else.
The costumes, the make-up, the screenplay – everything was perfect. Above all, the chemistry between the central characters was beautifully potrayed. I mean everything about the theme and the story was so real that I got completely involved in it. It seemed so natural to think that there actually are people in this world who are born with genetic defects. They are looked upon as mentally unstable or abnormal, when in reality, it none of their fault that they are this way. Thats the kind of life God chose for them, and there undoubtedly is something amazing about each one of them. More amazing than the normal people. Only in the movie, that something special was potrayed as some kind of power.
I was compelled to watch the entire X-Men series after watching the X-Men Origins since I found out the amazing start where it all began. And each movie in the four movie series (so far) has been wonderfully exciting to watch. Spent the entire of my last weekend watching the complete series in one go!! And to tell you the truth, I can watch it again..