When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men, led by Professor Charles Xavier, and the Brotherhood, a band of powerful mutants organized under Xavier's former ally, Magneto.
Director: Brett Ratner
Writers: Simon Kinberg, Zak Penn
Stars: Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry | See full cast and crew »
Storyline
When
a cure is created, which apparently can turn any mutant into a normal
human being, there is outrage amongst the mutant community. Whilst some
mutants do like the idea of a cure, including Rogue, many mutants find
that there shouldn't be a cure. Magneto, who still believes a war is
coming, recruits a large team of mutants to take down Warren Worthington
II and his cure. Might seem easy for the X-Men to stop, but Magneto has
a big advantage, which Wolverine doesn't have. Jean Grey has returned,
and joined with Magneto. The Phoenix has woken within her, which has the
ability to destroy anything in her way, even if that 'anything' is a
X-Men.
User Reviews
I
was able to catch a preview of this film on May 18. I am a huge X-Men
fan and was reading earlier buzz about this film's shortcomings from
other critics. I was very surprised at this film's quality. This film
was very good especially for a third installment. I would venture to say
this film was my favorite of the three, narrowly beating out X-Men
United. I felt there would be a lot of confusion in tying in Magneto and
Dark Phoenix but the story was very coherent. I also felt like Halle
did a little better in this installment, considering better powers and
better writing. The action scenes were great, especially in Jean's
house. I was pleased to see them stay faithful to certain scenes in the
Dark Phoenix Saga comic. The other "bit-part" mutants were not as
annoying as I'd anticipated, as some of them actually were very
impressive. I was very impressed with this film's "shockers" and
unpredictability. Some things I definitely did not see coming. While not
the perfect experience everyone hopes for, it was still well-made and
should satisfy the X-Men fan base. Good story, great fights, great
special effects, true to some of the comic stuff, great
unpredictability, annoying Pyro. 'Nuff said.
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