A great movie!

Rating: 10/10 (6 August 2009)

In the future, a race of humanoids called Mutants born with unique powers or looks when reached adulthood but the human race misunderstands them and mistreats them badly. So a good and powerful mutant named Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) who has telepathic/telekinetic abilities has formed a school for the gifted or mutants to control their powers and help mankind however there are some terrorist mutants who are hellbent on destroying the human race such as Magneto (Ian Mckellen) who thinks mankind would never accept mutants as he leads some mutants to kill off humans. A runaway mutant girl with the power to temporarily absorb people's energies and mutants's powers named Rogue (Anna Paquin) meets up with a Canadian mutant named Logan a.k.a. Wolverine (Huge Jackman) who has an adamantium skeleton that is unbreakable and has powerful claws including the power to self-heal and senses like an animal. Of course they get attacked by a vicious mutant brute named Sabretooth (Taylor Mane) but gets saved by three mutants named Storm (Halle Berry) who has the power to control elements and weather, Cyclops (James Marsden) who has lazer eyesight he can control and of course Jean Grey (Famnke Janssen) who has powers similar to Professor X only not as strong rescue the two mutants and takes them both to the mansion of the professor. The two new mutants join the secret team of mutant heroes called "X-Men" who are sworn to protect all humanity from the bad mutants as Magneto with shape-shifting deadly beauty Mystique (Rebecca Romijin-Stamos), Sabretooth and Toad (Ray Park) plans on mutating the entire human race.
An excellent adaptation of the ever popular Marvel comic books created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee from the 60's to now that made Marvel comic book movies big again back in 2000 starting with 1998's excellent "Blade" movie. Bryan Singer of "The Usual Suspects" and "Apt Pupil" fame is a big fan of the comics/animated series from the 90's as he wanted to bring the magic of the comics on the screen yet he succeeds, he brings the huge metaphor on discrimination of a different minority group that was presented in the comics and show. The film took years of development hell with Richard Donner originally gonna direct it but instead now serves as executive producer of the saga and was originally gonna be produced by James Cameron and Carolco Pictures all had original rights before Fox which i think is the right decision to have for a studio. The acting is excellent including some of the action sequences and character development including an allegory of trying to accept a person who is different then us.
A must see Sci-fi action movie with it's even better sequel.