X-Men

Rating: 9/10 (22 July 2019)

The original X-Men date to 1960s American comic books and were created by the recently deceased Stan Lee along with Jack Kirby. The line-up here is somewhat different but will be more familiar to the younger generation, who will probably miss the joke about yellow spandex.
As usual with films of this nature, the plot is both predictable and fairly irrelevant: a supervillain and his henchmen are Hell-bent on either world domination or destruction on a massive scale, and the good guys are here to see this doesn't happen.
With this film also it is probably best not to read too much into the origins of the characters and any political allusions, ie about people being alienated, hated or even murdered because they look different or are different.
Where "X-Men" scores is of course with special effects, and it does so grandiosly, unless of course they really did destroy the Statue Of Liberty in the climatic finale?