Big-Screen Film Variation

Rating: Null/10 (16 May 2006)

X-MEN **** Based on the comic book series that began in the 1960s, this big-screen adaptation is more of a variation on a theme than an outright recreation. It entails the mutant race who are rejected and persecuted by society because of their abnormality. The second contending rift exists between the mutants trying to help the human race and those striving to extinguish them. The story begins with a young woman (Anna Paquin) trying to find her place in society upon discovering her internal mutanic structure. She is taken in by the good guys, and in the climactic point the opposing force wants her for their own purposes. I took 'X-Men' as a simple entertainment of cool hand-on-hand combat and impressive special effects and really enjoyed it.