A good faithful adaption of a comic book Classic

Rating: 8/10 (16 September 2010)

This film does a very good job of setting the scene it introduces mutants a sect of humanity hated and feared by the rest. we see rogue a young runaway who happens upon a another mutant a gruff unsociable cage fighter named Logan.A dude with amnesia and retractable metal claws. We meet senator Kelly a political opportunist using the "Mutant threat" to further his own career.He puts me in mind of McCarthy,with his belligerent and combative interviews in a senate committee of mutant affairs.He grandstands and scaremongers with the best of them.All the while pushing his Mutant control bill.A law that will force all mutants to register with the government. Meanwhile there's Erik Lensherr a survivor of the holocaust and mutant with extraordinary powers.Having seen man's ability to be inhumane first hand he believes mutants should strike first while humans are weak and divided on the issue. His old school friend takes the polar opposite view and teaches his students to learn to live with their powers for the benefit of all humans.Professor Charles Xavier and his students the X men soon come into conflict with Lensherr. The stage is set for a war of ideology based on racial grounds. Erik with every reason to hate humans launches his attack to preserve his kind.Xavier on the other hand has a more precarious moral position. He risks his X men's lives to defeat his own kind and defend the very humans that would love to get rid of them. A complex moral minefield and a great film
Shame then that the sequels were such utter dross
no wonder Bryan singer walked away