And so on. They come under Xavier's protection, but Rogue is kidnapped by Magneto as part of his dire plan to destroy all the world's leaders. Here's where things begin to go awry. He kills scene after scene, sequence after sequence, by insisting on constant camera movement.
Actors go leaping and flying around the sets, but so does the camera.
We're never sure if the mayhem is caused by the characters or the director. And there are very few throwaway lines, lines that might lighten the tone, if only for a moment. Singer just hammers everything to death. McKellan and Stewart are old pros, of course, with the most mellifluous and resonant voices in film today, and we hope that their few meetings will strike sparks. But their dialogue is flatly written and the confrontations are poorly staged, so we lose even the power they might have given the film.