Freeing the others the group travel to Cairo with a Jet stored in the facility and dawn flight suits, determined to stop Apocalypse plans.
William Styker then arrives and captures Raven, Hank, Moira and Peter. Jean, Scott, and Kurt sneak aboard and free a experimented on Logan who proceeds to slaughter most of the soldiers before finally being calmed down and having Jean restore his memories before he finally escapes the facility. While Peter Maximoff is able to get everyone to safety Alex who was the closest to the blast range is killed.
Alex tries to stop them by firing a energy blast, but misses and ends up hitting the X-Jets fuselage which causes an explosion. In a desperate attempt to cut the connection Charles tells Alex to destroy Cerebro.Īpocalypse and his Horsemen then arrive and kidnap a unconscious Xavier. Apocalypse then proceeds to take control of Xavier through Cerebro to make all the Earths governments launch their nuclear missiles into space. Using Cerebro Xavier manages to locate Magneto and finds out he has joined Apocalypse and his Horsemen.
That same day, Raven returns to the mansion and brings along Nightcrawler whom she had rescued and tells Charles that Erik has resurfaced after his family was killed by police. The next day Charles and Alex travel to Washington, D.C., so that they can learn more about what happened from Moira who was also present in Cairo investigating a group of followers who believe in an ancient mutant of great powers. Later at night, Jean has a nightmare about the end of the world after calming her, Xavier and McCoy decide to investigate and learn that an earthquake occurred in Cairo, Egypt that coincided with Jean's nightmare. Sometime later, Alex Summers brought his younger brother Scott so he could receive help in controlling his powers. In 1983, 10 years after Wolverine altered the timeline, Charles Xavier and Hank McCoy reopened Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters where they took in many students including Jean Grey and Jubilee. She goes to kill Trask but Xavier convinces her not to. He proceeds to try to kill the president but Mystique manages to subdue him.
He puts metal inside Wolverine and sends him flying to the bottom of a river. He uses them to guard the area and fight off Beast and Wolverine. Beast, Wolverine, and Professor X return to America and find out Mystique is going to kill him during the unveiling of the Sentinels.Īrriving Charles stops her by paralyzing her, but Magneto appears and takes over the Sentinels. While they succeed, Magneto in an attempt to insure his race survival tries to kill her but Beast stops him allowing Mystique to escape. After doing so they race to Paris to stop Mystique from killing Trask. Logan convinces young Xavier and Beast to help him break out Magneto from his prison along with the help of Quicksilver. Some of the dialogue is a bit laughable - and Halle Berry, as the weather-controlling hero Storm, doesn't do much to help with that when she's on-screen - but the effects are top-notch, the script is smart, and the tone of the film is pitch-perfect, giving us characters with unreal abilities at conflict in a very real world.The X-Men shared the history of their counterpart up until 1973. It plumbs its source material for real relevance and deeper meaning while still delivering all the biff-bam-pow action a comic book fan could want - as well as serving as the launching pad that made Hugh Jackman a star with his work as the feral-but-stalwart Canadian mutant, Wolverine. A super-hero film with real ambition and true talent can be very rare in Hollywood X-Men is, alongside The Dark Knight and the first two Spider-Man films, one of the highlights in the modern exploration of the sub-genre.ĭirected by Bryan Singer ( The Usual Suspects, Apt Pupil), X-Men is an unerringly smart comic-book adaptation. McKellen and Stewart are perfectly cast, and the remainder of the actors (with the exception of the seemingly-reluctant Berry) are all excellent.
Launching a multi-film franchise, this is perhaps one of the best super-hero comic book adaptation, in part because it doesn't shy away from the big issues the comic explored, however clumsily.