Released just over twelve years ago, X-Men, while not the
first foray into film by Marvel, can be considered the flagship of its
rise to power in today’s superhero market. I couldn’t let the month of superhero films pass without including X-Men, and what better day to induct it into the vault than on the day Anna Paquin, a.k.a. Rogue, turns thirty.
Marie (Anna Paquin) from Mississippi, learns she’s a mutant when she nearly kills her beau with a kiss. Frightened of her abilities, and by the fear-mongering of Senator Kelly (Bruce Davison) and his Mutant Registration Act, she runs away to the far reaches of Canada where she, now going by Rogue, meets the furry and surly mutant, Wolverine (Hugh Jackman). The two begin to bond just as they’re attacked by Sabretooth (Tyler Mane) from the Brotherhood of Mutants. Sent by their leader, Magneto (Ian McKellan), Sabretooth is stopped by Storm (Halle Berry) and Cyclops (James Marsden) and the two bring Rogue and Wolverine to the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters to meet Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart). Once friends, Xavier knows Magneto believes the Senator’s Act as a declaration of war between humans and mutants. For the sake of all beings, Xavier must discover why a Southern lass and an adamantium-laced ass are so important to Magneto’s plans.
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