X-Men Collection (X-Men / X2 - X-Men United)

X-Men Collection (X-Men / X2 - X-Men United)
by Bryan Singer

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DVD Review: X Marks The Spot
Summary: 5 Stars

The first X-men movie released in 2000 is a fabulous first outing with excellent directing from Brian Singer. The movie's theme is of the clashing of two extreme opposite prejudices. The first is of rising anti-mutant hysteria sweeping the planet and skyrocketing support for mutant registration acts headed by Senator Robert Kelly. On the other extreme, anti-human sentiment is running rampant in parts of the mutant world and the head of the extremist movement of the mutant society is headed by the magnificent villain Magneto who aims to destroy humanity and leave the world in control of mutants. Between these extremes though is a mutant organization called the X-Men headed by Professor Charles Xavier whose goal is to fight justice and be able to bridge the widening gap and bring peace between the two increasingly hostile society. Magneto plans to wipe out humanity in NYC by means of a special machine that draws it's energy from a victim and releases a force field that turns human body cells into water molecules. This one has it's share of flaws. Rogue and Storm are the main problems, being just mere background characters with only a small amount of the awesome charisma of the comic book counterparts. Wolverine though was awesome and Hugh Jackman was perfect for the role of playing this awesome character. The best of the acting performances though were Patrick Stewert as Charles Xavier and Ian McKellen as Magneto. These two actors really brought these friends yet enemies at the same time characters to life better than any other comic movie I've seen in many years. Fabulous first movie! If course there's also the now fabled paint costume of the morphing mutant Mystique played by Rebecca Romijn Stamos. Interesting camera angles I must say.

The second X-Men movie though blows the first one right into orbit around the Earth. This dynamite sequel takes what was great about the first one and builds upon the greatness of that one and expands the storyline and scope of the X-Men universe. In this one, after the events of the first one, the anti-mutant organizations now decide to take even greater measures against the 'threat' and a vicious and dangerous rogue military general named William Stryker(Brian Cox) plans a massive strike against mutants. He also uses a special drug taht forces his subjects to tell what he or she knows about and uses it on Magneto. Strykers forces launch an assault on X-Men's home school for the Gifted. Meanwhile Magneto escapes from his plastic prison. Now with a common enemy, the X-Men and their archenemy Magneto's mutant organizaiton called the brotherhood of Mutants stop battling each other and join forces to defeat Stryker and stop his evil anti-mutant genocidal plans. New characters come into the picture such as Nightcrawler and Pyro and the action scenes are awesome. To put it this way "X-Men United" is as opposite to a sequel slump as you can almost go.

This box set covers the first two movies and they are both great but the second one is especially awesome and what's really pwerful about both of these movies is that they really bring close to home the possibilites of what discrimination and racial intolerance leads to if left undealt with. In many ways, our world is faced with these things and these movies really shed light on these issues of intolerance and persecution yet they manage to be highly entertaining. Get them today. I look forward to X3 when it comes out around in 2006!