Film Xmen Summary

X-Men (2000)
d. Bryan Singer, 104 minutes
Film Plot Summary
Before the credits, Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) narrated (in voice-over): "Mutation: it is the key to our evolution. It has enabled us to evolve from a single-celled organism into the dominant species on the planet. This process is slow, and normally taking thousands and thousands of years. But every few hundredmillennia, evolution leaps forward."
The film then opened in Poland, 1944, during German occupation when Jews were rounded up and sent to concentration camps. When a young German-Jewish boy was separated from his parents by a locked metal gate and restrained by guards, he reached out to them - exhibiting his powers of magnetic attraction as the gate bent, twisted, and opened toward him. [The boy'straumatic experience during the Holocaust led to his future as the character of Magneto.]
In another prologue scene set in modern times ("in the not too distant future") in Meridian, Mississippi, 17 year-old teen Marie D'Ancanto (Anna Paquin) flirtatiously kissed her boyfriend David (Shawn Roberts) - and accidentally put him into a coma (for three weeks) when she absorbed his life energy with herlatent mutant power. Fearful and alienated, she ran away from home and fled to Canada.
The next scene shifted to the US Senate, debating a controversial bill, the Mutant Registration Act. Mutant rights-advocate Dr. Jean Grey (Famke Janssen) was testifying about how mutant traits manifested themselves at puberty during periods of high emotional stress. She argued against the bill. The legislationwas promoted by fanatical, prejudiced anti-mutant Senator Robert Kelly (Bruce Davison) - it required mutants (superior, genetically-gifted human beings with special powers due to DNA mutation and an X-factor) to register with the government (as a minority group), thereby revealing their identity and abilities.
Listening to Kelly debate the issue was his main opponent - telepathic, peace-loving,wheelchair-bound, bald X-Men founder Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart). Also present was the powerful leader of the militant, animalistic Brotherhood of Mutants - embittered Magneto (Ian McKellen), Xavier's ex-ally (and Holocaust survivor Eric Lensherr with a number burned into his arm) who could create magnetic fields and control metal.
In Northern Alberta, Canada, Marie had hitchhiked bytruck to Laughlin City, where truck stop drivers were watching a caged fight between short-tempered, sensory-keen Wolverine/Logan (Hugh Jackman) and a vanquished opponent. With his strong body frame supported by a surgically-grafted metal alloy (adamantium) skeleton, he remained "King of the Cage" - a way for him to make a meager living. At the bar where she was drinking water, the anxious Mariemet Wolverine (dog tags displayed his name) ordering a beer. [The TV broadcast announced an upcoming UN summit - the "largest single gathering of world leaders in history" to be held on Ellis Island.] Wolverine, considered a mutant "freak" when he scuffled with disgruntled and defeated fighter and revealed his long razor-sharp retractable metal claws, was ordered from the bar. He reluctantly letMarie join him, and she introduced herself as Rogue.
Suddenly, there was a vehicle crash, and Wolverine (not wearing a seat belt) was propelled through the windshield. Marie watched as he displayed fast regenerative healing of his serious injuries, but she was trapped in the burning trailer. Fearing an ambush with his keen senses, Wolverine was assaulted by one of Magneto's loyal supporters -ferocious, growling, feline-like, long-haired, clawed beast Sabretooth (Tyler Mane). Two other mutants materialized from nowhere and saved them with their powers from the exploding camper-trailer:
* laser-eyed, protective visor-wearing Cyclops/Scott Summers (James Marsden)
* weather-controlling Storm/Ororo Monroe (Halle Berry)
Wolverine and Rogue were brought to Xavier's X-mansion (in...