Why It’s A Good Option For Superhero Fans: Other than how surprising it must be see a Marvel film on this DC-heavy list, it is surprising to me how the first cinematic adaptation of X-Men, a sci-fi civil rights allegory, does not receive much credit for going darker and grittier at a time when comic book movies still struggled to be taken seriously by the mainstream.
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An indestructible loner with retractable claws (Hugh Jackman) reluctantly joins a fight between mutants differing philosophies with after he is taken in by a telepath (Patrick Stewart) at his school for children with similarly incredible gifts.