2000 · superhero · action · sci-fi
X-Men
Directed by Bryan Singer1h 44m2000
Two mutants, Rogue and Wolverine, come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team, the X-Men, must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers.
Our read: X-Men (2000) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded superhero · action · sci-fi entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured superhero / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- kinetic
- intense
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