Magneto (film)

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Character Film
X-Men X2 X-Men: The Last Stand X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Logan / Wolverine Hugh Jackman
Professor Charles Xavier Patrick Stewart
Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto Ian McKellen
Jean Grey / Phoenix Famke Janssen
Ororo Munroe / Storm Halle Berry
Raven Darkholme / Mystique Rebecca Romijn
Scott Summers / Cyclops James Marsden Tim Pocock
Marie / Rogue Anna Paquin
Bobby Drake / Iceman Shawn Ashmore
John Allerdyce / Pyro Alexander Burton Aaron Stanford
Kitty Pryde Sumela Kay Katie Stuart Ellen Page
Victor Creed / Sabretooth Tyler Mane Liev Schreiber
Senator Robert Kelly Bruce Davison Bruce Davison
William Stryker Brian Cox Danny Huston
Peter Rasputin / Colossus Daniel Cudmore
Dr. Henry "Hank" McCoy / Beast Steve Bacic Kelsey Grammer

Reception

Box office performance

Film Release date Box office revenue Box office ranking Reference
Worldwide United States United States Outside U.S. Worldwide All time U.S. All time worldwide
X-Men August 2000 July 14, 2000 $157,299,717 $138,950,336 $296,250,053 #139 #176 [42]
X2 May 1, 2003 May 2, 2003 $214,949,694 $192,607,919 $407,557,613 #65 #86 [43]
X-Men: The Last Stand May 25, 2006 May 26, 2006 $234,362,462 $224,893,546 $459,256,008 #51 #65 [44]
X-Men film series $606,611,873 $556,451,801 $1,163,063,674

Each of the films set opening records in the United States: X-Men had the highest July opening yet,[45] while X2 and X-Men: The Last Stand earned the fourth highest opening weekends yet.[46][47] All of these records have since been surpassed. X-Men: The Last Stand and X2 rank as the seventh and eighth most successful superhero films, while X-Men is thirteenth.[48] The third, second and first films are the fifth, sixth and seventh most successful Marvel Comics adaptations,[49] as well as overall the seventh, eighth and fifteenth most successful comic book adaptations.[50]

Critical reaction

Film Rotten Tomatoes Metacritic Yahoo! Movies
Overall Cream of the Crop
X-Men 80% (142 reviews)[51] 57% (28 reviews)[52] 64% (33 reviews)[53] N/A
X2 87% (212 reviews)[54] 80% (35 reviews)[55] 68% (38 reviews)[56] B (15 reviews)[57]
X-Men: The Last Stand 57% (216 reviews)[58] 50% (38 reviews)[59] 58% (38 reviews)[60] B- (15 reviews)[61]

Wesley Morris of the Boston Globe praised the X-Men films as "more than a cash-guzzling wham-bang Hollywood franchise... these three movies sport philosophy, ideas, a telethon-load of causes, and a highly elastic us-versus-them allegory." Morris praised X-Men: The Last Stand for "put[ting] the heroes of a mighty summer blockbuster in a rare mortal position. Realism at this time of year? How unorthodox!"[62] Roger Ebert gave the films good reviews, but criticized them because "there are just plain too many mutants, and their powers are so various and ill-matched that it's hard to keep them all on the same canvas."[63] Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle, criticized the films' themes, saying "The pretensions take the form of the central metaphor that compares mutants to people of extraordinary, groundbreaking talent. That metaphor is bogus... The vision at the heart of X-Men - of a golden Utopia in which humans live side by side with mutants - is absurd."[64]

The first two films were highly praised due to their cerebral tone, but when Bryan Singer left, many criticized his successor Brett Ratner. Colin Colvert of the Star Tribune felt "Bryan Singer's sensitivity to [the discrimination themes] made the first two X-Men films surprisingly resonant and soulful for comic-based summer extravaganzas... Singer is adept at juggling large casts of three-dimensional characters, Ratner makes shallow, unimaginative bang-ups."[65] James Berardinelli felt, "X-Men: The Last Stand isn't as taut or satisfying as X-Men 2, but it's better constructed and better paced than the original X-Men. The differences in quality between the three are minor, however; despite the change in directors, there seems to be a single vision."[66] David Denby of The New Yorker praised "the liquid beauty and the poetic fantasy of Singer’s work", but called Ratner's film "a crude synthesizer of comedy and action tropes."[67]

The X-Men films received good reviews from fans of the comic books, but there was criticism of the large cast, and the limited screentime for all of them. Richard George of IGN praised the depictions of Wolverine, Professor X, Magneto, Jean Grey and William Stryker, and was also pleased with the portrayals of Mystique, Beast and Nightcrawler. However, George felt many of the younger X-Men characters, such as Rogue and Iceman, were "adjectiveless teenager[s]", and was disappointed by Cyclops and Storm's characterizations. He observed the filmmakers were "big fans of silent henchmen", due to the small roles of the various villainous mutants; such as Lady Deathstrike. George felt that the success of X-Men "paved the way for other hits like the Spider-Man series, Fantastic Four, V for Vendetta and Singer's own adaptation of Superman."[68] Spider-Man director Sam Raimi said he was a fan of the series, particularly Singer's films.[69] Film historian Kim Newman also tonally compared Batman Begins to Singer's films.[70]

Tie-in material

On June 1, 2000, Marvel published a comic book prequel to X-Men, entitled X-Men: Beginnings, revealing the backstories of Magneto, Rogue and Wolverine.[71] There was also an adaptation of the film.[72] Marvel also released an adaptation of X2, which also contained prequels detailing Nightcrawler's backstory and Wolverine's time searching for Alkali Lake.[73] Del Rey Books also published novelizations of the three films. The latter two were written by Chris Claremont.[74][75][76] In 2006, X-Men: The Official Game was released, which was set between X2 and X-Men: The Last Stand.[77]

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