Okay now that we have a prequel that may as well doesn't exist out of the way, let's get to the actual trilogy of X-Men.
Plot: When a teenage girl named Rouge accidentally absorbs the life force from her boyfriend while kissing him, she runs away in fear of hurting her family with her mutant powers. She comes across another mutant named Wolverine, and they both get attacked by Sabertooth only to be rescued by the X-Men. The X-Men bring them to the X-Mansion where they meet Charles Xavier who leads them and uses the mansion as a safe haven for mutant to control their powers. Meanwhile, an evil mutant named Magneto is planning a scheme against non-mutants leaving the X-Men and Wolverine to try to find out what it is and stop him.
While it's not the greatest superhero movie that I've seen, it does hold out pretty well as a first film. It has a very nice pace, good character development, and it had a plot that helped give us a very basic yet smart way to introduce us to the X-Men and what it generally is as a comic book series. It also has some great casting choices with Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, Ian McKellen as Magneto and my personal favorite, Patrick Stewart - also best known for being Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation - as Professor Charles Xavier. All these actors along with the rest of the cast play their roles very well, displaying just about exactly how many of us imagine the characters in the comics. It also had good action ( well...considering it's time and stuff anyway I guess) nice effects and it has some good design choices when it came to stuff like the costumes with the heroes and villains. The one issue I would have with this film is the climax. I'm not sure if this is the best way to explain it, but despite its action and build up, what they came up with just didn't really work as something really big that's happening during the very end of the film. I mean I guess they do a decent job at it as a whole, but I feel like what they did with Magneto's scheme and how they used - or did not really use some of the members of the X-Men just didn't make the whole thing big or dramatic enough to work.
And that's my review for X-Men. Despite my issues with the climax, it still was a very well casted film with smart character development and pacing that helps the film more or less stand out on its own as a way of giving us the X-Men and otherwise giving a clear basic introduction to them for audience members who don't know them from the comics.
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