Film guide · 2000
The whole film, start to finish, told scene by scene in words. Read this and you'll know everything that happens.
Contains every spoiler, up to the ending.
1944, a Nazi camp in Poland. Torn from his parents, young Erik screams, and the iron gate bends on its own. He can move metal.
The near future. When Marie kisses her boyfriend, he collapses into a coma. Her touch drains life and power. She runs away and calls herself Rogue.
In Congress, Senator Kelly pushes a law to register mutants. Jean Grey argues against it, while Professor X and Erik, now called Magneto, watch.
In a Canadian bar, Rogue meets Logan, a cage fighter with metal claws who heals instantly and can't remember his past.
On a snowy road, the giant Sabretooth attacks them. Cyclops and Storm arrive and rescue them.
They wake at Professor X's school for young mutants, where he teaches toward peace between mutants and humans.
Logan is drawn to Jean, who is Cyclops's girlfriend.
Magneto's followers kidnap Senator Kelly, and Magneto uses a machine to turn him into a mutant.
Kelly escapes to the school, but his body dissolves into water. The machine's effect is unstable.
Mystique, who can take any form, poses as a student and tricks Rogue into leaving. Logan finds her at the station, but Magneto takes her.
Running the machine nearly kills Magneto. He plans to make Rogue absorb his power and run it in his place.
Sabotage by Mystique knocks Professor X into a coma. Jean uses Cerebro and finds Magneto: world leaders are gathering for a summit near the Statue of Liberty.
The X-Men battle Magneto's followers inside the statue. Logan defeats Mystique, and Cyclops blasts Sabretooth away.
Logan destroys the machine and frees Rogue. He presses his face to hers, letting her draw on his healing power.
Magneto is locked in a cell with no metal. Professor X visits, and the two old friends talk over a game of chess.
Logan heads north to a lake in search of clues about his past.