Film guide · 2003
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.
In the White House, a blue-skinned mutant teleports past the guards and reaches the President, but is shot and vanishes, leaving behind a note: Mutant freedom now.
Logan comes back to the school after finding nothing at Alkali Lake.
Professor X and Cyclops visit Magneto in prison. He admits Stryker drugged him into revealing secrets about Cerebro. On their way out, the two are captured.
Stryker's soldiers storm the school at night. Logan fights to get the kids out, and seeing Stryker stirs old memories.
Logan, Rogue, Bobby and John (Pyro) take refuge at Bobby's family home. Bobby tells his family he's a mutant.
Picked up by Jean and Storm's jet, they're shot by fighter planes. Magneto saves them from crashing.
Jean and Storm find the blue-skinned mutant, Nightcrawler. He'd been controlled and remembers nothing.
Mystique tricks a guard and injects him with metal, letting Magneto escape his plastic prison.
Magneto explains that Stryker built a copy of Cerebro to make Professor X kill every mutant on Earth. The X-Men and Magneto join forces.
They infiltrate Stryker's base hidden inside the Alkali Lake dam.
Logan finds the lab where metal was bonded to his bones, and fights Stryker's agent, a woman with the same claws.
A brainwashed Cyclops attacks Jean, and her power begins to surge out of control.
Magneto reprograms the fake Cerebro to target humans instead of mutants. Storm and Nightcrawler free Professor X from the illusion.
The dam bursts and a flood rushes toward them. The jet won't take off.
Jean steps off the jet, holds back the water with her mind and lifts the plane. She saves her friends and disappears beneath the flood.
The X-Men appear before the President and urge him to seek a future where mutants and humans live together.
In the final shot, a shape like a fiery bird glimmers beneath the lake.