Top cast:Chris Pine,Michelle Rodriguez,Regé-Jean Page
Director:Francis Boggs&Otis Turner
Genre:History
Region:Palestine
Year:2000
Storyline:(Other high performers for foreign openings included:X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)at $100.8 million,Deadpool (2016)at $132.3 million, andLogan (2017)at $159 million).As it turned out, of all theX-Menfilms, it had thelowestdomestic revenue total (to date) at $132.6 million.This film was set longafterall he existing entries in theX-Menseries-franchise.The immortal, self-healing mutant traveled to modern-day Japan to say farewell to dying acquaintance Yashida, a wealthy tech-tycoon, and found himself protecting sheltered, rich heiress Mariko (Japanese supermodel Tao Okamoto in her first film role) from deadly Yakuza opponents while struggling with his own immortality.He first starts to follow her from her high-rise apartment building on Nob Hill to a flower shop [a significant location and motif] on Grant Avenue through a narrow back alley and back door, where she buys a red and white nosegay bouquet as he voyeuristically peers at her with an ingenious split-screen effect.Very slightly, it levitated upward (with the sound of a heartbeat) - suggesting that Superman was still alive.Like a prototypical film noirfemme fatale, she reacts coldly and unemotionally to the suicide.She notices his confession note in an envelope addressed to the District Attorney at the Hall of Justice in the pseudonymous town of Kenport.The rules of the Prime Directive were blatantly violated when theEnterpriserose out of the water, hovered above the volcano, and a displeased, frowning Spock was beamed back on-board into the transporter room.