Plot SynopsisUnder the opening company logo and titles, the film opened in wartime Los Angeles.The disorienting opening shot was of a blinding ceiling light and sounds of accusatory voices in a dark shadowy room, and then soon after, a pull-back camera movement revealed the side of the face of tough yet vulnerable, blindfolded gumshoe detective Philip Marlowe (played by 30s musical crooner Powell in a dramatic role switch).Lucius Fox had been demoted to company president.Terrorist Bane interrupted the assembled board meeting, and took three individuals hostage: Fox, Tate, and John Fredericks (John Nolan) who volunteered himself.Two other mutants materialized from nowhere and saved them with their powers from the exploding camper-trailer:laser-eyed, protective visor-wearing Cyclops/Scott Summers (James Marsden)weather-controlling Storm/Ororo Monroe (Halle Berry)Wolverine and Rogue were brought to Xavier""s X-mansion (in Westchester, NY), where he had congregated a special group of good mutants.He wonders: "That, uh, practically, uh, eliminates everything but ham and eggs...No ham." He is forced to order two four-minute eggs in a cup, white bread, and milk.He mutters:I don""t know why I ever come in here - The flies get the best of everything.On Stage 6 at Esoteric Studios, his niece Gloria Jean (Gloria Jean playing herself) is doing a test shoot, performing "Estrella."As he forced a kiss on her lips, he heard a click - she had handcuffed his left wrist to hers, as he threatened: "I""m really pressed for time, so where""s the key?" When she wouldn""t answer, he reached for a meat cleaver, raised it in the air, and said as he grabbed her: "Above or below the wrist, Clarice.