[A record of sorts, it was thefirstUS feature film to show a bathroom with a toilet bowl.]With a novice actor (James Murray) in the lead role, he film was simply a realistic, bittersweet drama of the existence of an ordinary common and average American (an Everyman prototype embodied in a white-collar worker) trying to make it with his wife in the monolithic big city - but without any maudlin sentimentality, extreme passion, exploitation of romance, or escapist melodrama.He was told that Victor took captured mutants to Stryker""s new laboratory called "the island" - he also said: "They run it together.He then held up his intimidating, miraculous weapon after demonstrating its powers, and rattled off its features: "This is my boomstick! It""s a 12-gauge double-barreled Remington.With the arrival of Sabretooth and Magneto, the X-Men were imprisoned by twisted metal.Magneto was insistent on carrying through with his lethal plan - aiming his machine at Ellis Island: "Those people down there, they control our fate and the fate of every other mutant.