Top cast:Emile Hirsch,Nicholas Downs,Elisha Cuthbert
Director:Max Skladanowsky
Genre:History
Region:Japan
Year:2001
Storyline:7 million (worldwide).It was the second highest-grossing film of the original trilogy.Set-pieces:whirling Nightcrawler's attack on the White House, Stryker's assault on the X-Men school, Magneto's jail-break, Deathstrike's and Wolverine's battle to the death, and the final collapsing dam sequence.The black and white, pessimistic film is one of the greatest British thrillers of the post-war era, in the best Alfred Hitchcock tradition, and beautifully produced and directed by Britisher Carol Reed.The boss has ordered production increases: "Section 5 - give 'em the limit," so the conveyor belt is sped up - a hilarious, frenzied scene as the Tramp makes an heroic effort to keep up.During a tracking shot toward the cabin, a burly, highly ambitious Big Ed, dressed in gangster attire (a black shirt, black hat and overcoat) and Cotton restlessly discuss overturning their boss' autocratic, homicidal leadership:Big Ed: We gotta blow outta here.Charlton Heston's belabored and uncredited cameo on his death bed was further informed by his position as NRA spokesman - and his praise for humanity's invention of guns: "What you hold in your hand is the proof of their power - their power of invention, their power of technology.