Not surprisingly, he film did not receive any Academy Award nominations.Plot SynopsisScrolling "Special Message" Prologue:In the edited version of the film released by Esper, a two and a half-minute "Special Message" - a moralistic and preachy disclaimer - was added to he film""s beginning.In the meantime, the Sheik exited a local pawnbrokers shop (I.Goldman & Co.) after selling the stolen gold watch for $4 dollars, and returned to the candy shop to purchase the more-expensive $3 dollar box of candy.The young victim had blood-red tear streaks dripping from her empty sockets where her eyes had been stabbed out.What is much more important than the basic blackmail-murder plot is the stylish method andprocessof the private detective""s quest, that the viewer identifies with and shares, as he makes his way through the murky world of nasty crime from one oppressive setting o the next, or from one wicked character, fallen woman, orfemme fataleto another, until eventually discovering love with his female protagonist.He was searching for more information about his origins.Mutants Storm/Ororo Monroe (Halle Berry), Dr.Jean Grey (Famke Janssen) suffering from elepathic glitches and scary nightmares, and Cyclops/Scott Summers (James Marsden) were heading up a student field trip to NY""s natural history museum, leading young superhero mutants from Professor Charles Xavier""s (Patrick Stewart) X-Mansion School for Gifted Youngsters in Westchester County, NY.