Do you know what happens to a movie when
it’s struck by Halle Berry?
The state of comic
book-based cinema at the turn of the millennium was bleak. Nolan's Dark Knight
trilogy was still five years off, and it would be preceded by a relentless
geyser of abysmality: Daredevil, Ang
Lee's The Hulk, Elektra, Fantastic Four,
and so on. Even Spike TV staples Ghost Rider and The Punisher
didn't exist yet. All that we had to cling to was the residue of the mid-'90s
Joel Schumacher Batman films which,
while rife with novelty appeal, were more perplexing than entertaining. But
then a beacon of hope appeared on the horizon: 2000’s X-Men.
