Word: stryker
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Dates: during 2003-2003
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...Army isn't taking any chances with the $3.4 million Stryker, its first new combat vehicle in 20 years. Currently stationed in Kuwait, 300 of the Strykers are due to cross the border into Iraq in the coming weeks, but they need some beefing up before they roll. The Army is concerned that the eight-wheel battle wagons are vulnerable to the insurgents' favorite weapon--the primitive but ubiquitous rocket-propelled grenade (RPG). So more than 100 soldiers and contractors have been working virtually around the clock, bolting a 5,200-lb. metal cage resembling a big green catcher...
This time the sacred monsters must battle not only their fellow-mutant nemesis Magneto (Ian McKellen) and the morph-o-matic Mystique (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) but also a figure familiar from a quillion adventure movies--the steely sicko military renegade. Stryker (Brian Cox) is an ex-Army conniver who would use X powers to evil ends and has a kung-fu cutie named Oyama (Kelly Hu) to kick start any fight. Stryker must contend with a late recruit to the coalition of the thrilling: Nightcrawler (Alan Cumming), whose powers include walking through walls, vanishing in a plume of fume...
...Halle Berry) and Jean Grey (Famke Janssen) take off for Boston to retrieve the would-be assassin, while Cyclops (James Marsden) and Professor X (Patrick Stewart) pay a visit to the still-imprisoned misanthropic villain Magneto. Meanwhile, the frightened President is confronted by a McCarthy-like figure named General Stryker (Brian Cox), whose goal, we later learn, is to eradicate mutants from the face of the earth. Stryker is more powerful and knowledgeable than he seems and may even hold the key to the blurry past of the principal X-Man, Wolverine...
...dialogue, in true comic book fashion, leans towards the unnecessarily dramatic. After the president views surveillance photographs of the X-Men’s jet Blackbird, he asks Stryker what it’s used for. Stryker, with an expression of utter gravity, replies, “I don’t know. But it comes out of the basketball court.” Adding a tongue-in-cheek quality to such lines would probably have worked much better than playing them straight. But Singer otherwise handles the material admirably, juggling a crowded script and executing the most complex special...