Which side are you on?
This film does have a lot of special effects which are done well. This combined with the action and a reasonable story line do make this quite a good movie. In short, if you like the action/Sci-fi films you will like this one.
Some believe that a war is coming and one way to stop it is to make everyone on the planet a mutant. The mastermind behind this is Magneto, he is not able to power the machine on his own as he is getting on in years. He needs another mutant, one with the ability to temporarily gain another mutant's powers, Rogue.
The machine will in all likelihood kill her, another reason Magneto is willing to power it himself. Rogue manages to find the mutant school with our hero's, the mutants that believe humans and mutants can co-exist and even thrive. Are they strong enough to stop Magneto from using Rogue in is plan?