The X-Files Movie: Fight The Future (1998) - apart from the early scene with an FBI chopper during the rooftop search for bombs,
this SF thriller has all unmarked black helicopters. They carry off a young boy infected with the alien virus, chase heroes' Mulder and Scully
(David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson) away - from uncovering the truth? - through GM corn fields, and also transport the villainous 'Smoking Man'
(William B. Davis) on his visit to secret labs.
In the TV show's final episode, The Truth [see behind-the-scenes photo gallery], there's a great rotary
action sequence featuring a couple of black helicopter gunships (Eurocopter AS-355 Twin Stars).
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X-Men (2000) - in Bryan Singer's nifty superhero adventure, the mutant-hating
US senator (Bruce Davison) finds his official transport chopper is hijacked by the female shapeshifter who has replaced his aide. Later, the bad guys
use this same stolen helicopter to kidnap a teenage girl and escape from local police, after beating our heroes in a fight at the railway station.
X2
(aka: X-Men 2, 2003) - this sequel actioner features a Boeing CH-46 Sea Knight that's used by Magneto (Ian McKellen) to escape from the
heroes, after a climactic battle against top villain Stryker (Brian Cox).
X-Men: First Class (2010) - this superhero adventure, set in
the 1960s, features a Westland-Bell 47G, which flies the enemy mutant psychic Emma Frost (portrayed by January Jones) to a secret Russian military
HQ. Bemusingly, the American helicopter is presented here as if it is was a Soviet machine of that era! It's churlish to complain, though, seeing
as this sci-fi movie 'retcons' nuclear history of the Cuban missile crisis, anyway.
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) - this prequel to the
X-Men trilogy features a Huey during brief Vietnam War shots of the opening-credits' montage, but the film's main aerial action sequence
occurs during the hero's escape from a secret military base. Logan (Hugh Jackman) is chased by a Bell 204 gunship, which fires bullets and rockets.
The hero's getaway motorbike collides with the bad guys' military vehicle, throwing Wolverine up into the air, straight at the chopper (similar
imagery appears in the video-game, but with a generic rotorcraft). His claws slash through the
rotor blades, causing the helicopter to crash. Logan grabs onto the outside of the machine until it hits the ground. When he walks away from the
wreckage, a spark from his claws ignites a trail of spilt fuel causing an explosion. After the finale's showdown, Prof. Xavier arrives at Three
Mile Island, to help rescue a group of mutants, in a futuristic transport helicopter (probably all CGI work).
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X - The Man With X-Ray Eyes (1964) -
"there are some nice scenes this Roger Corman movie, where a Highway Patrol Bell 47G helicopter
chases the renegade scientist (played by Ray Milland) along highways and across open country." - NATHAN DECKER
X - The Unknown (1956)
- this well done and creepy b&w Hammer horror flick (about radioactive sludge that melts people!),
features brief scenes of a Bell 47 operated by the British military. - BILL HIERS
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xXx
(aka: Triple X, 2002) - Rob Cohen's action thriller is about an American 'extreme sports' star (Vin Diesel) playing the role of an NSA
secret agent on a mission to infiltrate a group of Russian gangsters. The film includes a trial by fire for our hero, featuring two gunships (a
Bell 212 and a 206 JetRanger) attacking the village of a Colombian drug baron's cocaine plantation to ensure that captured the novice spies escape
during a chaotic shootout.
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xXx: The Next Level (aka: xXx - State Of The Union, 2005) - Lee Tamahori's actioner features a hijacked Eurocopter AS355 F-1
Ecureuil 2 used in the prison breakout scene, where the hero (Ice Cube) leaps off a roof and grabs onto the chopper's skid, just as it swoops
into view. During the climactic sequence, we see three Black Hawks in pursuit of the US President's bullet train leaving Washington D.C. but
the CGI work on these military helicopters is entirely unconvincing. Furthermore, one of them is actually a Sikorsky MH-60 Pave Hawk, not a
regular UH-60 transport.
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