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Summary: Good movie..don't listen to what others have to say!
Review: This movie was a good movie! Some people said it stunk and had bad acting but that isn't true. It was an all star cast. The people that write bad reviews for this movie are people who don't understand X-Men or people who get mad if one thing about the plot isn't right. The director of X-Men said "if you are looking for a movie with huge special effects and lots of fighting scenes then this isn't the movie to see". This movie has a nice plot though it doesn't fit totally with the comics or animated X-Men show. If you love X-Men and you are NOT a complainer then get this movie other wise don't buy it and then complain to everyone how you hated it because it just makes people mad at you. Have a good day :)
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Summary: A Bit of Fun
Review: X-Men is not a film that is going to last forever in the annals of film history, but it is a fun movie, enjoyable, fast moving, pretty good plot and excellent action sequences. The story is not particularly cerebral, but it doesn't have to be - good, solid entertainment with mutants beating each other over the head. Enjoyable stuff.
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Summary: Impressive first effort
Review: The film overall was great. Special Effects were not overdone. The writing crisp and efficient with a believable plotline, setting the stage for more adventures. Translating comics to the silver screen is no easy task, let's hope the same creative team keeps improving with each film. When it was announced that Dougray Scott was to be cast as Wolverine and Halle Berry as Storm I thought, "Not going to bother with this film." But thankfully MI2 ran overschedule causing X-men's Director to look to Hugh Jackman...Hooray! He is perfect as Wolverine, the man can act! Halle Berry as the Storm was a casting mistake. Angela Bassett is the only known African-American actress who could have pulled off the proper blend of regal elegance and fearless of the character. Ms. Berry was physically wrong for the role and lacks a particular "presence". Patrick Stewart is perfect as Professor X. Great suits! Allan Rickman was my original choice, but Ian McKellan blews him out of the water. Looking forward to more thrills from our favorites mutants!
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Summary: Excellent!!!
Review: This movie was a big hit! The story line was a little weak but other than that the movie was a huge success! The special effects was one of the things that were really smooth. I only wanted the movie to have more characters from the actual cartoon. This movie is worth seeing!!
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Summary: Brilliant acting from Jackman, Stewart, and Paquin!
Review: There are three wonderful performances in this movie. Hugh Jackman is awesome as Wolverine. Patrick Stewart is calm and commanding as Xavier. But the heart of the film is Anna Paquin's Rogue. The filmmakers decided to make Rogue a real person rather than the fake cartoon version. Some fans still don't get the fact that making Rogue real gives the movie depth. Ignore them. Paquin's Rogue makes this movie a film worth watching AND thinking about. Rogue is terribly tragic because she is a real teenage girl with a tragic affliction. She is forever alone. And Paquin is brilliant as Rogue. See this film. The scenes between Paquin and Jackman are truly touching. Trust me, this is a very well acted film. See it.
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Summary: X-tremely well done
Review: Being an X-Men fan from way back, I've always been leary of movie adaptations, which tend to re-package comics in a more simplified, special effects / powers emphasized over characterization, "public-friendly" form. The X-Men movie, however, managed to hang on to the decades old complex characterizations of its main characters, and show some of the depth that made the X-Men series such a good read all these years. Casting of Prof. X, Wolverine, Magneto, Toad, Jean Grey, and the young Rogue was superb. Toad actually surpassed his comic book version. The previous relationship between Rogue and Mystique was ignored in favor of a new plotline, and Scott/Cyclops seemed a tad young for Jean, but I can live with that considering how well it all turned out as a package. The Storm character was nowhere near as strong, compassionate and imposing a character as she is in the book (group leader material once Scott gets out of the way), but since she was considered a secondary character in the movie, it was probably wise not to flesh out her personality as fully as it is in the books. We would have wound up with just one too many subplots happening. Hopefully in a sequel she'll really get a chance to shine. Looking forward to the next go round.
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Summary: Awesome Movie
Review: I was not a marvel fan when I first went to see this movie. This movie is very well made. There is no corny comic book stuff. It is all action! I saw this in the theatre twice! The actors are great and the story line is eventful! I would recommend this to all of my friends!
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Summary: Mostly disappointing
Review: When I used to read comics back in high school, the X-Men were my favorite and so I watched this movie more out of sense of nostalgia than anything else. Unfortunately, it didn't exceed those rather modest expectations - this despite the fact that the X-Men seemed to me one of the few super-hero comics that could be effectively adapted into an SF film and gain an appeal outside of fans of the original comic book. But the director and writers seemed unsure about how to approach the movie: either make it a genre film for "X-Men insiders" or an SF thriller with broad appeal. The result is a little of neither. Even so, the acting is generally good in spite everything going against the movie. Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen are perfectly cast as Professor Xavier and Magneto, respectively, the two most intriguing characters in the whole X-Men story - personally I think the whole movie would have been much better if the story and action revolved exclusively around them. Here, however, they are generally sidelined (esp. Prof. Xavier, who spends a major part of the movie in a coma) as more emphasis is placed on fight sequences and special effects. Despite some very good, even moving scenes, like the first sequence showing Magneto's early childhood as a Holocaust survivor, the movie's plot is actually quite silly - believe me, comic books are written better than this. There is little in the way of interesting character development, since the story is based on a serial publication with dozens of characters and none of them are given a chance to really stand out. Perhaps that's the main problem: the X-Men would function much better as a television series than as a feature-length film.
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Summary: Oh...they should've given this the 2-Disc treatment
Review: This was the best summer movie of last year. This was also a great movie reditioning of the classic comic-book. Next, with all the cuts made before it was released, it should've made it easily onto a second disc. I mean, ye gods man, this was a great movie! How could they NOT give it 2 discs?
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Summary: Tried to pack too much into its length
Review: X-Men (Bryan Singer, 2000) Singer is a genius, pure and simple. ANyone who could create something like The Usual Suspects has to be a genius. No two ways about it. And thus he was tabbed to do the long-awaited film version of the comic book X-Men. And to his credit, he did a wonderful job with what he was given. The story centers mostly around Wolverine (an interestingly-coifed Hugh Jackman) and Rogue (Anna Paquin), who find themselves thrown together and caught in the middle of a longtime battle between old friends Magneto (Ian McKellen) and Professor Xavier (Patrick Stewart). Wolverine and Rogue, along with Magneto and Xavier, are mutants-- humans with various special powers. Magneto and Xavier run the two cliques of mutants, if you will, and Wolverine and Rogue swear allegiance to neither; they don't have much time to weight their options, though, as the two sides fighting over them attempt to recruit them for a very dastardly deed that Magneto's got going on. A plot that simple would have made for a bang-up two and a half hour action film. Where the writers went wrong was in trying to add too much in the way of subplots, and they ended up with something a lot more confused than it really needed to be. A focus on the humanity of the mutants and the decisions that Wolverine and Rogue need to make would have been enough to fill a film (I mean, come on, the Usual Suspects wasn't all that long on plot, either; all the greatness came from the subtleties within an extremely simple mystery). Still, if looked at somewhat simply, it does work as an action film; there's a good deal of eye candy, stuff blows up, Ray Park does his usual flying-leap-all-over-the-place thing, and Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen aren't considered two of the greats for nothing, you know. A great way to kill some time, but don't be expecting a whole lot of depth. ***
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