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Summary: A Pleasant Surprise
Review: The combination of my disdain toward the last three Batman movies coupled with the horrid memories of the Captain America and Punisher movies led to the formation of understandably low expectations for this film. The early photos I saw of the main characters in their redesigned costumes surely didn't help matters either. I was therefore pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed this film upon first seeing it. True, the story was a little murky at times and the cliches came fast and furious towards the end of the film but the care taken in preserving the intergrity of the original comic book upon which the film is based helped to alleviate these shortcomings. This film is a testament to the fact that material that originated in comic book form can transalte well to the screen with little alteration. All the studios have to do is maintain the spirit and complexities of the original source material instead of dumbing it down for the masses. If this formula is followed then hopefully all of us will be spared any more comic book movie debacles.
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Summary: A good movie for action-adventure fans.
Review: X-Men is a good movie for it's fast-paced storyline and great acting. The visual effects in the movie are awesome. Although I enjoyed the movie, die-hard X-Men fans might not like the fact that the storyline strayed from the comic books a bit. Brian Singer did a great job not making the characters tacky and putting a modern edge on the costumes and scenery. The DVD has great special features. My personal favorite is a screentest of Hugh Jackman. The edited scenes are great too. My only problem is with Anna Paquin. She just doesn't act in the movie.
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Summary: Could have been better...
Review: The plot was okay at first... but the ending kind of trailed off. It seemed like a promising adaptation of the comic book series, but it just doesn't have the action you'd expect. The script, frankly wasn't that good.
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Summary: A brilliant adaption
Review: Many people including me were awaiting this adaption of the cartoon and comic series and i, along with many others, were not let down. The movie is filled with action, a great plot and most of the great Xmen heros. As i soon as i stopped watching i could not wait for the sequel and iam still saying it. The dvd itself has a lot of special features and a coll outer card case but if you buy it you wont care about that, you'll just be thrilled with the movie itself. It's the best comic adapted film with Blade ever.
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Summary: One of the best movie adaptation of a comic book. Ever!
Review: I should first admit that I was a big fan of "X-Men" comics as a youth, especially during the Chris Claremont / John Byrne collaboration era in the early 1980's. I collected those monthly issues religiously, even though my weekly allowance of a measly dollar a week made comic book collecting nearly beyond my means. So it is likely that my opinion of this film adaptation may be more than a little biased. With that acknowledgement out of the way, I want to say that "X-Men" is easily the best movie adaptation of a superhero comic book that I've ever seen. Before seeing it, I, like all the other fans of the comic book, was wary about how accurately the characters will be portrayed. We have really no reason to trust Hollywood to be faithful to the original comic book considering their incompetence in previous similar efforts. Man, I still can't believe Superman took Lois to the Fortress of Solitude and that Batman revealed his identity to some stupid girl, even if she happens to be Kim Basinger. However, I had no such complaints about how the X-Men were translated onto the screen, and in fact, fans of the comic book will be hard pressed to come up with any significant differences between the movie versions of Professor X and Wolverine and their comic book counterparts. I am especially delighted that the filmmakers decided to retain the moral grayness of Wolverine and his lack of compunction over the act of killing. I also liked how many of the plot elements were left unresolved, because it means that a sequel will surely follow. Another likely bonus for X-Men fans in the upcoming sequel is the appearance of Kitty Pride and Iceman, who were both briefly introduced as young students at Professor Xavier's School for the Gifted. In an effort to be objective, I will admit that the story did suffer from excessive expository dialogue and unnecessary scenes that appeared to have been inserted only to serve as descriptions of the respective capabilities of each mutant. But heck, that just means the sequel will be even better since the writers will only need to concentrate on the story. Overall, this movie will make you forget the real world for 90 minutes and will make kids wish they could squeeze into a microwave oven in order to mutate themselves.
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Summary: COULD HAVE BEEN GREAT- WASN'T!
Review: Bryan Singer proved he was a good director with the usual suspects and what is here looks good and is stylishly done. Infact it would have made a great first half of a film. Unfortunately it is the whole thing!The film sets up the sequels really well and they might well be good films, but when i pay to see a movie i want to see a movie, not an extended trailor for a soon-to-be movie franchise.This is like the pilot of a T.V. series.Sets up the characters, ends with a short action sequence to show what they can do and that's it.VERY DISAPPOINTING!!
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Summary: Very well done and satisfying
Review: When creating a movie about the X-Men there is undoubtedly a large amount of pressure on that persons shoulders. So many people were looking forward to this picture to do theie favorite comic book characters justice on the big screen. I am happy to say that the screen-writer and director both did a fantastic job with X-Men. The plot is fairly complex, the charcters well cast(save Halle Berry, I could have done without her), and the action is kept up and supported with a great storyline. The movie is great for fans of the comic book but people who have no idea who the X-Men are can also enjoy it since there is no real backstory for the movie needed to enjoy it. The ending was left wide open for a sequel or two and I can't wait to see Hugh Jackman back in action.
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Summary: Houston, we have yellow spandex in-jokes.
Review: There are two ways of watching "X-Men": either as a bad sci-fi flik, or as a worse film version of the comic book/animated series. As a sci-fi flik, "X-Men" isn't as bad as it is silly. Hugh Jackman as Wolverine has an overmoussed 'do, Patrick Stewart never comes off the screen as anyone but himself, and the fight sequences are so heavily computerized that the characters are almost continuously in the air.If watched as a film version of the classic comic book series, things get infinitely worse. "Humanized" in the best Hollywood traditions, the X-men act like sulky teenagers: they push and curse and "claim their girls." The last is especially ridiculous, since reducing the cast of X-men to three essentially ensures that there's a love triangle. The conflict between Cyclops and Wolverine for the affections of Jean Grey is ludicrous in the extreme. Storm, the only other "official" team member in the movie, is a non-entity. Where are Beast, Gambit, and Nightcrawler? Continuing efforts of making the movie more "mature" lead to very few improvements. The movie makes the leap from cartoon violence to real violence: in the cartoon, we would have never seen Wolverine run his claws through Mystique. We would have never seen Senator Kelly, the mutant-hating McKarthy clone (R-Kansas), agonizingly dissolve into water. The plot is a miracle of compression: the impression is that the writers tried to squeeze in every last bit of X-men lore and then tossed out or changed whatever they didn't like. Thus, the central storyline is a retelling of the first episode of the cartoon series, only with Rogue (her sheepish character has nothing at all to do with brash but competent woman from the cartoon) in place of Jubilee (the only other change is that Wolverine is not yet an X-man, which makes very little difference). When the movie tires of this thread, it switches to Magneto's evil plot to change everyone into mutants, if only to allow for more floaty fight sequences. A lot of the original's entertainment value came from the intrinsic exoticism of the X-Men's allies and foes. Thus, Cyclops and his team fought Apocalypse in ancient Mayan temples, Magneto in the Lost Land, and even Deathbird in outer space. Here, there are three villains besides Magneto: Mystique, Sabretooth, and Toad - all of them with zero backstory. The writers forgot that Mystique is Nightcrawler's mother, and that her power is shape-changing, not acrobatics. Isn't Sabretooth supposed to have resulted from the same cruel experiments that created Wolverine? Magneto (Ian McKellen) is really the only sympathetic character in the film, probably unintentionally. I could identify with his cynical view of mankind. He was a significant character in a crowd of cardboard cutouts. "X-Men" ends on a happy note: I was happy that it was over. I'd much rather watch the cartoon.
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Summary: One of the great comic adaptations...
Review: All right, admittedly, this isn't "The Usual Suspects." It is, however, a well-done adaptation of a comic with a frightening backstory, both in terms of complication (I'm certain every single X-Man has died at least once, and if they haven't it's coming) and, well, stupidity. I should say where I come from; I hate the comic. Love comics, hate X-Men. It's not a comic book, it's a lifestyle, a monstrously twisted and convoluted backstory that REALLY needs to be cleaned away (DC Comics has the right idea, doing some huge event that purges various problems and contradictions.) As such, boiling it down, let alone rendering it watchable, would have been hard work. Yet this is a perfectly accessible movie; you don't have to know ANY backstory to enjoy it. Bryan Singer at the helm definitely helps, but the cast is also mostly sharp. I wish Halle Berry hadn't done so many Quaaludes before every scene, but she's the only bad apple in the bunch. The film shows a definite vision and cohesiveness a lot of action movies lack, period, let alone an atrocity like "Batman and Robin." The script is compact, well-written. I only wish there had been a little more...but then, a good action movie always leaving you wishing for a little more. This isn't Tim Burton's "Batman", but it's excellent and I definitely think it should be in the discriminating action fan's collection.
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Summary: Not The X-Men I Know
Review: I've been a X-Men comic book reader for a long time and all i have to say is who are these imposters playing in the X-Men movie they look and act nothing like the comic book heroes i know.What's up with those stupide costumes the're wearing?The only one that looks true to the original character is Prof X.The special effects are pretty good i'll give them that and i guess Magneto is kinda cool too it's an ok movie if you just wanna watch a movie but i find that hardcore comic book fans will agree that it could have been way better.
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