The film comic book fans have been waiting years to hate

Rating: 1/10 (27 November 2000)

Decaf film making. I'm getting very tired of hearing how risky it is to make a costume hero film, and how they had to play it safe to guarantee box office and sequels. Question: why would I *want* to see a sequel of this? I'd be as well just playing the game of the film, over and over and over and...
Compare with the gorgeously stylish and daring Batman (1989), which spawned a series of increasingly mundane and lack lustre sequels. When we're all heartily sick of the whole X Men franchise, we won't even be able to look back and lament over how good it used to be.