(F)X Men: Take a good look at this jewel

Rating: 8/10 (31 August 2002)

I've seen X Men like ten times on TV and I regret not seeing it on theater. The FX, amazing. The performances are superb, specially for a Sci-Fi/Action/Comic Book film with a shining MacKellen. The cast itself is remarkable, mixing hardcore action performers with award-winning actors. Bryan Singer is a not-that-young talent, I've seen most of his movies (X-Men, Stephen King's Apt Pupil & the best crime movie except for the Godfather of course, Usual Suspects) and he shows his good taste for the visual here.
If you don't like the fact that sometimes it doesn't follow the comic book or the beloved cartoon, Screw You. Or don't like the plot, blame Stan Lee. But the plot, while not *intelligent* or *subtile* is very real, after all it's nothing else than Martin Luther King vs Malcolm X; ironic, isn't it, the fact that Magneto is Malcolm and not Professor X. It's a tremendous film that deserves a sequel, oh, right, it'll have one, no surprise, after all it left everything prepared for one.
By the way, it DID HAD character development, I can come out with some sort of profile about 'em, those who didn't see it have no perception at all. Screw You Too.
And the silver and gray lighting in some parts of the movie are delightful to the eye. Special mention for the X Women: Famke Jansen, Halle Berry & Rebecca Romijn are in my hot list of the hottest chicks. That adds a couple of points to this film's rating.
Oh, don't forget to see the sequel so that it becomes a sheer success and we may have X3 & X4; it actually looks darker (not the lights, the plot and violence/action) and will luckily bring us a better prospect 'bout the X World and the X Guys themselves (it'll be great to see more mutants than the first one, shame they still won't bring my favorite, Gambit, yet).
Rating: 12/10 (yeah, I gave it a 9 before, but to be faithful to the comments...)