An excellent movie that surpasses expectations.

Rating: 9/10 (14 July 2000)

This is possibly the best movie to come out this summer. I was waiting for it just like everyone else, but I was skeptical after seeing Mission: Impossible 2. I had thought they would take out the team aspect of the X-Men and focus on Wolverine, but the movie was put together very well. While Wolverine played a large part in the plot, he wasn't the focus, and the entire cast worked together as a team.
The casting was excellent, and the special effects were mixed in beautifully. The actors seemed comfortable with their "mutant" powers and used them very well. The story is well written, but I feel that there were some things that didn't follow the comic or the cartoon, such as Wolverine being a little too soft, but that is easily overlooked due to the good chemistry of the whole cast.
I was disappointed in Ray Park's role in the movie, but he portrayed Toad very well. The rest of the actors captured their respective characters well, and you could feel the tension building between Wolverine, Jean Grey and Cyclops from the start.
Overall, it was an awesome movie, definitely the best one I've seen yet. I'm definitely going to go see it again.