A 96 minute tour of 37 years of comics.

Rating: 7/10 (15 July 2000)

Bryan Singer has certainly succeeded in making a comic book movie that captures the flavor of the beloved Uncanny X-Men. All of the actors capture the personalities of their comic book counter-parts (with the exception of Mystique, who in the comics was the second leader of the Brotherhood of Mutants). The story line does not follow to an overly predictable conclusion. A special treat was cameos by X-Men standards like Kitty Pryde and Bobby Drake. This is a very good movie, but it does suffer from one flaw. Its way too short. Certainly I would hope that more time could have been spent developing Prof. Xavier, Storm, and Cyclops, without taking away from the obvious stars of the film, Wolverine (Hugh Jackman is AWESOME), Rogue, and Magneto. And, for a comic book movie, it was a little light on the action. It is well written, and Wolverine is the natural choice to be the center of the film. Overall, a good film. Certainly worth the time of any fan of comics, action movies, or science fiction.