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Rating: 10/10 (13 May 2003)

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I've read some of the comments about this movie and I've had plenty of discussions with my movie friends about it. I think this movie was very good, but it did have one major problem.....The Budget!!
Since this movie was filmed in Toronto I know some of the people who worked on it. They told me of scenes that were supposed to be in the movie that were cut out for budget reasons. It seemed to me that most of the scenes where the mutants would use their powers seemed staged. Like this is going to be the Magneto lifting car scene. And this is going to be the Storm using lighting scene. Storm flew only once in the whole movie!

When I saw Spider-man last summer I noticed that he used his powers in a very natural way. He used them all the time. And I said to myself, that is what X-men was missing.
What makes the second X-men so much better is that the budget was huge. The Mutants used their powers in a much more natural way. Hence, more action scenes. Also bigger budget means more mutants.
What I loved about this movie was the script. The dialogue between Professor X and Magneto were amazing (especially there first exchange). The acting was excellent (Stewart, McKellan) on the whole. (except for Halle and Anna) And the fact that the two leaders of the Mutants are friends and yet they fight for different ideologies.
If you like X2 go back and take another look at X-men. The same people were involved with both, so how could one be so much better than the other??
Budget.