highly entertaining

Rating: Null/10 (14 October 2000)

I was surprised to say the least when watching the X-men.
I expected to see a sci-fi movie with no plot, cardboard characters, and poor acting. But with great special effects. Well, I was very pleased when I left the theater. I thought this was a pretty good storyline, and stunning visual effects. So when I got home I checked the imdb on X-men.
I decided then that I would see the movie again sometime (I work in a movie theater, so that's no problem). And I did recently. What grabbed my atention the second time I saw it, was that the conversion from the comic book to the real deal was excellent. The suspense is really nicely built up, and the dialogues (especially the ones with Patrick Stewart) were good.
Compared to another sci-fi movie such as the Matrix, it just doesn't quite hack it. But it's surely one of the better sci-fi movies of the past few years.