On A Scale Of 10, I Give It An 11

Rating: Null/10 (28 August 2002)

The X-Men movie didn't live up to my expectations. No, it far succeeded them and we can thank this wonderful movie for giving the superhero genre a shot in the arm.
This movie has been adapted extremely well for the big screen and the characters playing the parts are totally perfect. For example, Patrick Stewart IS Professor X and Hugh Jackman is totally Wolverine. And what can I say about Ian McKellan as Magneto?
The costumes for the X-Men changed for this movie but I think when adapting superheroes to the big screen, it can be corny if you use the comic book costume. Black suited these characters far better.
The storyline was very good as the good mutants battled the bad mutants to try and save a world which didn't care if every mutant on the planet died.

I think a lot of comic book characters can teach us a thing or two. The X-Men is about bigotry and in a way I guess it is asking us to put aside our prejudices and to look inside a person. The X-Men are distrusted and hated because they have been born different; the world forgets that they are unique human beings with feelings and emotions. They have an illogical hatred of the mutants simply because of how they were born.
In a way, the X-Men is indicative of the world we live in where people kill each other on a daily basis simply because the other person has a different colour skin or follows a different faith. There are people out there who do judge other people on skin colour or religious faith and form an illogical hatred of said people without thinking that each person is different, that each person has their own dreams and ambitions and hopes and fears.
This is what I believe the X-Men teaches us. But all things aside, the X-Men is an action packed movie that did well and gave the studios the green light to make more superhero movies.