too few scenes with the nude blue chick

Rating: 9/10 (30 July 2000)

`X-Men'. ****. (2000, USA, PG-13, 104 min Directed by Bryan Singer [The Usual Suspects, Apt Pupil] staring Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen and a host of others). The time is now and mutants are being born on earth. Most appear human, they are human expect for the X factor. The X factor may manifest itself in many ways: Wolverine is capable of almost instant healing ability, Xavier reads minds, and Magneto is a magnet. You'll have to see the movie or read the comic book to understand all the possible mutations that can or have occurred. But as the movie starts, humans (the one's without an X factor) are preparing to register all mutants. They don't want them teaching in the schools or controlling our minds. `People need to know what mutants can do.' But to make a movie the mutants are of two camps; those that want to live in harmony with non-Xers and those who want to use the X-factor to kick some butt. Xavier (Stewart) is the be-kind-to-humans Xer and Magneto (McKellen) is the Xers-will-rule mutant. After a lot of fights, some really cool special effects, some humor and too few scenes with the nude blue chick; the movie ends. Not really, the producers just want us to go back outside and pay to see X-men II. I can't wait.