More Pathos than action

Rating: 8/10 (2 August 2000)

Being a comic-book fan, I have never been caught in the "trappings" of the X-Men fanaticism, but have been left to enjoy a story of theirs on occasion, putting me in a position of being a less critical judge of the movie and it's character rendition than many others. In a nut-shell, everyone did a fine job portraying their designated characters, the specials were very good (but when aren't they?), the action was quality stuff, etc. So what's my beef? Rogue dragged the movie down. Did Anna Paquin have a special deal with Fox or something? I enjoyed the synergy between Rogue and Logan in the beginning but it wore thin a little too quickly. W/O giving away the story, I just want to finish by saying that there must have been some other feasible way for Magneto to make his point or seek his revenge than beating an otherwise tired character to death.