Great for fans and non-fans alike

Rating: 10/10 (17 July 2000)

As a longtime reader of the X-Men comics, I was having doubts about how well it could be made into a movie, especially considering the long chain of crappy comic book movies that preceded it (Batman 2-4, Superman 2-?, Captain America, Blade...need I go on?) But now that I've seen it, I hope that Bryan Singer comes back, because he made one hell of a cool movie. X-MEN was well written, very true to the comics-even making some character improvements (Toad, for example, is much better in the movie than he ever was in the comics.) X-Men was very well cast, especially Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellan, Tyler Mane (a perfect Sabretooth), Ray Park, and Hugh Jackman. Once I saw that lump of crap known as MI: 2, I was so very happy that Dougray Scott didn't play Wolverine. They would've had to change his name to 'Ferret'. The special effects were fantastic, and at the same time not so overwhelming that they took over the movie. Without a doubt, this movie is a drama with great characters and plenty of history to back it up. All in all, congratulations should go out to the entire cast and crew of X-MEN for making the first comic book movie since Batman that didn't insult the history behind it. Let's just hope that Marvel can keep this in mind when they go to make Spider-Man and the soon-to-be endless chain of comic movies soon to come.