more then a movie

Rating: 10/10 (14 July 2000)

As the film opens up to a very dark and morbid scene, an Encapsulating atmosphere surrounds the audience into a stunned silence. X men begins, continues and ends with an aphrodisiac that keeps you hooked for a good two hours. I walked into the cinema with extremely high expectations (being a fan) and was surprised that a film I have waited for since its filming status cleanly and easily satisfied me leaving me open mouthed in awe. With Australian Hugh Jackman and New Zealand Academy award winner Anna Paquin I was glad to watch the film not only for the sharp special effects and familiar "abilities" but also for the deeper and darker involvement in want and need for acceptance (Anna Paquin/Rouge) and the pain and agony of a lost past (Hugh Jackman/Wolverine). I especially liked how in first knowing of who the actors were to be portraying and their appearance compared to that of their comic counter parts, the disappointment and uncertainty completely vanished as the actors all of them slid into the age old characters and played the parts with a Rubato that was almost flawless. It is easy to go on and on about a film such as this, only i wanted not to mention the flaws I myself had picked up leaving this only my opinion on how the films success by far exceeds the conventional successful action film, and falls much further beyond that. A pleasure to watch and much more then a "Movie" (referring to the typical Hollywood films of course)