A good debut for the X-Men

Rating: 7/10 (8 January 2020)

The new millenium was when comic book movies were to be taken much more seriously. Blade (which was released in 1998 and even before hand with Tim Burton's Batman films) were good films but it took another film to get viewers and critcs to take the comic book movie seriously. That movie would be X-Men. While not the first depiction of the X-Men ( a spinoff TV movie called Generation X was released in 1996), it is one of the best known. While I have not read the comics, I have a general idea of what the characters should be like. Overall, the characters are pretty good and the actors and actresses are perfect for the roles of the characters. The villan, Magneto (played by Ian McKellen) is not a cliche villain at all which is a huge surprise. But where does the film lack? That would be in special effects. Granted, this was when CG was starting to become better, the CG was not great but not terrible. The plot is a typical taking over the world kind of story. Nothing special there. Which leads to the big picture. This film did set the ground for future films and this film did a good job in doing so.