X-men the Movie needs to mutate into something better.

Rating: 1/10 (21 April 2003)

The X-men had the potential to be a great film but it wasn't. FOX budgeted 75 mil for this film and Singer was able to produce detailed sets, hire decent actors, and have great special effects in this movie for that money amount.
My first grievence of this film is lack of plot. The movie utimately spends more time introducing characters than advancing the plot. I agree character introduction is important for the non-fans of the x-men comics but SInger should refer to other comic-to-film movies like Batman(1989) for how to introduce a character and still have an abudence of plot.
This leads to my second grievence the lack of quality even when a plot was present. (A few minor spoilers) Wolverine crashes through his car and immediately gets up and heals but later when he is hit by a log he is out cold for hours until he arrives back at the mansion. Since the focus of this movie is on Wolverine he shouldnt have big plot discontinueties. The protaganist of the story was Magneto, a good choice for a first movie, but his method of "evil" was a doomsday device that would turn the world's population to mutants. Wow that is hoaky. If you want to use a doomsday device in your movie watch Star Wars and pay attention to the Death Star scenes.
My final grievence comes from knowing a little about the comics. (Some major spoilers) Why is Wolverine getting beat up by Sabertooth without putting up a fight? Rouge has had her story line completely changed? Why is Jean Grey so old? You never get the sense of Magneto's power and that he only spares the X-men out of respect for Xavier. Although Mystic can fight, she is generally outclassed by all of the X-men and avoids physicall conflict with them. She uses her cunning to foil the X-men. Why is Iceman, one of the original members of the X-men, just a kid? Maybe this one is just me, but Wolverine seems calm and rational, it doesnt feel like Wolverine.