Mediocre at Best..

Rating: 6/10 (26 July 2000)

How come every summer blockbuster has to be plagued with an awful script? Summer after summer, action packed blockbusters get better and better as far as visual effects and sound go, and worse and worse in the diologue and realism categoty. T2, Jurassic Park, ID-4, Men In Black, Armageddon, Star Wars Ep.1, X-Men. That is what I mean. Those of you reading this have probably seen X-men, and those of you who haven't know the details(plot, characters, etc.) from reading other reviews, so I'm going to skip that part. I'll just tell you why X-Men will eventually fall into the same category with ID-4 and Armageddon. As of July 26, 2000, X-Men is in the IMDb top 250, and it average vote is about 8.3 or so. When Episode 1 came out, it was in the top 30 movies of all time, and as time passed, the majority spoke and realized that it sucked. Badly. The same will happen to X-Men, so don't be fooled by the good reviews you see. Oh, and while were talking about Episode 1, let me just say that Jar-Jar has just been overtaken as "most annoying character ever" by Toad-played by the same who played Darth Maul-small world, eh? Toad is awful. Toad is worse than awful. I can only imagine that Singer(the director) put this character in to appeal to 5 year olds, though I'm sure most 5 year olds were rolling their eyes too at this corny jack-ass dancing around like a clown on screen (you'll know what I'm talking about when you see it). The story is far-fetched, but fine. I have no problem with imagination as long as it is done right, and X-Men does a good job explaining mutants, etc., even though it is a pretty ridiculous plot. It explains it enough to where you can forget about the problems with it, accept that there are mutants, and enjoy what they are doing on screen. Aside from 1 or 2, the characters are fine, the story is acceptable and to tell you the truth, they set it up well at the end for the imminent sequels. But, the script is too cliche' and actually takes away from what could have been a very good film. I wont discourage people from seeing it, afterall, we sat through basically the same stuff the past few summers, and probably will do it again in '01. I KNOW I will see even greater visuals, and I HOPE that the dialogue and realism stars moving in that direction as well...