Not terrible, but not very good either

Rating: 4/10 (17 July 2000)

Maybe I just didn't get it because I've never read the comic, but this movie did very little for me.
If I go see a special effects/futuristic action-type movie, I expect for my senses to be overwhelmed at several points during the movie and the action to cause my heart to rush at times. X-Men did neither for me. Some of the effects were interesting, but the action was generally so slow and fairly predictable that it just wasn't very interesting from that standpoint.
The movie still had a chance for me if it had an interesting story. But the storyline was very simple and plain with no major twists or turns or surprises. There was no "good guy decides to become a bad guy, then changes his mind at the last minute" type of stuff at all. It was a pretty boring story overall.
They also started to explore this whole love interest thing between wolverine and one of the female X-Men who was already spoken for, but that never went anywhere and had no impact on the story whatsoever---I was perplexed at the end of the movie as to why any of that was in there...I just didn't get that at all.
Sorry to all the big fans, but as a movie, I can't recommend X-Men.