Very underrated X-Men movie! But starts the franchise off strong!

Rating: 8/10 (24 September 2015)

I am doing a superhero franchise review and it is X-MEN.
In 1994, 20th Century Fox and producer Prawan Singh bought the film rights to the X-Men. Andrew Kevin Walker was hired to write and James Cameron expressed interest in directing. Eventually, Bryan Singer signed on to direct in July 1996. Thought not a fan of the comic-books, Singer was fascinated by the analogies of prejudice and discrimination it offered.
John Logan, Joss Whedon, Ed Solomon, Christopher McQuarrie and David Hayter wrote the script, with Hayter receiving sole credit. Production began in September 1999 in Toronto, Canado and ended in March 2000.
The film was released on July 14, 2000 to positive reviews and critical success and spawned a reemergence of superhero films and it would prove to movie studios that superhero films could succeed.
The film introduces us to Wolverine and Rogue into the conflict between Professor Xavier's X-Men and the Brotherhood of Mutants, led by Magneto. Magneto intends to mutate world leaders at a United Nations summit with a machine he has built, to bring about acceptance of mutant kind, but Xavoer realizes this forced mutation will only result in their deaths.
Hugh Jackman was the perfect choice of Wolverine and this film would lead him into being in the sequels and two spin-offs and other movies including Van Helsing and Prisoners. Patrick Stewart plays Professor X and Ian McKellen plays Magneto and they were also really good casting choices.
Anna Paquin was the perfect choice to play Rogue / Marie and this would lead her into playing in "True Blood" as the main character, which ended in 2014 and my 25-year-old sister watches the show, but I don't. Famke Janssen and the rest of the cast were all cast perfectly in this film as their roles.
The action sequences were amazing and there is less CGI in this film because some of the visual effects are really amazing and this film only had a $75 million dollar budget and I really liked the way this movie turned out and the story is not action-packed, but I will say it is really amazing, but there is just one major flaw: This was 2000 and it did not make me feel any emotion for the characters, except for Wolverine and Rogue.
The musical score is really good and I think Michael Kamen did a really good job with his X-Men theme. But, I like John Ottman's X-MEN theme in the next film.
Overall, I like X-MEN, but the one thing that had me confused is that the story is not action-packed enough and it does not make me feel any emotion for the characters, except for Wolverine and Rogue. X-MEN is the reason why we have superhero films today like Batman Begins, Spider-Man, Iron Man, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, Man of Steel, 300, Blade, Watchmen and of course, both The Avengers and Avengers: Age of Ultron.
8/10.