Just bliss for X-Men fans

Rating: Null/10 (14 July 2000)

I have just spent the last one hundred minutes in total bliss. I have just come out from watching the X-Men movie, and it has at last proven to me that to make a good comic book film takes a major company to employ a very good director to direct exceptional actors, who take their profession serious enough to make it feel like you've known their world all of your life.
As you've probably guessed, I am a big X-Men fan and have been for the last twenty-five years. I have watched the development of characters within the books, Watched members die and seen new members born. Seen brother fights their own brother and even their own father, I have felt their pain and joy, and as a family they have become part of my life.
When I first heard that they where about to make this movie, the first thought that came to mind was the original series of spider-man films then I remembered the last comic book hero that I had seen in films of which I enjoyed watching which was Batman. Things just had to get better. Today was the day that things would change for better or for worse, today was the day I got to see people that I have known most of my life in the flesh. Dying with anticipation I arrived at the cinema took my seat then waited. There was not much wrong with the film apart from the obvious differences in age with some of the major and minor characters, and the obvious lack of stronger personalities, it was just great to see people that you could feel for, feelings either of warmth or disdain. I am not going to mention scenes from the film as I urge all to see for themselves, all I can say is thank you Bryan Singer for making the world of the X-men real for the rest of the world. Roll on X-Men 2