So much promise, yet so huge a mess.

Rating: Null/10 (4 August 2000)

What I saw, for the most part, was plot holes and cheese... lots of cheese. For example, I've never heard of people making such a big deal over "mutants" before (and chances are I won't in the near future either). It was made to seem like it is all common place, which, of course, it isn't.
Apparently, a lot of things in this movie are supposed to be commonplace. Mutants just walk around in train stations and bars in full garb and weaponry, yet no one seems to notice? Is this really commonplace, too? If I saw someone walking around wearing flowing robes or "nightvisionesque" looking goggles, I would take a second glance, but not because they were "mutants". If all "mutants" feel like outcasts, why don't you just put on some pants and a t-shirt. Maybe then no one will notice.
Perhaps I missed something because I never read any of the comic books. However, I've never read the Superman comics, The Crow means more to me than it ever could on paper, and I haven't even seen Men In Black on the magazine shelf, yet I loved all those movies. Even incarnations of Batman, whether it is a live-action movie (like the first one) or a cartoon movie (Batman: Mask of the Phantasm) are better than this attempt at X-Men.
There was so much promise, but it fell short of immortality... even for a mutant.