A pleasant surprise

Rating: 8/10 (15 July 2000)

I went in to this movie wanting to like it but after movies like Battlefield Earth and Mission Impossible 2 I thought Hollywood would spoil another good thing. Luckily it didnt although I would like to know what fottage they supposedly cut to reduce it to less than 2 hours. I liked the movie and it was well acted and the special effects didnt take presidence over the story like a certain Star Wars Movie from last summer. I left the theatre wanting more. I only wish we could have found out more of the characters pasts and alittle more team effort instead of Wolverine and Rogue getting most of the screen time. I wanted more of Storm and Cyclops and more scenes with Xaviar and Magneto. Perhaps in the next one. Hats off to Brian Singer for giving us an intelligent action film;something we dont see much of anymore.