Dissapointment

Rating: 6/10 (5 May 2002)

Bryan Singer shows with this movie that he feels a little embarrased that he has to direct a comic book movie.As a result he has made xmen completely different than the original material of the comic book.First of all the casting is almost all wrong.Ian Mc Kellen as Magnetto is one of the worst choices that could be made.I respect Ian Mc Kelln cause he is truely a great actor but that role simply didn't fit him.Magneto is a powerfull and menacing force and that feeling we never get in this movie,not once.All the actors who play the Xmen are inadequate and are a disgrace to the original material with one exception:Patrick Steward was born to play professor x.The movie feels slow and boring.The action sequences are sparce and boring.The effort to make an antiracist message out of this movie is blown out of proportion and feels quite cheesy.I have to dissagree with the wood,spider man has finally done it right as far as comic origin movies go.Sam Reimi wasn't afraid to make a movie first for the fans of the comic and then for the casual movie audiances unlike Bryan Singer who did the exact opposite.I am really happy that spider man is going to crush xmen at the box office.It's not that Xmen is a bad movie(it's actually a descent one)that bothers me,it's the fact that the director had the most spectacular comic book heroes in his hands and made such a boring and unexciting film out of them.Descent film but much much worse than Spider Man and Batman 1+2.