A balanced summer pleasure

Rating: 10/10 (18 July 2000)

I have 15 years of X-men comic books at home, so my expectations of this movie were high, and I wasn't dissapointed. Yes there are things I might like to be different, but this movie had to create balance between what comic book fans insist upon and what strangers to this comic universe need to understand it. And it acheives that goal admirably, hitting all the big points the comic book strives for while making it accessible for those whose who've never heard of wolverine.
Might greatest hope is that in the sequel Storm, my favorite character, has a more central role.