Remember Spawn?

Rating: 3/10 (11 December 2000)

Spawn is a dark and humorous comic book that totally rocks. The film contains none of the pathos, imagination or spirit that the comic book had. Its main fault is that it was toned down for a young audience and had to many CGI FX.
X-Men suffers from exactly the same problem. There is VERY, VERY little or action and what little there is is very tame and stolen from other movies (Matrix, T2). Nothing much happens for long periods of time, the dialogue is nothing but mumbo-jumbo and there are plot holes all over the place. Professor X can sense the presence of mutants from far away but cannot notice a bad mutant walking all over his house. Duh!
The ending was ridiculous. It was completely senseless and did not impress me one iota. The word 'contrivance' echoed around in my head. If the whole scene had been set on the roof of a supermarket instead of the Statue of Libertywould it be cool? Of course the reason it IS on the big statue is because Magneto wants to turn a bunch of people into mutants with what looks like a giant whisk. Uhyeahthat's inspired.
Anna Paquin was competent enough, Jackman was pretty cool, Stewart was Picardish, Jansen was underused, McKellen was campy as hell and James Marsden was as woodenly wooden as he was in Gossip and Disturbing Behavior. Thank Mother Nature he only had about 2 lines of dialogue.
I cannot think of any reason why this trash is in the IMDb top 250. It stinks. Perhaps fans of the comic book, who were so disappointed with the film, gave it 10/10 because they felt they owed it to the X-Men. Me? I just wasted my money.