well put together movie

Rating: 10/10 (26 July 2000)

Ok, as a casual fan of the comics (I knew quite a bit about the characters beforehand), I was really excited about the movie, yet I was afraid of a "Batman and Robin"-type failure. Fortunately, the movie was great. Magneto was portrayed not as necessarily evil, just as a guy with a different approach to a situation, more along the lines of a Machiavelli. The friendship that exists between Prof. X and Magneto was not given much background, but it was shown that they respected one another in the present based on the past. Wolverine was well-played, I don't know if anyone could have brought Wolverine to life as well. Stewart and McKellan were both very good, and so were the supporting cast. I anxiously await the sequel, and I hope Bryan Singer is behind the camera again. 10/10