Truly awesome X-Men coming to life

Rating: 9/10 (6 October 2005)

This is one of the few movies that I paid twice to go see it for the second time in the theaters.
I remember being riveted to the screen from the first scene Magneto as a child in concentration camp bend the steel gate out of its shape all the way to the end of the movie. It was that exiting. It sound's weired but I've felt a strange kinship to the mutants when I was watching the movie. The story just sucked me in and made me feel that close to the characters. Now that's good story telling.
The casting was perfect. Each character was represented faithfully. It sent shivers up my spine when I saw Cyclops and Storm appear for the first time in the scene. They looked awesome. You have to keep in mind that many of the casts in this movie were little known until they've made it big in this movie, and it takes someone with an eye to recruit all these talents to create a believable X-Men.
Bryan Singer said he had little regret about how the movie came out because he was rushed to make it for the 2000 summer release, but anyone who can manage $75M and turn it into a celluloid gold like this gotta have some talent. First time is always the hardest, and he did a crazy good job in my opinion.
I'm giving this movie a 9 only because I gave 10 to X2 which I felt had better attention to the props, but I would have happily given it a 10 if it wasn't compared to anything else.
A landmark epic in cinema history if you ask me.