AWFUL. AVOID. Spoilers

Rating: Null/10 (14 July 2000)

Well it was better than Battlefield Earth, I will give it that. First off it should have been called Wolverine (in big letters) and the X-men (in small letters off to the side). The whole movie focus's on Wolverine and Rouge. The flash-backs to Wolverine's past seem like just an excuse to make a sequel later. The rest of the team is just there as an excuse for some FX. The villains don't really do anything either. They fight with the X-men now and then but don't really do anything. Then Toad and Mystique kick all of the X-men's asses by themselves. HUH?? Storm just sits and gets her butt kicked twice and only seems to use her powers at just the right time and when that is all that will save everyone. Same with Cyclops and Jean. Speaking of Jean she is a TK yet outside of a few useless times she never uses her power. There is more than one time where she could end the fight and win the day if she used her TK but she just sits there whining. The pointless cameos are annoying as well. Kitty, Pyro, Iceman and others are there for no reason other than to be there. I don't know where I should start in pointing out the many, many moronic "plot" details and problems. First the mutant making machine. What the hell is that? Magneto has a machine that can make a human into a mutant. F***ing stupid. I also guess that being stuck in a mutant making battery and dying turns some (not all) of your hair white. When Mystique changes form the CGI people have no idea what mass is. She is sneaking into a the X-mansion as a young boy and when she changes back to her she doesn't change size, height or anything. In the comics she could also NEVER have kicked the crap out of Wolverine but seems to do it with barely any effort here. Sabertooth is just a big, hairy bum. Toad is just annoying and really stupid. The fights are so overblown and over the top that they are funny to watch. Every time someone gets hit they go flying back (or up) as if there was a stagehand off camera pulling them. There is no logic shown in the movie by any of the characters and especially not by the cops. I can't explain it but when you see the scene with the cops you will end up beating your head against the wall at how dumb it is. Next the FX. Some look good and others (like Mystique's transformation) are such obvious CGI layovers they look ridiculous. The sets look like something stolen from a James Bond film. Come on there is NO way you could sub-contract out the work needed to build these complexes and keep it a secret (and not cost billions of dollars). The dialog was awful and was really forced. The performances where either bad or average and the "Plot" twists can be seen 10 minutes before they happen. Now the fact that none of the characters even come close to their comic counter-parts is something I was willing to over look but these are so far off it is blasphemous. This is yet in a long line of awful comic movies and is up there with Batman and Robin and Superman 4. Avoid at all costs. At least I got to see the trailer for Highlander: Endgame.