Very entertaining, but not quite satisfying.

Rating: 8/10 (3 May 2001)

The film was very entertaining, with Hugh Jackman particularly good. Patrick Stewart was very well cast as Prof. X, etc. etc.
But I did feel at the end of the film that the whole adventure didn't amount to much, because the most of the film was taken up introducing the characters and then the whole scene with the Mutant school. This was inevitable, I suppose, because it was necessary to make all the right introduction as a movie separate from the comic books. But I did feel slightly unsatisfied when it finished.
Maybe this was intended, because it seems certain that there will be sequels, but I would have liked to see a slightly longer story.