Nonstop action, but I wish it had slowed down just a bit.

Rating: 6/10 (25 July 2000)

The special effects were amazing and the movie was exciting from beginning to end, but I never found out what these mutants were all fighting for...There's obviously a lot going on beneath the surface between Professor X and Magneto - this is the central conflict in the original comic books, but this movie chooses not to delve in there at all. Instead, it sticks with its laser blasts and shapeshifting. There is a brief attempt to convince us to sympathize with Wolverine, but that ends up being too rushed and too shrouded in mystery to make any sense to anybody.
With its arsenal of fine actors, X-Men could've paused a second to let someone say something meaningful. I don't think I was allowed to blink for the full 104 minutes. Visually stunning and very entertaining, but it could have been more of a movie and less of a laser-light show...Hopefully they're planning to follow in the footsteps to make X2:Judgment Day - well, you get my drift.