One of the weakest Super Hero Movies

Rating: 6/10 (8 June 2001)

A good Director and good Actors, even Oscar Winners, cannot help this weak plot. I find it almost boring. I just watched it for a second time on DVD, and I had difficulties finishing it (which hardly ever happens even with movies I have seen lots of times...).
There is absolutely nothing special about this movie, even the last Batman sequel was more entertaining. I was told this is the first in a series, and special care was taken to build up all the individual characters. What characters? Except Wolverine and Mystique, who have some depth and are admittedly cool, all the other superheroes are pathetic (Cyclops, Storm), or just ridiculous (Toad). Even Mr Xavier himself is not much of a superhero, and Patrick Stewart bends backwards to give him some life. Waste of an actor!
The story line is utterly predictable, silly, and one more time a waste of resources, like so many other movie versions of comic heroes. (Why not just take some of the original comic story lines and turn them into a movie. Frank Miller's Return of the Dark Knight outclasses the combined production of all the screenplays for the Batman movies. Where is the daring genius to turn Neil Gaiman's Sandman into a decent movie?)
I like comics, I like movies, and sometimes I like them both put together, but X men is one of these movies I would like to unwatch and get back my money, and more important my time.