good but overrated (contains spoilers)

Rating: Null/10 (3 December 2000)

X-men was pretty good. Watching mutants fight each other using their different powers is of course fun to watch, but it`s little more than an eye candy super hero popcorn flick, not something to stimulate the intellect, like others have said. Here are complaints:
1. The acting has problems. Anna Paquin (who plays Rogue) constantly seems to have something large in her throat which means that she keeps gulping and gagging and distorting her voice. Famke Janssen, Halle Berry, and James Marsden were all wooden, and did not portray their characters too well. Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellan, and Hugh Jackman were pretty good, though.
2. Lack of plot. The movie is little more than a preview of things to come, while trying to put in a subplot of Magneto turning people into blobs after mutantinizing them.
3. Character Development. Very little except for Wolverine and Rogue.
4. The way the movie jumps from one thing to another without much flow.
The good things:
1. The action! Very cool, with special effects on maximum. Wolverine against Mystique was great. But Storm giving Toad that dumb "do you know what happens..." line was the worst.
2. Wolverine`s mystery. Obviously something to keep people watching, and something we`ll want light shed into in the next few movies.
I`ll be waiting for the sequel, hopefully it`ll be better. I give this a 7.