X is for X-cellent!

Rating: 9/10 (9 August 2000)

I'm pretty hard to please, tend to favor art films, snub the most popular stuff, and in general am just hard to live with when it comes to films. But I saw X-Men today and wished it had been twice as long! I'd be happy to see it again soon. I'd heard about the special effects but you have to see them to appreciate them. The acting was uniformly excellent, casting superb, and, most miraculous of all, there was actually a story worth paying attention to, and which furnishes food for thought! An action film that involves the viewer's brain -- too good to be true? Not if the film is X-Men. Go see it! It may be awhile before another movie this good comes along.