An okay start, hopefully sequel will liven things up

Rating: Null/10 (28 April 2003)

I was satisfied when I saw X-men, I was expecting more but was satisfied with this first live action film. Just for once I wish they would just say to hell with it and make it a rated R flick like it should be. Why because most of the time PG-13 action can get rather boring. For example, when Wolverine fought Mystique(the longest fight in the entire movie), it didn't have that impact as in the comics but the sequences appeared rather slow and dull. It's disappointing of how they misrepresented Wolverine who in the comic long before he even met the X-men was a warrior and assassin but in the movie as a weak untrained fool. The movie started out pretty interesting then it dragged, and the ending wasn't that great either. I think they should've stuck to the original comic team of Cyclops, Beast, Archangel, Jean Grey, Iceman, and Wolverine. Better to have the original instead of nitpicking and trying to fit in characters who don't even belong in the same place and era like for example Rogue who happens to look like a teenager! Also Sir Ian M. is a little too old to be playing Magneto. I just hope the sequel will be a major step up with longer more intense fight sequences and less boring chit chat. 6 out of 10.