Best comic book adaptation Ive seen

Rating: 10/10 (2 December 2000)

This was a very well done film. As a comic book afficionado for years, I was excited when I heard the X-men were coming to the big screen. However, I had reservations about how the general, non comic-book reading public would take to it. As is obvious by the success of the film, my fears were for naught. They did an excellent job of preserving the feel of the characters from the comics without making them too cartoony for a serious movie.
The plot development was well done, also. Starting in the concentration camps made it easy to see how Magneto got set onto his path. Many times, cartoon/comic-book villains are needlessly over-dramatic. This wasnt the case with this Magneto. You could even sympathize with his cause, although his lack of respect for human life made it easy to cheer when he was defeated. Focusing on Wolverine/Rogue also provided a nice continuity to the film that would otherwise have been absent. The film-makers did an excellent job of portraying Logan and keeping the character as true as possible to his comic book version.