The best Comic book adaption of all time!

Rating: 8/10 (5 January 2002)

Comparing it to other Comic book adaption movies, this one rises high above them all. I mean, Batman? (and its 3 sequels) and superman? (and it's 4 sequels) There were very corny movies that completely abandoned their original comics, Though superman was close. But now X-men has come in that category and blows the other all away! It has excellent directing and cast of characters, though some of the acting was weak, but for the most part ignorable. The Special effects weren't by far the best, but were not horrible either, and the storyline was also good.
Now the big question: is it close to the comic book. Well....being a fan of X-men and a retired comic collector, im naturally picky, and some details were not done right. Wolverine's claws only come out when he's angry, well if it was true to the book, He's ALWAYS angry, and therefore his claws should be constantly out! Also, Storms eyes flushed white when she conjured up her powers, but her eyes were always flushed in the comic books. That's why in all of her disguises, she always wore contact lenses and sunglasses, to hide her eyes. But besides that, they did get most of the details down.	And then there were some things I was very disappointing in. For one, Toad was far to helpless and unimportant to the story. Not to mention, they had Ray Park playing this part and they did nothing with his talent! very upsetting. Second, The ending was disappointing. While it was setup for a sequel, it made the whole movie feel very unfinished. I think they should of thrown that whole news report at the end in one of the first scene's in the upcoming sequel, instead of making it seem as if the heros never fully accomplished their task. Third, they spent most of the time enhancing Wolverine and Rouge's characters and didn't do much with the rest of the cast. Most notably with Jean Grey, sure she healed everybody, and yeah, she had Wolverines heart pittering-paddering for her, but she used her powers maybe, what, twice? she (along with Cyclops and Gambit) was my favorite character from the book, and she didn't do as much as she could of. Storm and Cyclops were well done, The actors playing them (Halle Berry, James Marsden) were well casted, but the most Impressive casted characters were Wolverine and Professor X (Hugh Jackmon and Patrick Stewart). No one in the universe could of been better for the part. Ian McKellan was by far the best actor (as always), but he didn't seem like Megneato to me...

Overall, very good movie, not for children though. Crude language, very violent and not to mention Mistique wears only three scales away from making the whole film R, which is a shame, because the cartoon series and a lot of the comic books were written for kids. But, still a great movie, easily picked apart by die hard fans, but what did you expect? This by far the best comic adaption (though it's looking like the upcoming movie, Spiderman is going to match it...) Can't wait for the sequel. 8/10