Quite competent,good,not the best

Rating: 7/10 (6 November 2007)

This film is remarkable for its straightforward narration, its well managed action,and its sense of adventure. The cast numbers several nice women ( Halle Berry,Rebecca Romijn,Famke Janssen).The atmosphere is interesting and the film avoids the useless jokes and parody stuff. The general air of intelligence makes it a respectable movie. Anyway, the script is certainly not the best, and the need is felt for more information (about Stewart's past and about his school for gifted youngsters, etc.). The action needed to be broadened, more things about the world existing outside the mutants' milieu were necessary. The characters aren't particularly interesting, and the plot itself is average (the bad mutants want to take over the world by turning the politicians reunited for a summit into mutants and thus securing a privileged position for the mutants). It didn't seem to me a very thrilling idea; maybe the film didn't serve it very well. The best thing about X-Men (2000) is its approachnot looking like a spoof. Its constructive aim.
I started with a most favorable disposition towards this film, after reading a comment here on IMDb (the comment called "XMen" "the best superhero movie ever"," a good superhero film"). (That comment also exquisitely touched on the three most important things about "XMen": that the two leading characters are the only interesting characters also; that the plot is crap ; that the action demands a knowledge of the comics .) I was a little disappointed with the "XMen", I didn't find the film worthy of any superlative. But it's quite well made.