The best comic adaptation in years

Rating: 10/10 (24 October 2000)

When I first heard about X-Men I wasn't surprised that Hollywood will make another trash just to get some money, but when I heard some people saying (my friends,neighbors, etc.) that it's a good movie and I should watch it in the cinema as it has very good special effects. So I watched it and I liked it very much. Before I watched the movie the only thing I knew about X-Men that it's a comic series as well as a cartoon and it didn't fascinate me very much till I watched it and it made me almost a X-Men freak. It has a mysterious start introducing the past of the bad guy and the other characters and their abilities. Whoever wrote the screen play he can have a good mark for making such an elaborate character description. The plot is quite good but has an impossible part i.e. genetic mutation every hundred years (or may be I misunderstood this part) but not counting this little 'mistake' the plot is acceptable actually better than M:I-2's. The movie 'asks' a few questions at the beginning and leaves them not answered at the end and it made me to feel quite puzzled, but may be the screenwriter and the producer thought of a/some sequel(s) for this movie and they will 'answer' in the sequel(s). It has stunning special effects that almost made my eyes fall out of their place. It was very astonishing to watch our heroes and villains using their special powers to fight with each other. The action sequences where also good but not as good as Matrix's, but we don't have to compare every movie to the best one in the genre. I could see that the director tried to reach that level by making a few 'slow-mo' effects and some good camera angles. The action sequences were quite short for me as I suspected better, like the Matrix. But the Matrix is a different situation and that is X-Men is a comic adaptation and Matrix is a cyber/sci-fi/action copying a few from its ancestors while X-men only from the comics and the cartoons. I have watched all the Batman and Superman movies made till now and i think X-Men is the best one among them. I can bravely suggest to anyone to watch this movie at least once and I promise that those who watch it won't make a mistake. Briefly this movie is exciting, spectacular and a 100% action movie (may be the best one along with the Matrix).