Not bad, not great either.

Rating: 5/10 (17 July 2000)

I had a lot of hope leading up to this movie. FOX had a 30 minute special on TV to hype the movie, and initially I thought X-MEN was going to be like Street Fighter and be really cheezy. But then seeing some of the clips, I became really impressed. One review said it's better then the MATRIX, which really shot up my expectations. With such high expectations I was a bit let down. The special effects were great, I liked the premise of the story and the story line... but the pace was too casual, and the movie lacked intensity. Storm was pretty useless. Cyclops was too young, and didn't really say anything (when he's supposed to be next in command after Xavier). They seemed to want to touch upon Wolverine's past, and then skipped that part over. Though I was listening to Howard Stern this morning, and they had the Executive Producer on. He was saying they're in talks of working on a sequel.