What's left of the old(comic book) X-Men?

Rating: 6/10 (6 December 2000)

I didn't really know what to expect from this movie. Would it be as violent and bloody as the original X-men comic books, or would it be as soft as the TV cartoons? It turned out to be somewhere in the middle. There is some real violence in the movie and Wolverine does use his claws(come on he doesn't really have them just to open doors, now does he?) several times. It may sound weird, but I would have liked the movie to be little bit more violent, a bit more like the original comics. What I especially miss is the dark feeling the original comics gave(but that also goes for Batman, Spiderman, the Hulk, etc.). My problems with the movie are that it's really full of cliche's and therefore really predictable.
Example(*SPOILER*): The way Wolverine is introduced in the movie. First he is shown beating a guy in a cage fight(shows how tough he really is), but then when the little girl sneaks along in his van, he first kicks her out(he's stubborn), but then takes her along(heart of gold).
The other problem is that the movie really focuses on the fact that there might be a sequel. Did you see any of the bad guys really die in the end? No, Magneto is locked up, Mystique still lives(video footage) and Toad and Sabertooth are simply blown into the bay(a thing which Toad especially should be able to survive since he's half amphibian). The end is completely spoiled by this sequel thing. I think it's a pretty lame movie, considering what great material they had to create a script with...