Kinda stupid but highly entertaining. X-men is a paradox.

Rating: 7/10 (28 April 2003)

This is an intriguing movie.
The adaptation from the X-men series is disrespectful, the script is poor, the production awkward at times... Overall everything is a little stupid.
And surprisingly, all this ends up into a nicely entertaining movie, which leaved me with an impression of quality and dignity. How the hell??
Well it's another demonstration that good direction (Bryan Singer is definitely an excellent filmmaker) with a good cast may compensate for poorly written movies. Think about the line "America was going to be a land of tolerance, of peace" - a stupid "cliche", that would have sounded dumb in many mouths, but then... in Ian McKellen's mouth, it sounds... great. What an actor. And the rest of the cast is brilliant too. With the exception of Hale Berry, portraiting a very little convincing Tornade. This girl is beautiful and very sympathetic, but she simply shouldn't act.
The magic of Singer and his actors' craftsmanship turned into a finally very nice movie what would have been total crap in the hands of some of hollywood filmmakers... Well done!