good, but overrated

Rating: Null/10 (2 December 2000)

I hear people saying that this is a movie that will intellectually stimulate them, and all these great things. Now, it`s a fun movie to watch (mutants exercising their powers on each other), but it`s really just a superhero movie that rushes from one thing to another with little flow to it. The plot is, a mutant named Rogue runs away from her house after finding out that whenever she touches someone she takes away their energy. She meets Wolverine, some mysterious character who has knives that come out of his hands and instant healing. They get rescued by Storm and Cyclops from Sabretooth, and then they meet Dr. Xavier who put Rogue in his school and Wolverine joins the "Team". Anna Paquin who plays Rogue seems to constantly have a huge gob of mucus in her throat, which means that she keeps gulping and distorting her voice. Wolverine is too mysterious to connect with, but Hugh Jackman did a good job playing him. Cyclops and Jean Grey`s romance was pretty strange since Jean Gray is old enough to be his mother. Patrick Stewart was okay, but he and Magneto did not really generate their characters well. The sfx were good, but it was mostly just a preview with a little subplot to show fights, which were pretty good. I give this movie a 7.5