Finally a Good Summer Movie

Rating: 8/10 (15 July 2000)

For so long audiences have had to put up with alot of crap during the American summer. Eg. Wild Wild West, well basically anything will Will Smith. But finally a movie like X-Men has come along to hopefully show what a big budget studio CAN do if it actually tries to make the movie work effectively, rather than just shove a big name into a bad script and expect $20 million in the first weekend. X Men is different because A. It's well written, with good dialogue and characters you care about B. uses its budget to show special effects that other films are too lazy to show and C. when you walk out of the theater you don't feel ripped off AGAIN! I praise the filmmakers also for allowing people like me who have no idea what X Men was when they entered the cinema to understand where all the characters have come from and to finally enjoy what they can do.