I've been waiting for this...

Rating: 10/10 (15 July 2000)

As soon as "X-Men" came onto the screen my first reaction was "Whoa". My friends and I were surprised this movie was as good as it was. We were expecting a typical super hero movie like "Batman" or "Superman", What we got was not just a superhero movie but a "movie movie", Meaning it had a great plot and great acting.
James Marsden (Cyclops) was extremely good, You could tell he was really p***ed at Logan but didn't hate him. Halle Berry was awesome, She pulled it off extremely well, And this is coming from a huge Storm fan, I think she was great and I want more of her in the sequels. Tyler Mane (Sabertooth) was simply a bad ass, He was simply oozing, "badass". "Scream for me" was one of my favorite lines in the movie. Toad was awesome, I was expecting him to just be this stupid little sidekick, but he was extremely cool. Mystique is the only character I didn't like, I really thought she was playing second fiddle the entire time. A lot of people think she's sexy but she's just disgusting.
Patrick Stewart is Xavier, he was born to play that role, the same goes for Ian McKellan as Magneto. Throughout the entire movie I kind of felt sorry for Magneto, from the Holocaust scene to the fact that he didn't know his machine would kill people. Hugh Jackman is Wolverine, no one else would have been this cool. He played the part Canadian which was very good. Famke Janssen was a very good Jean Grey, I could feel her and Marsden's chemistry when they were on screen together, you could tell they were in love.
The special effects are very effective, pardon the pun, they weren't like in the matrix, which I hate, The effects were good because they were only used when necessary not like in the matrix when they'd use slow-motion to show someone eating a potato chip. Lastly, Anna Paquin was a very convincing Rogue, her accent was great, as well as her acting.
In the end this movie makes you want only one thing...A sequel. If they can make the Sentinels look good, I mean really bad ass, it will rock! I give this movie an a 10 out of 10.