Fifteen year wait was well worth it!

Rating: 8/10 (15 July 2000)

I started collecting comic books back in the early '80s. Primarily the X-Men. Around '85 my friends and I got together to try to figure out how they'd make this a movie. We knew then that it couldn't be done. X-Men were Wolverine, Storm, Collossus, Kitty Pryde, and Nightcrawler at the time... We could see the movie industry trying with the special effects they had then and failing miserably. Since then, the makeup of the X-Men has changed - new and old characters joining and leaving. Technology is finally cutting-edge enough to make the mutant abilities believable.
I feared that the producers would make this a special effects and action movie with a script that would only equal the technology of the '80s. I was more than pleased with the results. This is the perhaps the best written script for an action and special effects movie that is intended to be the beginning of a new franchise - introduction to the characters, getting the feel for the group in this version of the Marvel Universe, setting up and resolving an introductory conflict.
I look forward to the next installment. Does Wolverine find the Weapon X laboratory? What does he find there? Will he encounter this Universe's version of Alpha Flight? Which of the other known plot lines will they draw us into in the next movie? I'm hooked!