Lived up to my expectations

Rating: 8/10 (8 May 2002)

I have been an X-Men fan for years now and of course all you ever heard were rumours of a film. I kind of felt sorry for the makers of the film as they would have such a large burden on their shoulders. I have to say that despite the difficulty they carried it off quite well. The casting was perfect as far as I'm concerned. All the actors ranged between good and incredible and special mention must go to Hugh Jackman. I thought he really WAS Wolverine(probably one of the hardest characters to pull off). The film was entertaining and stuck to the true form of the original comic book, changing what was necessary (eg the costumes). The story while nothing special was interesting at the least. One problem was the lack of involvement of a number of the X-Men (Cyclops and Jean Grey don't have much to do in comarison to Wolvie and Storm is simply a background character with like two lines). Al round every single X-Men fan needs to see this (and get the DVD) while non-X-Men fans will be suitably entertained (this film did convert a lot of non-fans into fans).