More action and less sweetness would go a long way.

Rating: 7/10 (20 July 2000)

Unfortunately X-MEN suffers from the same fault that all comic book movies suffer from and that is the dreaded origin plot line. Just once I would want to see something that begins its story some ten years into the super-heroes lives.
Having said that, I will say that there is hope and lots of it for future sequels, where these characters will be already defined and we all can get down to some serious action, which there is not nearly enough here.
Also there seems to be an abundance of sweetness. Rouge is sweet, her classmates are sweet, hell, even Wolverine is sweet, Wolverine? Isn't he a maniacal, deranged, psychopath? YES HE IS. But not here. (for future consideration)
My final vote is a generous 7.