A glowing report!!

Rating: 10/10 (10 September 2000)

"If you see one movie this year...." the old adage has never been more apt than for this brilliant example of action movie making.
Joel Schumacher take note, when you are bringing comic book characters off the page, this is how you do it!
The key elements in this film are realism, keeping the humour to a minimum,(so that it doesn't descend into farce) and a strong band of key characters, led by established actors that know what they are doing. This movie has all of this and more, with Patrick Stewart and Ian Mckellen as the base, and Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, and Anna Paquin making the story come to life. The special effects were amazing, and the naked Mystique kept cinema goers glued to the screen throughout! How they didn't let anything slip was incredible!!
The film is very open for a number of sequals, especially the closing line from Xavier "Wherever you go, we will be right there to stop you... old friend" Bryan Singer, keep it coming, as the other pretenders to the superhero genre have nothing on you!

Neil