the best since Batman (i mean only the 1st) SPOILERS

Rating: 8/10 (24 July 2000)

so many factors go into whether one likes a movie or not, and some don't have anything to do with the movie. in this case, the audience i happened to be with made all the difference. they clapped and cheered and made a few cheesy lines sound suddenly deep, and that helped me alot. not that the movie wasn't good on its own. it was great, faithful to the themes of the comic and full of clever action. but since i liked it i will focus on my few criticisms. ok, comic plots are often cheesy, but i don't remember any x-men plots being as simplistic and un-directed as the one surrounding magneto's plan. turn humans into mutants with a white glowing field of energy? please, couldn't we come up with something a little more credible? i don't it needed to be a "save the world" plot, especially when the rest of the movie seemed so much an introduction to the characters. i think maybe a cooler plotline would be him going to sink some nuclear submarines (which really happened in the comic and was always a real keystone memory for magneto). anyways, what else? oh, halle berry sucked big time. sorry, but it's true. oh, and too many things were covered in too little time. i thought the movie could've been a lot longer, but maybe younger people would have gotten restless. who knows. i thought the first part of the movie was the best, introducing magneto and wolverine and stuff, but once the it became a "let's stop magneto and bad guys et al. from shooting their giant white ray" it fell apart a bit. anyways, wolverine was awesome and so were magneto and prof. x. in fact, everyone was real good except for storm. maybe she'll die early in the sequel...no, i doubt it. anyways, bravo over all. 8/10