extremely well done

Rating: Null/10 (30 September 2001)

Mr. Singer did an awesome job. While the movie, X-Men, isn't great, it kept the flavor of the comic I love. First you have to understand the X-Men universe is extremely complicated. He tried to pare it down into understandable characters. No one is going to be happy with that, since we all have different favorites. What he did do, was instead of going for the action adventure, and totally ignoring what made X-Men the favorite it is, he kept the humanity of it. We lost out on some slam-bang action and kept what made the X-Men the beloved comic of our time. The fact that these are people who are different. Who are tormented because of the fact that they aren't like everyone else. God knows, we've all experienced that bigotry, in one form or another. The X-Men stand for all of us. Thank you Mr. Singer. I went to the movie expecting to be disappointed. It's not the great movie I wanted, but it told the tale like it was supposed to be told. Oh, and Jackman didn't 'almost' steal the movie. He stole it and ran away with it. The Wolverine character is the one I really expected to be disappointed in. Instead, he was absolutely perfect. C'mon people. Wolvie has never been a nice guy. He's short, cranky, stubborn, and a warrior. He's also the kind of guy a person could bet their life on, and win. We don't like him cause he's nice. We like him because of his faults!