Good movie, but could have been better

Rating: 8/10 (24 June 2003)

I give this movie an 8. I give it credit for being the first movie to get the public into comic book movies again. What about Batman? Batman was followed up by a string of such lousy sequels, I think it the whole franchise eventually annoyed people and it wound up hurting the genre rather than helping it. X-men made these movies fun again.
I think it was a good movie, but it was a little bit too short and I still wish they didn't have a generation gap between characters that isn't supposed to exist. The whole concept of having a machine that makes mutants was a little silly too.
The good points of this movie far outweigh the bad and there is a lot of great acting. Hugh Jackman was born to play Wolverine. I am looking forward to seeing more of these movies in the future and will be one of the first people in line for the 3rd x-men movie.