for me, the third best super-heroes comic-book adaptation at this time

Rating: 9/10 (2 May 2003)

As a very long-time fan of super-heroes, I had always dreamed of this moving experiments. I enjoyed TV-series like Wonder-woman, Hulk or even the terrible batman. Then came Tim Burton's Batman : the first one was not bad, but I don't like it a lot. The second one (staring Michelle Pfeiffer as catwoman) was a great movie, it is the one I considere as the best super-heroes movie. Some years later came Xmen, the first one, and a not-too-bad movie : the chronology of the uncanny Xmen comics was not right at all (Iceberg, one of the 60's Xmen is a kid besides Tornado, who is one of the 80's stories, for instance), the dressing was black leather instead of the bright costumes of the originals (remember wolverine, blue and yellow), but it was okay, it was not ignorants choices but clever ones : all of the comic book can not stay same in the movie. The script was bad, because of its purpose : explaining quickly what are the mutants, showing a few characters and exploiting some of Chris Claremont most famous comics stories (like "god creates, man destroy"). Lots of the Xmen 1 scenes were very dark : night costs less to shoot. Then came Spiderman : great actors, good and respectuous script, a not very good green goblin (but with a good actor), a great costume... A very good movie, my second favourite adaptation. We can forget Spawn, Daredevil, The Shadow... All that is enjoyable to watch on a rainy day, but they aren't masterpieces. Xmen 2 is my 3rd favourite of the superheroes kind. It has all the qualities of the first Xmen, but it has other things. It is more desperate and more cynical (the president sends the army on the mutants but warns "don't show kids killed on primetime"), the line between the good ones and the bad ones is thinner than ever (the reaction of bobby drake's family is a good example : you are supposed to love your family, but what happens when your family refuses what you are ?). A very more mature movie, a good one. I now can't stand waiting for Ang Lee's Hulk !