Feels "flat"

Rating: Null/10 (20 May 2003)

Worth seeing just for the incredible opening sequence with Nightcrawler in the White House...otherwise... ...this "superhero" movie failed for me for several reasons:
1 - it's all set in warehouses and underground complexes...there's no "city feeling" (like Spider-Man, Batman etc). No civilians to save or interact with (the first X-Men movie had this a bit). 2 - mutants are 2-dimensional (Wolverine is moody and grunts, guy with shades moans a lot, Jean Grey is just a "nice" person, Storm is "caring", Professor X is Captain Picard) 3 - the action/fight sequences suffer from choppy MTV-style editing (like Lord of the Rings) - don't sit near the front or you'll feel ill by the end. The camera shakes and chops every second. 4 - two huge plot holes I've described below (to avoid spoilers)
Spider-Man was far more enjoyable. This one wants to be an epic on the scale of Star Wars, but feels like you're on a set. There's no feeling of wonder or scale. The first X-Men movie was better - seeing how the humans react to the mutants.
Roll on Hulk!
If you've seen X-Men 2, here are the two plot holes I noticed:

**SPOILERS**

a) When Jean-Grey sacrifices herself for the team. Nightcrawler blatantly could have teleported out, grabbed her, teleported back into the ship. But when asked to do this, he replied with a really duff line: "She won't let me," - and Wolverine was like, "Oh, okay, then." He should have nagged him a bit more!
b) This was a biggie. Wheelchair-bound Jason (son of Stryker) is a mutant. So when Professor X is concentrating on "all mutants", it should have affected Jason as well! It was loop-back feed and would have destroyed him too. And if you argue that Jason was not a mutant, he was human, then he should have been affected when Professor X was "switched" by Magneto to think of "all humans" instead. Perhaps the X-Men devotees will correct me on this somehow?